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?

May Theme

Better late than never right....so for this month lets focus on

INSECTS!!!!

This was always a theme for May in my elementary teaching years so lets share ideas about teaching insects.

Check out this link to Confessions of a Homeschooler. It is an entire Ant themed lesson plan for the letter A. Lots of fun printables!

Month of May

I have decided to start doing themed units so this month we are working on:

Ants!

Many of my activities are ant based.

We are also working on:

Color: Blue

Shape: Circle

Letter: A

Nursery Rhyme/Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Math: Counting to 5

More Changes

So I want to start a monthly topic share. This will be outside of what I "normally" do but rather an opportunity to explore an idea more in depth and hopefully get lots of ideas to use in our mommy schooling endeavors. This topic can be used as a jumping off point for activities this month or just a way to gather a lot of ideas on the topic to use through out the year. Comments are a great place to add your ideas.

This month's topic SQUARE!

What are some ideas to learn about squares?


Here are some of our posts already written about squares.

It's March (well almost)

So I was thinking about what I wanted to do for March.
Here is a list of general topics for the month.
Language: Introduce letters
This will be a very simple introduction. There will be no expectation of knowledge or even remembering. This is merely to start familiarizing her. I am not sure if I just want to go through the alphabet (which is not the most effective method when used with young readers) but the method I use with young readers is starting with letter they know and she does not know any letters. Many programs on line use the traditional abc order for introduction. So I will have to decide soon. I know we will start with A because that is what her name starts with. We will also be making an ABC book that we can use through the years to help her learn her letters. That is all we will be doing so I am thinking a letter a week for now, we will see how it goes.
Math: Counting to 10
Angel Girl is able to count to 5 and has surprised us a few times with her ability to almost count to 10. So we will be doing activities that work on counting to 10.
Color: Green
Its March which means St. Patrick's Day so I think we will learn about the color green.
Shape: Star
Just cause....I have a lot of star shaped foamies so its next.
Music: Singing Nursery Rhymes
Learning and singing nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes are very important part of phonemic awareness (rhyming) and also the knowledge is important for understanding some stories read (ie each peach pear plum). I think we will do Twinkle Twinkly and Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Physical: Balance
Angel Girl is attending gymnastics and loves to walk the balance beam but she does it primarily sideways so I think we will work on walking one foot in front of the other on balance beams (or tape lines in our house).
Science: Sense Smell
Its next.
Social Studies: Community
Learning about places we frequent in the community.
Social: Making friends
Angel Girl thinks that she can just walk up to kids but that can scare them (she is a giant 2 year old). So we will be working on how to be more friendly.