Break It Down By Age

Preschool- birth to 4 ½ or 5

• Lots of hugs, singing and talking.
• Read the Bible every day.
• Draw pictures of the story and give them a title.
• Practice Memorize verses.
• Sing hymns, Sunday School songs and nursery songs.
• Read to your child daily.
• Take walks and discuss everything you see.
• Talk about shapes, colors, sizes, numbers (practice counting), relations, and the ABC’s. You can use workbooks if you want to, but don’t need to.
• Memorize poetry, basic life facts (phone number, address, days of the week, etc.)
• Encourage them to draw, color, paint, sculpt, and play with any musical instruments you can.
• Expose them to a variety of art work and music. Pick an artist a week to Google or use Child Sized Masterpieces.
• Introduce nouns in other languages. (Check YouTube, especially Baby Einstein videos.)
• Dance often (Remember you are teaching rhythm).
• Optional: Write one letter per day and draw pictures to go with it.
• You can use “Slow and Steady Get Me Ready” if you wish.

4 ½ to 6

• Lots of hugs, singing and talking.
• Read the Bible every day.
• Draw pictures of the story and give them a title.
• Trace or copy a verse from Proverbs.
• Memorize verses.
• Sing hymns, Sunday School songs and nursery songs.
• Teach how to blend sounds into words and words into sentences. Once they can do that, have your child read to you every day.
• Read to your child daily; Literature, History and Science.
• Find all stories on maps and timelines.
• Keep track of important people, words, and dates.
• Have the child narrate to you small summaries of some of your reading.
• Take walks and discuss and record everything you see.
• Experiment when you can.
• Begin to point out capitalization and punctuation on every sentence the child dictates as you write it down.
• Identify all the nouns and verbs.
• Practice forming problem letters correctly.
• Start a typing program.
• Memorize poetry, basic life facts (phone number, address, days of the week, etc.)
• Teach them to count, add and subtract plus use fractions in cooking, money and clocks.
• Measure everything.
• Teach the basic rules of art, but mostly encourage them to practice. Don't forget scissors skills.
• Expose them to a variety of art work and music.
• Teach basic music reading, but mostly encourage them to play.
• Dance often.

7 to 10

• Lots of hugs, singing and talking.
• Read the Bible everyday (or have them read it to you.)
• Draw pictures of the story and give them a title.
• Dictate a verse from Proverbs.
• Memorize verses.
• Sing hymns, Sunday School songs.
• Have your child read to you every day.
• Have him read to himself everyday (twenty or more minutes).
• Read to your child daily; Literature, History and Science.
• Find all stories on maps and timelines.
• Keep track of important people, words, and dates.
• Have the child narrate (in writing) summaries of some of your reading (3/4 page per day).
• Take walks and discuss and record everything you see.
• Experiment when you can.
•  Enforce capitalization and punctuation rules in every sentence the child writes.
• Identify all the words in a sentence or three every day. Or do a Madlibs.
• Practice forming problem letters correctly.
• Practice the 5-10 easiest misspelled words, or begin “All About Spelling” or another program's lessons.
• Write spelling rules in an English notebook.
• Teach multiplication and division, plus fractions, decimal, and percents in real life. .
• Memorize poetry, basic life facts (phone number, address, days of the week, etc.), and famous speeches.
• Teach the basic rules of art, but mostly encourage them to practice. A child with a lot of hand-eye control might could begin the Drawing Textbook.
• Expose them to a variety of art work and music.
• Teach basic music reading.
• Begin learning some instrument and encourage them to play.
• Dance often.

10 to 14

• Lots of hugs, singing and talking.
• Read the Bible everyday (or have them read it to you.)
• Encourage them to read the Bible on their own in private daily devotional time.
• Draw pictures of the story and give them a title (or replace with written or oral narration).
• Dictate a verse from Proverbs.
• Memorize verses.
• Sing hymns, Sunday School songs.
• Have your child read to you every day.
• Have him read to himself everyday (minimum of twenty minutes).
• Read to your child daily; Literature, History and Science.
• Find all stories on maps and timelines.
• Find as many original sources as you can from the days reading to read for yourself. (i.e. when studying the American Revolution, read the Declaration of Independence and Constitution).
• Keep track of important people, words, and dates.
• Have the child narrate (in writing) summaries of some of your reading (one page per day, or have them start a blog about their school work).
• Take walks and discuss and record everything you see.
• Experiment when you can.
• Enforce capitalization, punctuation, and Grammar rules in every sentence the child writes, Identify all the words in a sentence or three every day and diagram them, write Grammar rules in an English notebook, or do a grammar program
• Practice forming problem letters correctly.
• Practice the 10-20 easiest misspelled words or keep on with your spelling program.
• Concentrate on speed and accuracy in math, plus real life experiences.
• Measure and figure out everything (how much would it cost to go to New York?)
• Memorize poetry. Don’t forget famous speeches.
• Teach the basic rules of art, but mostly encourage them to practice. The Drawing Textbook is especially good for this age.
• Expose them to a variety of art work and music.
• Teach basic music reading.
• Begin learning some instrument and encourage them to play.
• Dance often.

14 to 18

• Lots of hugs, singing and talking.
• Read the Bible everyday (or have them read it to you.)
• Encourage them to read the Bible on their own in private daily devotional time.
• Draw pictures of the story and give them a title (or replace with a narration).
• Dictate a verse from Proverbs. Have them write it in their own words and occasionally in rhyme.
• Memorize verses (and chapters).
• Sing hymns, Sunday School songs.
• Have your child read to you every day. Practice elocution skills.
• Have him read to himself everyday (minimum of twenty minutes).
• Read to your child daily; Literature, History and Science. (Some families may want to have older children do this on their own instead of with the family. I don’t, but some do).
• Find all stories on maps and timelines.
• Find as many original sources as you can from the day’s reading to read for yourself. (i.e. when studying World War II, read Winston Churchill’s autobiography.)
• Research specific topics and write lengthy papers on them. Or make a Youtube video.
• Keep track of important people, words, and dates.
• Have the child narrate (in writing) summaries of some of his reading (one page per day in print or on their blog, or have them make a movie of it and post on YouTube).
• Take walks and discuss and record everything you see.
• Experiment when you can.
• Enforce capitalization, punctuation, and Grammar rules in every sentence the child writes.
• Ffinish up your grammar program.
• Practice forming problem letters correctly.
• Practice the 10-20 easiest misspelled words or finish up your spelling program.
• Write spelling rules in an English notebook.
• Concentrate on speed and accuracy in math, finish up whatever level of whatever program you are using (I require mine to do algebra then Math U See's Stewardship program, then they are done.)
• Measure and figure out everything (how much would it cost to build a house?)
• Discuss your attitudes on dating, marital roles, children, politics, debt, etc. Research what the Bible says about these things together.
• Read the newspaper (or equivalent) together and discuss.
• Memorize poetry and famous documents.
• Encourage practice and performance or display in art and music.
• Expose them to a variety of art work and music.
• Check into taking CLEP tests and finding apprenticeships.
• Dance often.