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The well trained mind

Retellling of the ancient myths of Iliad and Odyssey

buy trojan horse frrom amazon
Place on hold The odyssey by geraldine
shakespere for children
Dickens for children
fairy tales of chilna and japams
stories of bible
mythis of rome and greece
about plato and aristotle
simplifed versions of Homer
Fall of troy
The fist four years are grammar stage
Three righed book for grammar reading and spelling
science and history
Cursive penmanship in second grade.
Grad 1 to 4 base your teaching on Level achievement
whan they achieve one go to the nect one. No
reigididity is the botomline
Ordinary paents guide to

first grade read ancinets 5000 bc to ad 400

Adventures or spider wet is at ebr
the odyssey is ebr\
Date Dec
Dec 18ty
I ordered Zaher Bloser cursive and nanuscript
materail
Spelling workout
Beginning wisely from Rod and staf for grammar
Goal is to bring to 4th grade level by age 10 to 11
THis si the grammmar stage and the foundation stage.
Ordinary parents guide to teaching readign primer
When some of the rules are a problem copy on a sheet
of parper and put in the front of splling section fo the
notebbok
Copy on the spelliing rules page.
Keep a list of truouble words. Review at the beginning
of the spelling lessons the rules and
Do spelling excersices all through the 4th grade.
Aim to reach atleast level 4 by 4th grade.
E or F by end of fourth grade is very good.

Spelling powe asks the studuent to visualize and trace

words in the air before wiritn it
and is good for visual learnes might be good for sneha
I think
Ask for narration in full sentences.
For grammar
Write down childs narration and read it back to him.
Use books from aesops or fairy tales andother books
and put the narration in the grammar section
ROd and staff is a teacher guide requires students to
copy each exccesice sna do it.
So do orally as many as possible.
Language notebo
ok
Spelling - Rules and Trouble wod list.
Grammar contais narraion fo stories.
Rading, writing
Radign section write the books read
First grade ancients 5000 BC to AD 400
Readis is to give simplifed versons of original
literatirue that will be read in higher grades.
fairy tales of ancinet china japan
bible stories

myths of rome and greece

aesops fables
panchatantra
stories about plato and airstotle
tenali ramakrssha akbar birbal storis vikramaditya
stories. stories from ramayana, mahabharatha
robert frost reading his own poetry
Read biographies
History and reading assignmnets should overlap a bit.
vemana stories
In two to four sentences and you tell the plot. the
exciting thing or favorite character
Copy favorite poems in the radign section
30 minsfor first grade and build up to 4th grade.
Every two ro three weeks the child should rad a poem
and recite it back to you,
Put it in the memory section of the workbook in the
readign section and put the date on it.
second grade student should spend at least 30 min per
day readign literatur.
By second grade most students can tell narrations and
copy narrations to the book by themselves.

The second grade book should contain less of my

writing and more of the child.
abridriged or simpler versions of the classice.
Kiplings just so stories
Jumgle Bool
Nebitt E All of them Looks like Juvenile fiction books
Chronicles of narnia
Peter Pan
Charlottes web by EB White
Trumpet of the swan
Hodson Burnettetts A little princess
Unabridged Chirstmas Carol
Bilingualism makes you smarter Immerse yourself
into it.
Chinese mother are stereotypes
Learn spanish.
Whats is my parenting style not good not giving them
enough space and room.
Givign them oppurtunites to explore the arts domain.
Gemes

Dragons and dungeons

Do regular activites
Tetrahedron dice
Play monoploy
Teach in an organized way tennis, Taekwondo, Balle,
Baseball, Football, Scocer, Table tennis, Chess,
Chinese checkers skateboard, Basketball,
Bowling, Cricket,
American history project
Teach these themses
Topiecs from Encyclodpedia. Touchbase on these and
you have to reveiw them periodically. Yo u have to
write down what you did what you talked and them
revist them
recently
Anilmal senses
Alexander
Astronomy
Aircraft
Astronomers.
American history.
Cooking meauremenhts Units
Gardening

Heaothy foods.

American history.
Activities
Orgami, Magic tricks, Spirutuality ,
Games....
Science projects

Second Greade Material

New noteboooks
Sections
Spelling
Grammar
Reading
Writing
History
Science

Also lay in a boxful of art supplies: glue, scissors,

construction paper, colored pencils (good artist-quality
ones like Sanford Prismacolor
stickers
Cursive handwriting is recommend to start in second
grade
Spellling workout books
tells the spelling rules
Should keep a list of trouble words that we would like
to review
Spelling rules page

spelling lessons are fifteen mins a day

Level D Level E by EOS 4th grade
Spelling power book

Make sure the child narrates the story back in her

own words

Full sentence narration

Should be able to identify all the parts of speech rules
of punctuation , capitalization
and dictionary use

Reading Section
My reading
For reading follow the same pattern as histroy work
ork
Biographise reading biographies
Ddyssey might be overwehlyming but they might
enjoy listening to it.

Whats your favorite character and what did he do?

What was teh book about

Favorite poema also under my reading section
An hour of readiing by 4th grade
The books in reading section have to be difficult then
atheri general readin glvelve

Record his poem he learnet on a tape and let mhim

lsiten to it again
Memory work section
will contain poems learnt and by hearted.

simple tales from chaucer

John bunyan teh simplified piligrims progreas
charles dickens unabridgred versions
simpler poetry of wordsworth

and blake
My reading should be harder boooks non abridgedv
ersions of chirstmas carol
Great expectations
Notebook pages should comeup atleast twice a week.
By EO 3rd grade child should be able to narrate the
sotry and write it down without the intermediate stpe
of dictating and then copying

Gradualy to book reports.

Thrid grede
Preamble to teh constitution , Declaration of
Independence
Patrick Henrys LGive me liberty speech among
others.
Also, dont neglect poetry; Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot,
Walter de la Mare, and other great poets of the moden
times
LIbrary visits shoudl be a weekly or biweekly

Free hour reading you can read anything that you

want
Read alound until sixteh grade
Thye have to learn to recite poesm , I hink math
tables.Discuourage guessing , cathc erorrrs , teach
them word attach skills
McGuffey electric reader
buy com
ics make magazine subsciptions.
Never get emotional and shout
Always give two choices.
Teach about super heroes
Writting
Learn magin tiricks
Play cardboard games
Learn tenniscricket
Games Football, baseball, basketball,
scrapbooking
Orgami
Comics
Orgami
Videogames
TGEnnis

Teakwondo
Geography
Animals
Star wars
Fictons
Sies
World wars
Positvire psyhcologhy
How many days it has beben since I have todl a story
voice lessons
Nov 2nd
Not even a littel bit of this paln I implementd really
Where is the time Man
Plan ahead for thanksgiving. Plan ahead for
chirstmas, for new year.
Around new year and martin luther king birthday
teach about Americal hsitory.
Novv adn Chirstmas Colling Loing Cards, Makign
cards...
New year cards. New year gifts.
SEtupp the alarm
Teach soccer. Teach grammar. Math and science
experiments.

Atleast its a starting point he bool of Well Trained

Mind
Subjects I want them to explore via computer.
English
Math
Science
Physical Excercise
Music
The compilation of English resources.
Funbarin
Friday Saturday when goes to work give them two
compuers and make them paly
Magazines this is the time to read magazines. and
books like crazy for them.
Look for used magazines.
Amazon has a good list of magazine
How to used last years editions
Magazines and comics
Ladybug
Highlight

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Ask
Muse
American Girl/
cricket
Every two montsh get past issues from library.
Good Habits
Good morning, Good might, Please, Thank you, To
listen to otehrs whiel they are taling Excuse me, please
you are welcome
Hi Hello smile on the face.
Healthy Kids club Eating right, developing self esteem
Not eating beacuse the food looks good Mindul eatin.
Eating while doing something. These are bad habits.
March 27th 2012
If I miss the yar next year comes. Not a bit of progress
on educational front All tied up in my personal desires.
Insane Now back to grammar Im learning the rules
and its takiing time o learn. When will I be able to
transfer the knowleget to them I dont anything.
Insane.
This wieek I want to get a proper grammar and word
plan

Get an assessment of math... where they are.

Arduiono kit
Learn fishing and teach it.
Skating shoes. I want to fly a kit and get good at it.
Soccer should be in a position to teach some tricks and
show shome ivedos.
Rollback the operating system on Vista. Remote
control of Vista still nto happened.
Dartboard fixning. Lawn plan. Aquarium
How to do compost. Fix grill. Math activities
Orgami teach.
Robinson Crusoe
I Wish to be a Sailor
I Make my First Voyage
I See Much of the World
I Undertake a New Venture
I am Shipwrecked
I am Cast Upon a Strange Shore
I Find a Strange Lodging Place
I Visit the Wreck
I Make me a Raft
I Carry Some Things Ashore
I Learn That I am on an Island
I have a Strange Visitor
I Find a Great Store of Things
I Build me a Castle
I Go a-hunting
I Keep Myself Busy
I Have a Great Fright
I Explore my Island

I Get Ready for Winter

I Make Me a Calendar
I Sow Some Grain
I Make a Long Journey
I Harvest my Grain
I Work Under Many Difficulties
I Become a Potter
I Build a Big Canoe
I Make an Umbrella
I Have a Perilous Adventure
I am Alarmed by a Voice
I am Happy as a King
I Learn to Bake and am Prosperous
I See Something in the Sand
I am Again Alarmed
I Make a Surprising Discovery
I Explore my Cave Further
I See Savages
I Discover a Wreck
I Make Another Voyage
I Have a Queer Dream
I Get Hold of a Savage
I am Pleased with my Man Friday
I Teach Friday Many Things
I Make a New Boat
I See a Strange Sail
I Make a Bold Rescue
I Have an Anxious Day
I am Called Governor
I Have a New Suit of Clothes
I Bring my Tale to a Close

Once the schoool year starts for 3rd grade I need to

ahve meal plans ready. Do teh Grocery shoppping.
Travel plans. Vaction plans. Study plans. People
palns.

Driving plans .
In 3rd Grade
Whats the calendar like?
What are my supplies that are needed?
Books. Supplies. Activity schedule.
How to read for them everyday?
Music advancement.
Get books from 3rd in India and Singarpore maybe
Beaks math.?
Sept 22nd 2012
Ingerdientsfor science experiments.
Cholorphyll experiment.
Sedds and Plant with ligh - Pinto Beans
Blalons latex ballons - Rubber plants produce enouhg
sap to produce 3 10 inch ballons each day.
How can I own a rubber plantation?
Earth worm experiment.
maggots - tiny womline cratiures that grow inot fruit
flies.
Science Experiments Oct fourth, 2012
Strenght in Eggs. Masking tape.
Decomposition of banana

why do plants grow up towards the sky?Because the

auxin chemial collects at teh bototm of the stem
adding more weight to the stem.

Nov 5th
Keep constant visits to shcool and public library< kae
ti a practice.
Cursive handwriting for Sneha.
Stay course and stay focussed.
Sept 12th 2013
Year is important as years are passing by.
Today 4th grade reading list
Judy blume
I spy and Harry potter series.
Keep focused on science and social studies and flash
cards for the kids.
Before placint a trade, take the chart and pin it to the
wall. Now be the Hrold and drawa.
God show me light. God show me wisdon. God show
me bliss. What more do you nedd.
Sept 15h Sunday

Condor is a butterfly with the body seperated.