Our first week of school! Monday Sept 13

Our first week back YAY!!!!! We started off pretty slow so we didn't overwhelm ourselves too much. We started out doing the first week of Animal Worlds by Winterpromise with Skyler and CLE math. The boys started with Sea and Sky by Winterpromise and Teaching Textbooks for math. Did I mention I love Winterpromise, no bias there but I just adore it and the kids really like it too.

Nov 30-Dec 4 week 18 Insects Insects Insects

Wow looks like that wall needs some bug spray. The letter is I and the theme is insects and we did an awful lot of insect bug stuff. We did all the usual MFW stuff the worksheets and all but I added an awful lot. I had so many early learning bug things so we did alot. I have an Inch by Inch literature set from Lakeshore Learning with the book, inch blocks, and birds to measure so we played with that. We made an inch worm book mark from Danielle's ABC I believe. We also made an inch worm from that site and got an itty bitty inch worm book there too. I really like that site. I have some inch worm manipulatives and cards to use from learning resources so we played with that as well. That was on Monday. On Tuesday I used my Lauri alphabet cards and pieces and we played around with that. I am still happy with the Lauri alphabet box. We read some ant books, Are You An Ant? and Lost wich since she has learned those letters i had her sound outr the title. We watched our ants in our anthill and I was a bit on the dissapointed side. They have never really made any tunnels and they all stay in the front while all the dirt is in the back. After all was done we went on a dead bug hunt. We read online that harvester ants like dead insects so off we went. On Wednesday we also used her HWOT workbook for the letter I. I have started using this calendar from childcareland.com . They have alot of free printables so she traces the days of the week numbers. I have been using my start write program , to make worksheets with her name and phone number. I love that it has HWOT fonts and all, they also offer free trial. We colored an I and read The Grouchy Ladybug which she really did not seem to like well. I got a lady bug count and graph from childcareland.com that we made as well. I also took some lapbook pieces from homeschool share's The Grouchy Ladybug Lapbook. Danielle's place also had a itty bitty lady bug book so we did that too. We made a ladybug craft and she loved her little bug and we ended that day with an early reader BUGS! book from Hubbards Cupboard . On Thursday she made an I Like lapbook piece from homeschool shares alphabet lapbook and read an Izzy the Iguana mini book from HOAC early reader lapbook. We played with a honey comb that I found in a yard forever ago on a nature walk. We also played with lakeshore learning bee box. Really cool a bunch of bee manipulatives with matching pic cards that tell about that type of bee. We again used Danielle's place for a really cool bee mobile that is proudly displayed in Skyler Bay's school area. We talked about what bees give us, God making all things for a reason and we should really appreciate the bees cause without them all the pretty flowers would die. We read The Bee Tree ate honey off a spoon and made a bee lifecycle wheel from homeschool shares honey bee lapbook. Friday was a quick day she did some insect theme worksheets from The Learning Page . Membership is free and man they have ALOT of free stuff. I know there are thousands of bugs but we just touched on those few the lapbook pieces I will probally just make into a BUG lapbook sometime when I have time LOL. All in all great week. If you would like to see more pics you can go here. My camera is really crappy but I still photograph everything. She had alot of fun and so did I. We are still working on that handwriting as well. Start write is pretty cool for extras.

Week 7

What a very full week we had. Everyday we do the add a number to the 100 chart and go over the alphabet chart of course. This week was letter U the theme being the 5 senses. We started the week off with hearing by making instruments. We made a wacky guitar, a shaker, a drum and sand slides. She had a ton of fun and was very possessive of them. We matched texture letters to pictures and played with The Magic School Bus Arnolds Ear playset. We of course read teh Magic School Bus in the Haunted Museum as well. We did our My Fathers World cut outs pictures to add in the ABC lap/notebook. I mostly use pieces for that from homeschool share. On Tuesday we talked about touch and made oobleck. This was fun and messy and she loved it. She played with her cuisenaire rods and we read Here Are My Hands. Wednesday was sight and for that we played with kaliedescopes then made one of our own. Thursday was for smell and we talked about good and bad her list was great.
Bad good
garbage candles
dumpsters cake in the oven
kitty potty pizza
poop little girls lotion

She was su cute thinking about these. Friday we had a field trip to the Children's Museum. To finish up our week we had a taste activity. Unsweetened chocolate, lemons, plain chips, and fruit snacks. All in all great busy full week and even a slide show to show off! So I hope everyone else had a great week and we are enjoying My Fathers Worlds K so far. The boys did the normal reading, writing, math, language, spelling and as well all the while driving mom nuts!!

Our 2nd week of school Aug 17-21

Back to school cookies and they were yummy!!! Skyler studies the letter M this week for moon and we read so many moon books I think I am good for many years to come on that subject!! The boys continued on with math and started spelling this week. It was a pretty peaceful week that we finished off with a nice long walk Friday night and building school buses at Lowe's this morning.

Our first week Aug 10-14

While alot of this week had been alot of review they did some new things too. Like baking sunbread what fun that was!! They also went to get checked for new glasses. We took alot of pics that you can find here. All in all I would say a great first easy week back. Skyler will finally complete her My Fathers World K and the boys starting out easy with just some math.

Weekly Report

Well some got done some did not. Their daddy was vacationing this week so we lapbooked and played. We went to Chuck E Cheese where Fox spent his tickets on dinosaur bones which led him to build a museum when we got home. That was neat. Skyler did week 1 of My Fathers World K Letter S and The Sun. The boys both made lapbooks from homeschoolshare My Fathers Dragon and had fun doing them. Really big lapbooks by the way!! Skyler made Madeline's Christmas lapbook and I think she had fun too. Hope everyone had a great week and slideshows follow this post!!

Weekly Repost

We did nothing!!!! OK we cleaned, Devlin and Fox did K12, Damian played and the only thing Skyler did was color mixing. We read Mouse Paint and White Rabbits Color Book and used her new science kit to learn how to mix colors. She had a blast and was truly amazed at the fact it actually worked!!!! After she filled up the little wells with mixes she took all the extra and put it into the tub and took a bath.