Kindergarten gone by

We didn’t sit down and map out a plan that would take up a year. We had one boxed curriculum, Saxon math, and figured that when it was all used up we would have done a year’s worth of work in every subject. Here we are, just a few months in and the kit is all done. I didn’t really see it coming. There are so many extra pages at the back of the book for copying and assessments that I just assumed we had quite a way to go. Sure enough, Hannah Jane breezed right through it at hyper speed with all of the content mastered and I’ve got nothing ordered to follow it up with.

I guess we’ll just use this lag time while we are waiting for her first grade kit to show up to focus in on reading and phonics. She’s not a big fan of the reading side of life, which kind of stinks for her because I have a trivium style schooling in store for her. My theory is that the things that don’t come naturally to us are the things we must focus in on. Don’t get me wrong. She can read. She just never sits down with a book and tries to read to herself. She is quite comfortable curling up in a lap and demanding a story be read instead.

Anyway, Kindergarten was kind of haphazard. It went a little something like this: Oh, you like chemical reactions that make little explosions? Okay. We’ll do that for a week. You think it would be cooler with food coloring? Okey dokey! You’re right. Those crystal are pretty. Let’s grow our own! Blah blah blah microscopes, ant farms, and Alice in Wonderland. Blah blah blah rail road museum, mushroom hunts, VanGogh. All in all I think we lightly touched on most everything you might need for kindergarten. I was never a big kindergarten fan anyway.

The only regularity was Saxon math and what we call spirit work. This consisted of memorizing Baha’i prayers and reading about Baha’u’llah and Abdul Baha from the Central Figures Book 1. Let me tell you…this girl loves to memorize prayers! It was her goal to recite a different one each Sunday, but she ran out of short ones and made her new goal to dazzle people with one incredibly long one by the end of the semester. She has officially replaced her shallow desire to be told how cute she is with an equally shallow, but somehow more acceptable, desire to be told what a prayer whiz she is.

So, I guess this is so long kindergarten! It was fun. Now it’s time to put the nose to the grindstone and get serious about this academic stuff! Ancient History, here we come!

And now for a little look back…