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Grade 1 (completed)

September 2006 - June 2007

Between September and December of 2006, Haifa was going to Roger White Academy part-time and homeschooling part time (read Roger White Academy). Even though she was attending the school part time, she continued with her homeschooling curriculum. So she continued to use her Math, Spelling and Reading program while she participated in the history, science, art, yoga and drama classes at the school.

In January of 2007, we went back to full time homeschooling. Haifa learned how to read really well this year and her math is coming along nicely.

I'm noticing that both Haifa and Justice started Grade 1 a year early but then took 2 years to complete it. It must be that they need to achieve a certain level of physical/brain development before being capable of moving on. That's fine. I think with Verity, I will be less eager to start school work at 3 years old. I'll let her be a little kid for longer.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, her To Do List is as follows:

Math: one lesson from Singapore Math Level 1.
Spelling: one page of Spelling Workout Level A.
Reading: Haifa would read me one book by Nora Gaydos. By the end of the year I was asking her to read me 2 books a day.
Art: one lesson from Art Skills (the Crayon Set) which we purchased from Sonlight. We almost never got around to this lesson (I think we did it 3 times all year). But I'm not worried about this since she draws on her own very regularly.

Tuesday and Thursday, her To Do List is as follows:

History: two pages read from The Usborne Book of World History Haifa dictates to me what she remembers from what I read and I write it for her in her "Haifa's Book of World History", then she draws a picture illustrating things she learned.
Math: one lesson from Singapore Math Level 1.
Grammar: one lesson from "English for the Thoughtful Child" (recommended from the old version of "The Well-Trained Mind".)
Reading: Haifa would read me one or two books.
Science: two or more pages read from The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Our World, The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space, or Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations by Thompson. We often did not get to our science lessons. When we do, we often read six pages instead of two. I'm not concerned about this because we will focus on this more when she is older.

Haifa is also systematically memorizing the Hidden Words by Baha'u'llah. She also now recites the Short Obligatory prayer daily from memory and recites the Greatest Name 95 times a day. Of her own initiative, she started to read and memorize prayers from an adult prayer book. Her favourite prayer is: "O my God! I ask Thee, by Thy most glorious Name, to aid me in that which will cause the affairs of Thy servants to prosper, and Thy cities to flourish. Thou, indeed, hast power over all things!" -Bahá'u'lláh

Haifa completed the following curriculum during her second Grade 1 school year:

Math: Finished Singapore Math 1B.
Grammar: Completed half of English for the Thoughtful Child.
Spelling: Finished Spelling Workout A.
Reading: Finished Level 3 and 4 of Nora Gaydos' Early Readers and began on Sonlights Level 1 and Level 2 Readers.
Science: Read The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Our World, The Usborne First Encyclopedia of Space, or Glow-in-the-Dark Constellations by Thompson.
History: Read Usborne's Book of World History from Greek Civilization until the present.
Music: Graduated from the Kindermusic Young Child 1 program (this year she learned to play the glokenspiel).
Baha'i Children's Classes: 10 laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Introduction to the Major World Religions.

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