As of this morning, lil miss finished all of the curriculum that needed to cover for 1st grade. The last 6 months has definitely had it ups and downs with lots of struggles because we were locked into certain timeline to cover curriculum that I really questioned daily. Through some of the testing to see where she was for reading speed, reading comprehensive, and math comprehensive/abilities, I found that she is above average for reading comprehensive (86th percentile among 1st grade), reading speed is average (83 WCPM), and math comprehensive is above average (85th percentile).
Her abilities to apply the skills of reading as well as math in daily life has developed wonderfully over the last 6 months. She is capable of reading at intermediate 2nd grade level with 75% comprehensive (which is about November benchmark in a public school). Her spelling and grammar skills have vastly improved in the last 6 months. She still struggles with her penmanship, which I have told her repeatedly that it will only improve with more practice. We have decided to continue to homeschool at this point but, we are moving from 10 week marking periods to 12 week marking periods thus allowing us to homeschool year round as well as instruction time and more time for independent projects/writings/discoveries. We are moving away from the Common Core Curriculum in that we feel that it in no way has benefit her or her education overall because it is expects young children to have abstract thinking skills without having concrete thinking skills mastered first.
I don't know what exactly how year is going to work quite yet but, we have a game plan and that's always the first step.
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