Wednesday, June 11, 2008

planning

This is how I plan XP's schooling,
every afternoon (weekdays), she does her Chinese, English & Mathematic mostly on her own.
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At night we do either science or geography/history together,
after that we have our bedtime story.
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Wednesdays are for art/craft or cooking related to what she is learning,
and Saturdays she joins in the art class which I hold in my studio.
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I don't make long term planning,
just plan for 4 weeks in advance,
then add in the 5th week after end of week one,
then 6th week after end of week two......
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This schedule is a long piece of pasted A4 papers,
like an acordian book;
and is written with pencil so that changes can be made when is needed.
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Now we are doing prehistory, I use 2 books.

W stands for Encyclopedia of World History and F stands for Fossil.

Page 18-19 in book W has to be done together with book F page 14-15,

then Page 20-21 in book W with page 8-9 in book F.

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But it is very troublesome and confusing to always have to refer to the schedule,

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so this colour stickers came in handy.
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I put the stickers with the same colours on the pages I need to do together......
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for example,

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Blue stickers on these pages, which talk about evolution,

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and orange stickers on these, about the first life form.

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Another reason to use these stickers is because XP always wanted to read more,

what we do is just go to the next "stickered" pages and continue.

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