MONDAY
Monday will usually be an "inside" day, with maybe a short stint of play or other outdoor activity-- but will rarely be an "outing" day. It is a day for establishing momentum for the week.
There will be a seasonal, timely theme being explored each week, and Monday the theme is introduced, discussed, activities and lessons related to it. Whatever activities and pursuits most interest each child can be explored during periods of the day.
Focus will be turned to all of the academic areas-- reading/ writing; math skills appropriate to each student's age/ level; foreign languages; hands-on physical science and indoor-gardening; yoga, dance and other indoor physical activities will be emphasized.
Monday is the day to transition gently into the new week, to establish and gather momentum in new learning/ playing goals.
TUESDAY
Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, every other Tuesday, throughout the year! (Weather permitting, of course.) The regular visitations to this exquisite location-- and occasional visits to the uptown Manhattan B.G. as well, of course-- are a great place for children to observe as-it-happens the changes of seasons, learn with their own eyes about ecology, about the plants and animals which populate the BBG so abundantly... and lessons will be directly related to this ongoing "field trip."
Tuesday will usually be an "eat-out" day. The BBG has a food court with healhy, tasty food that the kids tend to like... Such expense will be added to the day's cost-- or parents can choose to pack a lunch for their kids this day.
The lessons-focus of the day will be mostly hands-on: though students will have activities, written work to take along, and once we've returned from the BBG, we'll continue lessons, pursuing the theme established Monday.
WEDNESDAY
Wednesday is a day for local excursion-- nothing too far-afield, or ambitious/ elaborate-- and will sometimes be another mostly-indoor day. Excursions might be to a local park, library-- even a trip to a store to engage a lesson about errands, responsibilities, nutritional and other decisions faced when shopping (just one example).
The focus for Wednesday will be to delve deeper into the week's theme, the seasonal theme, and apply academic subjects, as well as projects using varied skills and underlying lessons, throughout the day. Wednesday is a work, learn, play day!
It is a day for engaging the curriculum we've chosen for your child, learninging reading/ writing skills, engaging in mathematical problems, applying scientific inquiry, applying history and current-events lessons within the day's activities, lessons, projects.
THURSDAY
Thursday is a likely out-and-about day-- at least half of the day. A trip to Prospect or Central Park, to a museum (Brooklyn Children's Museum will be a regular Thursday trip, as often as once monthly)... It would be a good day to plan a class to drop-off kids near the end of our day-- so that parents can pick the kids up at the class location (Park Slope, for example, has a great variety of kids' activities/ classes, from music to yoga, martial arts, gymnastics... Chelsea Piers in Manhattan would also be a Great Location for a gymnastics-oriented class... or rock-climbing (it has a Great climbing wall, LOTS for kids to do, lessons to take).
We will design Thursdays together, the kids, parents and BHS.
FRIDAY
Friday is, of course, FUN DAY!!
It can be a field trip day-- maybe to the library(!!), or a local park/ playground... It can be a day to finish-up big projects, celebrate completion... it'll be an occasional day to throw a party, bake something together-- cookies, or pizza!-- maybe a day to rent a special movie, cook up some popcorn...
Of course, a great deal of learning will occur on Fridays... but in general, the vibe will be more relaxed (unless everyone is intent, focused on finishing some enjoyable project... like editing a movie, or building something, or recording music we've mastered...), the tone will be expansive, light, less focused on academics for its own sake... Friday is Dream Time, at its best.
Let’s Teach Them Well.
-Zack Lehtinen
Father, LifeLong Teacher
A Brooklyn HomeSchool
(718) 689-0128
zacklehtinen@hotmail.com
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