Our Plans: Such as they are...

New Year on the Horizon Alert!!

We have sat and discussed this together and this term (before the end of March) we hope to do this:

English
Emily still likes the Wizard workbooks and would like to do some more of these, so we will be continuing to use the KS1 workbooks we started last term. We enjoy our morning reading sessions, although now Emily can read we seem to have lost our way with these, so we hope to find a paperback to share. We are looking for opportunities to do useful writing as she is not keen on writing for no reason - we have joined Postcrossing, we hope to write letters to the Nannys, and I hope to get her writing my shopping lists etc. I would like her to try to form her letters correctly, but she disagrees. We will also be looking at the spellings of basic rhyming words to help Emily with her spelling which she has identified as something she would like to do.

Maths
Again Emily would like to carry on with the Little Wizard workbooks. She also enjoys Whizz.com and Education City. We also have subscriptions (via Home Ed groups) to Mathletics and Grid, which we have not yet explored.
She has identified that she would like to learn how to tell the time, we have numerous resources for this: Cards, watches, timers and a large cardbook clock to name but a few.

Science
We would like to finish our Space project and reward ourselves with a visit to the Space Centre. After this, we would like to concentrate on planet Earth. Emily is interested in Volcanoes, so we will look at these and earthquakes and if time allows we will move onto weather.

Geography
We will continue our exploration of Geography from big to small. As Emily is able to identify the Continents, we will continue to explore the countries. We will hopefully be doing this with the help of Postcrossing. We will look at the countries as we receive cards, and we will use news stories to fill in any gaps.

History
We have finished our work on the Stone Age, so moving forward our next logical step is the Bronze and Iron age. I need to think further about how we can do this, as I don't intend it to be a long project.

We will also continue to cook each week and do as many arts and crafts as we can. We will visit as many Home Ed groups as we wish to, and we will spend as much time with our friends as possible.