Pre-School Goals

We are going to go with a trimester approach, although I don't think this will really apply perfectly, as for the lower grades, I think stopping completely during summer or other holidays will just confuse my darling children. 

Fall Term:

Finish Teach your child to read in 100 Easy Lessons (mid December)

Zoo phonics games

1 good quality picture book or story in English per day, read aloud, including finishing Beatrix Potter

1 French story book per day, along with French pre-reading skills (Frederic)

1 page of poems from A Child’s Book of Poems read aloud at the breakfast table

1 Let’s Read and Find Out science book every 2 weeks, seasonally appropriate, preferably read outdoors (6 total)

Practice counting and recognizing numbers  1-50.

Finish Mozart appreciation, begin Christmas classics music appreciation

Drawing

Nature Study

Good Habits routine: Meal manners, after-meal helping, going out and coming in routine, greetings and goodbyes

Winter Term:

1 chapter or book from Frog and Toad or Henry and Mudge readers, read and narrated by Eliot per day

Zoophonics games

1 good quality picture book or story in English per day, read aloud

1 French story book per day (Frederic)

Jolly Phonique French phonics program, one lesson per day (Monica and Frederic)

1 page of poems from A Child’s Book of Poems read aloud at the breakfast table

1 Let’s Read and Find Out science book every 2 weeks, seasonally appropriate, preferably read outdoors (6 total)

Practice counting and recognizing numbers  1-50.

Begin addition with counters

Tchaikovsky appreciation, Medieval music appreciation

Nature study

oil crayons

Good Habits routine: Help with meal or table prep, room clean-up

 Spring Term: 

1 chapter or book from early readers, read and narrated by Eliot per day

Zoophonics games

Start handwriting skills

1 good quality picture book or story in English per day, read aloud

1 French story book per day (Frederic)

Jolly Phonique French phonics program, one lesson per day (Monica and Frederic)

1 page of poems from A Child’s Book of Poems read aloud at the breakfast table

1 Let’s Read and Find Out science book every 2 weeks, seasonally appropriate, preferably read outdoors (6 total)

Practice counting and recognizing numbers  1-100.

Addition with counters and symbols

Bach appreciation, ? music appreciation

Nature study (inc. flower collection project with field guide)

watercolors

Good Habits routine: Helping with one household chore

* Narration at story time is encouraging Eliot to "tell back" the story he just read or heard, to improve comprehension skills and/or listening skills, and is a CM method for evaluating knowledge acquisition.

So that's the rough idea.  I see now that a few things are left out- social skills, and other blah-blah-blah stuff that should come naturally from a well-rounded life.  So let's just assume that I'm thinking of those ideas too.