Changes to 1st Grade

I'm giving The Well-trained Mind a trial run week with the 1st grader.  Throughout the day, he's crying and interrupting the high schoolers' school time.  He's begging to do the high schoolers' chemistry and physics labs.  A couple of days ago, he was climbing all over the kitchen island while the girls were trying to do their Chromatography lab.  Yesterday, he cried because the 9th grader was working with Python and well, he wanted to program with Python, too.  *rolling my eyes*

I am basically tripling his school, which I've never had to do with a kid before.  He seems to need more structure and more challenge.

This is a great thing about homeschooling - you can try new things and adjust their workload to meet the needs of your child.

I've put together a curriculum based off The Well-Trained Mind 1st grade/Grammar Stage.  It was the most structured method of homeschooling that I could think of.  

3 Daily Subjects

• Language
• Read-aloud and a Reader
• All About Spelling
• First Language Lessons 1
• Writing
• Copywork (1-2x per week)
• Writing letters to grandma (1x per week)
• Math
• Continuing Wild Math 1

Subjects 2-3x a Week

• History 
• Ancient History
• Library books, projects, etc
• Science
• Land Animals of the 6th Day
• Wild Animals Coloring Book
• The Great Animal Search
• Bible
• Keep doing what we're doing

Fridays

• Art - outsourced at an enrichment center
• Music
• Starting piano
• Beethoven's Wig series
• German
• I'm looking around

I'll update at the end of next week and see how these changes went - if he liked them or disliked them.