PE or how the big man is not following up

So my hubby, a very busy man, was going to do PE/Health with my little man  this year. 3 weeks in and he has had 1 lesson with him. Yes I am disappointed.

DAY 2

So today we started on time! At 9:02! Today I have learned that letting him play on the computer for break is not conducive to getting more school work done. He had a COW despite advance warning, when I told him it was time to get beck to school work.
Right now he is having PE with the Big Man. They are learning about food groups and then will do some physically active stuff.
We did our IS for the day and Arabic. That covered handwriting as well. After he takes a break when finished with PE he will then, inshallah have English then  preforming arts.
For PA we will just briefly identify good public speakers and discuss what makes them good speakers. I figure 5-10 min at most. After that work boxes.

My Hubby Will Teach PE/Health

So, inshallah, my hubby will be in charge of gym essentially. I asked to get involved in my little man's schooling and we talked about different ways he could be more involved. He decided he would like to take charge of PE/Health.
I gave him some tips regarding how to set goals and break them into lessons. I told I think of what my long term overall goal is then keep that in mid as I break it down into smaller goals. I then think, "What goal could we meet this year that would bring us closer to that over all goal?" I break that down into smaller and smaller pieces until they are so small we can make them into individual lessons.
I made some suggestions like looking up a pacing guide and standards. Trying The Presidents Fitness Challenge, and offered to put together some information for him.

The Next Step/I have decided what we will use in each subject!

So here is the big list:

• English
• reading: Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
• writing: 6 Traits of Writing 1st Grade, Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
• grammer: Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
• spelling/phonics: Scott Foresman Reading, Harcourt Collections
• Penmanship
• English: Spencerian Penmanship
• Arabic: Iqrah Reader, and various printables
• Science: Scott Foresman Science 2nd grade
•  Social Studies
• History: Our Prophet, and Our Country
• Civics: Our Country
• Geography: Our Country and Al Ummah
• Culture: See IS and Geography
• Economics: Our Country
• Mathematics: How We Use Number, and Mathematics in Action
• Islamic Studies
• Salat: My Salat Companion (TJ)
• Quran: Juz 30
• Aqeedah: Most resources from TJ (Talibideen JR)
• Arabic:
• Reading: Madina Arabic Reader book 1
• Writing: Madina Arabic Reader book 1, Iqrah Reader 1st grade
• Oral: Madina Arabic Reader book 1, Iqrah Reader 1st grade
• Health:
• cooking/nutrition: weekly meal prep,
• other: Harcourt Health, and various other individual resources for each topic

So Where are We? Choice curriculum/Getting back into the routine.

Well it looks like we have the Arabic picked out, Math, Science, and English picked out. This leaves handwriting, Islamic Studies, Social Studies, Arts and Health.
I have all but decided that we will learn Spencerian Penmanship because it will be an art as well as a tool for communication. I think I really need to spice things up for penmanship otherwise we'll be miserable.
Also I figure for arts just making sure we have various art projects going on regularly. I will just let it be mostly child directed inshallah.  Say we love reading Three Little Bikers, maybe we can make a puppet show of it, or are leaning about the food groups, painting a poster about it, or we write and learn a little nasheed about what good writers do. Things like that.
Also I am thinking that SS and Health do not need to be done every day. Ideas i have for them are teaching one subject, a few times a week and then when we have mastered the concepts and skills do the other.
We could have one week with one subject and one week with the other or One day with one subject and the other a day or 2 later.
As far as IS goes I think we will do Quraan everyday, and other subjects on certain days. Maybe Aqeeda on mondays, that kind of thing.

This brings me to Mondays. Mondays are the hardest day of our week because he is often tired coming home from a fun weekend at Dad's. It seems also to very important that with in the first few mins that he walks in the door that he gets started on school work. If he does not he has a hard time with the transition back to Mom's house all day. I tend to want to chat with his step mom about what he did on the week end and what not. I guess I will just have to give her a call later in the day. 

Passwords for various text books and links

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English
	Languages of Literature Grade 6	http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr06/index.cfm?state=MD
	Languages of Literature Grade 7	http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr07/index.cfm?state=MD
	Languages of Literature Grade 8	http://www.classzone.com/books/language_of_lit_gr08/index.cfm?state=MD
Health
	Teen Health Course 1	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078697603/student_view0/
	Teen Heath Course 2	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078697611/student_view0/
	Teen Health Course 3	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/007869762x/student_view0/
Spanish
	Realidades 1 Web Code jck-0001	http://www.phschool.com
	Realidades 2 Web code jdk-0001	http://www.phschool.com
	Realidades 3 Web code jek-0001	http://www.phschool.com
French
	Discovering French Bleu 1	http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/french_1/book_home.htm
	Discovering French Blanc 2	http://www.classzone.com/cz/books/french_2/book_home.htm
World Studies
	A Message of Ancient Days World Studies 6	http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/6/index.html
	Across the Centuries World Studies 7	http://www.eduplace.com/ss/hmss/7/index.html
	Creating America World Studies 8	http://www.classzone.com/books/cas05/index.cfm?state=MD
Math
	Math 6	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mac/mac01/course1/
	Math 7	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/mac/mac01/course3/
	IM	http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078738180/student_view0
	Algebra 1	http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/algebra/algebra1/algebra1_05/
	Algebra 2	http://www.classzone.com/books/algebra_2/index.cfm?state=MD
	Geometry	http://go.hrw.com/gopages/ma/geo.html