August
8/18/2010
Spanish: Colors, numbers, food
Found the Crayola site. I love all the free printables and craft projects!
We’ll be studying Beethoven. We’ll play some of his works for the boys as they prepare for bed and I ordered a movie from Netflix about Beethoven (and NO not the dog movie).
7/18/2010
We are gearing up for the new school year. The boys and I have worked semi-steadily throughout the summer. I’m trying to figure out math. I want to go with Saxon, but may stick with Singapore Math since that’s what we know. We’ll be focusing a lot on spelling. Each week Luke learns to spell 10 new words. We’re using the dolch words as our starter list. We’ve been using the Children’s Book of the Bible for our Bible time. It has a ton of Bible stories and information about the Bible such as what family life was like, animals and plants of the Bible, religious customs, etc. After we read a story we always follow up in the Bible so that the boys can see where each story can be found. Abeka for reading. I’m using the same books I read in elementary school. Fun. We’re also choosing one composer and one artist every month to cover art and music. I’m hoping to make use of Zoo Cases to help flesh out science.
5/2/2010
We are learning about the human body! Luke learned about taste buds from our dentist and kept asking questions about them. Then we found The Magic Schoolbus: Inside the Human Body book. We’ll also be reading the Usborn Flip Flop Body Book. I found some great, free, worksheets here. We’ll also be reading this interactive article. (please be careful at that site. Not all the videos are kid-friendly)!
Puzzle maker! Make your own word puzzles! Great for spelling lists!
12/28/2010
2/7/2011
Social Studies
8\24\2011
Phonics: Explode the Code 4 and 4 1/2
Penmanship: Horizons
History: Abeka
Math: Saxon
Science: we’re starting off with a health and safety curriculum I found at the teacher’s store
Art: Cool hands-on/art history book
More science: A whole years worth of stuff
Free Thanksgiving printables.
Making Music Fun