We took the summer off last year and that was a mistake. I had heard that the first several months were to review the last years work that was forgotten over the summer. I can now attest to it.
This year we took a week or so off and then jumped right in with 4th grade. No memory laps this time round. Also, we are back to 4 day school weeks. This helps out especially since we take a lot of time off to visit and spend time with family. It gives us a more relaxed school year, no rushing around trying to cram in school days.
I also divided her notebook differently this year. Everything is arranged by week instead of by subject. For example, all of the papers that she needed were right there with her week one assignment sheet. This took considerable time for me to prepare but made the school day go very smoothly.
Sissy likes to do her work in the order that it is given on her assignment sheet. I arranged her subjects so that she has her least favorite subjects, the ones that she struggles with, first and ending with her favorite. This years subjects, in order, are: Language Arts, Spelling & Penmanship, Creative Writing (she actually loves this but it goes well with the other in this order), Reading Comprehension, Social Studies, History, Science, Math and then Health & Safety, Arts & Crafts and Music alternating from day to day.
We have been working with this schedule for several weeks now and it is going very well. The only struggle that we have had so far comes when there are other children playing outside and Sissy has school work to do. Other than that, I am very excited about this school year!
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