Circle Time Day 5

Memory Work: Had Angel Girl sing the first 2 vs of Twinkle Twinkle. We will need to continue to practice this song at other times but I am impressed with how quickly she has picked it up.
Story: Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear
Activity: From Before Five In A Row
Letter Work: Starfall!

Circle Time Day 4

Memory Work: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star vs. 1 and 2
Story: Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Activity: Make paper bag puppets and retell the story.
Letter Work: Trace the letter in a salt tray.

Circle Time Day 3

Memory Work: Continued with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star vs 1 and 2 with the pictures.
Story: Yellow (a board book I got in a set about colors)
Activity: Yellow Hunt, finding items around the house that were yellow.
Letter Work: Coloring sheet.

Circle Time Day 2

Memory Work: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star I made little puppets of parts of the song for Angel Girl to hold as she sang. I also introduced the 2nd verse using the puppets. HERE is a copy of all the verses of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.
Story: Goldilocks and The Three Bears by Jan Brett
Activity: We retold the story using finger puppets. I mostly did the retell and had her hold up the different parts.
Letter Work: We did letter A in her letter book (which she was able to do immediately she loves that it is her name).

Circle Time Day 1

Yesterday was my first day of doing circle time with my Angel Girl. This is what we did.

Memory Work: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (this is a known song but I would like to do more with this this week...did you know there was more than 1 verse.)
Story: The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall (this book is for introducing the letter A)
Letter Work: Using sandpaper letter introduced (ok so A is known but this will be how I introduce the other letters) letter A and had her attempt tracing...she does not have to be able to trace it correctly merely adding a tactile component to the learning of letters.
Religious: Sing I Am a Child of God

Week of June 21st - 25th

There are some changes in our life so for this summer I am planning on doing activities for Sweet Boy based on the week. Then for Angel Girl I plan to just focus on developing a "circle time" which I will post about daily (I hope). So for this week:

Sweet Boy
Story: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Game: Peek-a-boo (yes the game where you cover your eyes and say peek-a-boo, I like to do it with blankets)
Nursery Rhyme: There was a Crooked Man

Angel Girl
Letter Aa
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Color Yellow

Monthly Topic: Schedule/Planning

In 7 day I will be free...from having to go to work outside of the home. This has caused me to consider how to schedule mommy school with 2 children. So the following is my tentative schedule for the next year. Angel Girl will be 3 and Sweet Boy will be 1.

7:00 breakfast (yes we are early risers)

(from after breakfast until circle time is chores and free play time)

8:00 Sweet Boy first nap

8:30 Angel Girl Circle Time: Memory Activity based on common preschool songs, nursery rhymes or simple scriptures

Story: Monday's Book about Letter of the Week

Tuesday's Book about Theme

Wednesday's Book about color of the month, shape of the month, math, and ABC

Thursday's Book about Theme

Friday's Book from Before Five in a Row

Activity: Based on the book read

Letter Work: quick activity about the letter of the week

Religious Instruction: (yes I am religious but I will not be sharing the particulars of this aspect except to say we are doing it daily) This is from a religious text based on Angel Girl's Sunday School classes.

9:00 Independent Activity for Angel Girl This will be a chance for her to do independently something she may have done before or engage in independent art or play

9:30 Snack time

10:00 Outing Doing something outside the house.

12:00 Lunch

12:30 Sweet Boy second nap

Angel Girl read aloud from a chapter book

1:00 Quiet Time for ALL'

2:30 Sweet Boy mommy school time based on Letter of the Week Brightly Beaming Baby and Toddler

3:00 Snack Time

3:30 Angel Girl Center #1

4:00 Angel Girl Center #2 These centers are based on things that I would like her to do with help such as art projects, theme activities, math activities, Kumon books ect

4:30 Free Play Time

So this is our experiment to see if such a schedule will work for us. What kind of a schedule do you have when you are home all day with your little ones?