Ok so I am away behind in my blog sorry I am going to be better about that this year as we homeschool. I want to keep us as a way to remember what we do this year. So I thought I would start by posting what we will be doing this year for schooling. My tots, Mr. Man, Miss M (my niece I watch) and another little girl I watch will be doing tot trays along with Letter of the Week from another blog. This is the link to the tot trays http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/TraysforTots.html I love this idea and can't wait to get started with my little ones. Letter of the week come from this link http://confessionsofahomeschooler.blogspot.com/2010/07/letter-of-week-curriculum.html Bumblebee will also be doing letter of the week with the little ones. She is a September baby so she would not be in kinder this year in public school but at home we are doing a little preschool and kinder with her. I will also be doing a shape, color, and number of the week as well so help everyone learn those as well. So that is what the tots are doing for tot school or preschool or whatever you choose to call it. I will post more about what they are doing each week in another post. Bumblebee beside doing what the tots will be doing will also be doing Get Ready for the Code from Explode the Code. Also a bunch of worksheets I have been get from old preschool books we had around the house and from online. I plan to work on reading with her slowly because she is one that has to do things when she is ready you can't get her to do anything until she decides to do it. She will be included in alot of the things the big kids are doing as well. Plus lots of story time and math games.
Porkchop and Rosebud will both be doing Explode the Code Porkchop will start on book one but might move quickly or might be right no speed not sure yet. Rosebud will start on book 4 and we will see how it goes. For reading books a got I Wonder which is a first grade level reading book and Doors to Discovery which is a 3rd grade level reading book both are complied by Ruth K. Hobbs Christains Light Education. Rosebud is also doing Wordly Wise for vocabulary words. For spelling we are mostly using http://www.spellingcity.com/ My kids learn their words best when playing games with them. I am getting most of my word list from http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/index.html the have spelling list you can print for each grade level and fun holiday word list also it is great. I get all kinds of worksheet from this site including calendars. Some words I do get from misspelling in my kids writing as well. They will also be using Handwriting without Tears. This worked really well Rosebud last year and improved her handwriting so she will be moving on to cursive this year. Porkchop will be doing the print one. They will also be doing journal writing. For history this year will be doing Story of the World volume 1. I know we are kind of doing them backwards but it just kinda worked out that way with the co-op we are in. I love story of the world so it doesn't matter to me if we do them out of order just that we learn from them. We will also be reading things like the Little House books and trying out the cookbook also for history and maybe so of the American Girls also. We really like studying different time periods and what it was like to live during that time. We will be making lapbooks and things to go with this. For science will are doing God's Creation Series. I got the book Our Father's World and Exploring God's Creation I am going to both books this year with the two or three older kids. For scripture study we are using Discovery the book of Mormon. Yes I am lds or Mormon for anyone who didn't know. Here is the link for the scripture study site but they also have bible ones for anyone who wants it http://www.bookofmormondiscovery.com/bookofmormon.html We will also be doing flannel board story's from the book of Mormon and the bible. I put magnets on the back and use a dry erase board instead of a flannel board but that is what works best for us. They will also be doing some reading on scriptures for kids which is a great site I love http://scriptures4kids.com/ So that is most of what we are doing beside crafts and art, cooking, baking, running, playing, and co-op well and anything else we just feel like adding in. (I am not getting any money from the sites I posted I just really like all of these sites.)
