Here is the end of year review for my 3rd grader. She is on the young side for her grade as she would not have made the public school cut off for the year she started kinder, so if in public school, she would have only been 2nd grade this year.
MATH
For Math she has been using Math Lessons for a Living Education since level 1. This year she did level 3. She still struggles with remembering addition facts and is struggling a bit with multiplication, but I am hoping to do some review with this throughout the summer. We plan to continue with this curriculum.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Shay started Language Lessons for a Living Education level 2 last year and did level 3 this year. I do really like this curriculum because she can work on a lot of it very independently. This curriculum has her doing different activities different days of the week (we double up one day to finish in 4 days a week). Exercise 1 is reading, we read the story together, it highlights what the kids should read. Exercises 2 & 3 are usually grammar and she can often do these on her own with the examples they provide. Exercise 4 is a Bible story from 101 Favorite Bible Stories, we read together, alternating paragraphs. Exercise 5 is spelling, and this is the one thing I struggle with on this curriculum, mostly because with her I did not stay on top of spelling earlier on like I did with my son. It did take her a bit longer to start reading (We use All About Reading) and so I held off a bit longer on All About Spelling and then I have not been as consistent with it because it is teacher intensive, and with having busy foster littles the last 2 years, I have dropped the ball a bit with spelling. So I supplemented some with All About Spelling this year. She has finished level 1 and has done a bit of level 2. I plan to focus on finishing level 2 and maybe doing level 3 in the summer, and starting a new spelling program in the fall. We will also do All About Reading Level 4 in the summer, while we are breaking from most of the rest of our curriculum. Then she will continue Language Lessons next year along with another spelling program to supplement.
SCIENCE
She did Zoology along with big brother this year, I did not have her do all the worksheets for the Big Book of Animals, because it was a lot of fill in the blank, and it would take her a long time to write it all. She enjoyed the coloring/dot-to-dots, etc worksheets especially for the Complete Zoo and Complete Aquarium books. Now she is working on God's Design for Life for Beginner's. She still listens to the lessons I read from big brother's Life text, but she only has to do the pages and answer question for the beginner level, which I think works much better for her.
HISTORY
She has done America's Story 2 & 3 with big brother. She listens and helps answer questions as we discuss the chapters. She does not always recall a lot, but hopefully it will be a trigger when she learns the information again later. She does do the sketching and map activities on the worksheets, but she struggles a lot with the review worksheets. She will also be doing a LEGO timeline for her final history project.
BIBLE
She did More Than Words level 1 from Master Books for the Bible. I have enjoyed this curriculum for them, and it was a pretty good level for her.
ART
Shay wants to be an artist, and spends a lot of time drawing, coloring, painting, cutting and taping paper creations together. She also really enjoys Art Hub for Kids videos. She has enjoyed the Living Art Lessons, but I struggle with staying on a schedule for regular instructed art practice. Hopefully next year they will get to take an in person art class.
Aside from their regular school work, we try to sometimes watch videos or documentaries that go along with what we are learning. We try to also incorporate games, but with a little one around, that has not happened nearly as often as I would like. They have also done some typing practice online when I remember to remind them to do that. Both kids enjoy Prodigy game for math and Shay enjoys Math Seeds and Reading Eggspress.
