Our 2022-2023 Homeschool Plan for 4th Grade

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I’m back in, making a homeschool plan again!
After a three year pause, I am returning to homeschooling my youngest this school year. Although I homeschooled my five children for 10 years, this year is quite a bit different. I only have one student and we are in post-quarantine catch up mode. My other three kids are continuing in public school.
This year I am starting from scratch with the benefit of experience. I have a lot of decisions to make. So here I go…
Our Homeschool Plans for 2022-2023
For the first time, I’m only planning for one student. This transition to balancing both public school and homeschool is the biggest challenge. I have one in each of the local elementary, middle and high schools. And my oldest is doing dual enrollment in community college.
Although we are all doing different things, in different places, at different times, the good thing is we are all going to be doing homeschool Spanish together, at home.
With all this in mind, this is what I plan to do this year.
Our Homeschool Year Plans for 4th Grade
Most importantly, this is a catch up year. My daughter fell behind during the quarantine in public school. This year we will focus on math and language arts. I will share our plans by subject.
We have joined a local Classical Conversations community. The curriculum covers most subjects. Each week, my daughter will have a hands-on fine arts lesson, a science project and give a presentation. The rest of the week we will do memory work, sentence parsing and writing assignments.
In addition to the core subjects, all my kids will be learning Spanish at home! This is my favorite language and I want all my kids to become bilingual.
Homeschool Math
The quarantine has really set her back in math, so we are really focused on math. My daughter will be memorizing math facts and doing weekly drills and games. We will catch her up and fill in any gaps with math tutoring at our local Mathnasium.
Homeschool English
Similarly, we are also focused on raising her language arts levels in all areas. My daughter will be memorizing grammar facts and learning how to parse and diagram sentences. She will also be reading from the booklist below and giving oral narrations.
Classical Conversations Essentials curriculum
IEW Medieval History-Based Writing Lessons
Fix It! Grammar: Level 1 Nose Tree
Booklist for 4th Grade:
- Tales of Robin Hood
- White Stallion of Lipizza
- The Door in the Wall
- Sticks Across the Chimney
- The Little Riders
- Red Sails to Capri
- Aesop for Children
- The Twenty-One Balloons
Homeschool History
We will be doing an overview of world events and focusing on medieval to modern history and geography. Each week there will be timeline events, a history sentence and geography locations to memorize. She will listen to these historical narrative audios every week following the timeline:
- Story of the World: Volume 1: Ancient Times
- Story of the World: Volume 2: Middle Ages
- Story of the World: Volume 3: Early Modern
- Story of the World: Volume 4: Modern Age
Booklist for History:
- Usborne Book of World History
- Joan of Arc
- Good Queen Bess
- Michelangelo
- Medicine News
- Peter the Great
- Philomena
- Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!
- Castle Diary
Homeschool Science
The main science spine will complement the science facts for ecology, astronomy and physics. Each week in community, she will do a hands-on science project. This reinforces the scientific method. We will also cover health.
Exploring Building Blocks of Science Book 4
Homeschool Fine Arts
Drawing
My daughter loves drawing. In community there will be art and music theory hands-on lessons. On top of that my daughter will take drawing classes at our local Inspyr arts school.
fine arts
This is one subject we will do as a family. For art appreciation, we will discuss Latin American art in Spanish following my own curriculum.
Grow Spanish: Art Study in Spanish
Homeschool Physical Education
My daughter will swim, run, ride bikes, go on nature walks and play a variety of sports.
Homeschool Spanish
I’ve saved the best for last. We are going to read aloud Spanish books. As she learns new vocabulary and sentence patterns, she will listen, speak, read and write Spanish. Everyone in the family will do this together and independently.
Booklist for Spanish:
- Un cuento para cada letra
- La historia del mundo para niños
- El libro de los 1.000 porqués
- Experimentos de ciencia en casa
- Platero y yo
- El libro de Gloria Fuertes
- Mi primer Larousse de la naturaleza
Field Trips:
Museum of Latin American Art
Long Beach Museum of Art
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
And that’s our homeschool plan for this school year, let’s go!
More about learning Spanish at home
Our Homeschool Spanish Curriculum
What’s Inside Our Spanish Learning Binder
Read Aloud in Spanish | Reading Activities
