Princess and Fairy are still working toward finishing up their k12 curriculum for this year.
We have a meeting Tuesday with a homeschool charter that will allow Princess to work at her own pace and is going to test her to find her actual knowledge level. She will be starting next year. They also provide money for extra classes and she is looking forward to Tahitian dance.
The preschool set will be working on the letter B, number 1, and simple addition. We have library Monday, and Thursday also.
This week we are also going to start practicing for our end of year graduation. I want to provide them with a fun graduation since we have a kindergartner graduating to first, and a preschooler graduating to kindergarten. I don't want to separate out all the others so they will all be joining.
Princess will be saying a poem.
Fairy, Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby girl will each have their own songs. Then they will all sing Brown Bear Brown Bear.
I have to finish planning but I want them to have something great to remember.
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Thursday, April 18, 2013
This week
This week has been really busy. We have had to school around looking for new tires for the truck and going to pick up school forms for Buddy and Princess. Princess has decided she wants to try a charter school that gives us lots more freedom than CAVA. We will be registering next week.
Princess attended this homeschool charter school for Early Enrollment Kindergarten. They do suggest what you should teach but you also write down what you covered and can jump around as needed. I will be able to follow her interest more and she can learn the way she chooses. I was very happy before with this school and I do believe she will enjoy this year more than she has the last two years of repeat work we have been doing.
For preschool we worked on Shapes and Patterns in Math. We worked on the Letter a and practiced writing.
Princess has managed to finish about 65% of this years work with CAVA, we were at 20% in Jan.
Fairy is at 70% complete in her work with CAVA and that is an improvement from 50% in Jan.
They are working very, very hard.
Princess attended this homeschool charter school for Early Enrollment Kindergarten. They do suggest what you should teach but you also write down what you covered and can jump around as needed. I will be able to follow her interest more and she can learn the way she chooses. I was very happy before with this school and I do believe she will enjoy this year more than she has the last two years of repeat work we have been doing.
For preschool we worked on Shapes and Patterns in Math. We worked on the Letter a and practiced writing.
Princess has managed to finish about 65% of this years work with CAVA, we were at 20% in Jan.
Fairy is at 70% complete in her work with CAVA and that is an improvement from 50% in Jan.
They are working very, very hard.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Week of April 7, 2013
Princess will continue working on completing all her CAVA work.
Fairy will also continue working on Completing her CAVA work. She will finish all of her Lit Skills by the end of the week.
Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby Girl will be working on the Letter A.
In Math they will work with many different patterns.
In Reading We will go over letter sounds A-O this week. Bumble Bee will also read a simple book.
Princess and Fairy will have time work on Study Island, a fun online program that CAVA provides.
Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby Girl will have time to work on The Head of The Class and ABCmouse.com for a few minutes each day.
Monday we will go to the Library after nap time to read to dogs. Wednesday we will also be going to the library in the afternoon but this time for PJ story time. Thursday mornings from now on will be at the Library for Preschool Story time.
Fairy will also continue working on Completing her CAVA work. She will finish all of her Lit Skills by the end of the week.
Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby Girl will be working on the Letter A.
In Math they will work with many different patterns.
In Reading We will go over letter sounds A-O this week. Bumble Bee will also read a simple book.
Princess and Fairy will have time work on Study Island, a fun online program that CAVA provides.
Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby Girl will have time to work on The Head of The Class and ABCmouse.com for a few minutes each day.
Monday we will go to the Library after nap time to read to dogs. Wednesday we will also be going to the library in the afternoon but this time for PJ story time. Thursday mornings from now on will be at the Library for Preschool Story time.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Websites for Preschool and Kindergarden Reading
I forgot on my last post to add all the websites we use for Preschool and Kindergarden reading. There are many sites, some of them are for more and you will see them through my blog.
We use abcmouse.com for fun and to reitterate what they are learning.
Starfall.com is an excellent reading site and you do not have to pay for it.
http://www.readingbear.org/ This is a fun phonics website.
http://www.lessonpathways.com/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fPlan Has plans for preschool reading.
http://www.theheadoftheclass.com/Default.aspx Is fun and the kids love it.
http://www.progressivephonics.com/ Is an ok site.
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/theme_station.shtml This has lots of themes and the kids love the activities.
I hope some of these sites help you.
We use abcmouse.com for fun and to reitterate what they are learning.
Starfall.com is an excellent reading site and you do not have to pay for it.
http://www.readingbear.org/ This is a fun phonics website.
http://www.lessonpathways.com/Account/LogOn?ReturnUrl=%2fPlan Has plans for preschool reading.
http://www.theheadoftheclass.com/Default.aspx Is fun and the kids love it.
http://www.progressivephonics.com/ Is an ok site.
http://www.preschoolexpress.com/theme_station.shtml This has lots of themes and the kids love the activities.
I hope some of these sites help you.
Monday, April 1, 2013
This week April 1, 2013
Princess is hard at work trying to catch up on work from CAVA. She fell behind when I was sick and then she got sick. It has been a bad year. We are about half way through the school work for the year with 2 months left. Luckily she knows most of the work and we tested completely out of Phonics. This week I am going to test her to see what we still need to work on this year. Since we are working on our own next year it will not matter to much.
Fairy is about 20% behind and has now decided she does not want to work anymore. I had to tell her today that if she wants to go to a public classroom next year and be in first grade then she had better get to work. She is able to test out of a lot of things too this week.
Bumble Bee worked on reading today. We went over letter sounds, short a words and ending sounds in a word. She did really well. I was proud of her.
Buddy and Baby Girl decided not to do any class work today.
Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby Girl will continue working on Letter Sounds and the Alphabet in general. We will also be talking about time. The hands on a clock and what they mean.
Well I have to go get the kids up from nap so we can head off to the library.
Fairy is about 20% behind and has now decided she does not want to work anymore. I had to tell her today that if she wants to go to a public classroom next year and be in first grade then she had better get to work. She is able to test out of a lot of things too this week.
Bumble Bee worked on reading today. We went over letter sounds, short a words and ending sounds in a word. She did really well. I was proud of her.
Buddy and Baby Girl decided not to do any class work today.
Bumble Bee, Buddy and Baby Girl will continue working on Letter Sounds and the Alphabet in general. We will also be talking about time. The hands on a clock and what they mean.
Well I have to go get the kids up from nap so we can head off to the library.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Science and History
Next year for Science and History my kids will all do the same curriculum but in a different way. We will be using a mixture of Magic Tree House and Magic School Bus for these subjects.
Every other month we will be reading a Magic Tree House book. Then Princess will come up with a project on the subject of the book. She will be allowed to act, draw, make a model or write a report on the subject of the book.
The months we do not read the Magic Tree house we will watch an episode of the Magic School Bus and study that subject in depth for a full month. There will be science experiments, research and lots of fun. Princess will be required to do a month long project to present at the end of the month for Science also.
The younger children will be doing arts and crafts and small projects that they can do hands on. I want science and history to be lots of fun.
When we start school in July we will not do either. These lessons will start in August. We will start with Dawn of the Dinosaurs. We will discuss prehistoric history and paleontology. I am hoping that they will enjoy the lessons. We will be coloring dinosaurs. Talking about prehistory times and whether or not cave men lived in the time of the dinosaurs. If they believe they did then how would they survive? If not then what were the dinosaurs like and how did they relate?
It should be interesting to see.
Every other month we will be reading a Magic Tree House book. Then Princess will come up with a project on the subject of the book. She will be allowed to act, draw, make a model or write a report on the subject of the book.
The months we do not read the Magic Tree house we will watch an episode of the Magic School Bus and study that subject in depth for a full month. There will be science experiments, research and lots of fun. Princess will be required to do a month long project to present at the end of the month for Science also.
The younger children will be doing arts and crafts and small projects that they can do hands on. I want science and history to be lots of fun.
When we start school in July we will not do either. These lessons will start in August. We will start with Dawn of the Dinosaurs. We will discuss prehistoric history and paleontology. I am hoping that they will enjoy the lessons. We will be coloring dinosaurs. Talking about prehistory times and whether or not cave men lived in the time of the dinosaurs. If they believe they did then how would they survive? If not then what were the dinosaurs like and how did they relate?
It should be interesting to see.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Reading
Today I am going to address next years reading program. We will be using our local library. I have a book list that we will be reading for Literature.
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Little House Series
Peter Pan
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Boxcar Children series
The Magic Tree House series
The Chronicles of Narnia series
I will be using a website and the 3rd Grade Complete curriculum for grammar. Princess will also be required to pick out one fiction and nonfiction book to read on her own time. Each week she will also hand in a book report one of the books she read in her free time.
Here is the website I will use for grammar for Princess.
http://www.sfreading.com/resources/ghbgrd3.html
She also enjoys this and I use it to check her comprehension.
http://bookadventure.com/Home.aspx
With Buddy and Baby girl there are several websites that are fun for them to play on but they will only access one per day for about 15 min. I set a time limit because I want them to not get to attached.
I have Hooked on Phonics K and Phonics Factory for Phonics for these two. We will be reading several books also.
Here is their book list.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Stella Luna
How do Dinosaurs series
The Alphabet Tree
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
and many others from the library
These two little ones will get to choose whether they want to do school. I am not going to force them to sit quietly for more than a few minutes. I have letter magnets and a chalk board and dry erase board for them to play on, and small quite toys for them to play with when they do not want to do school or I need to work with Princess.
The Phantom Tollbooth
The Little House Series
Peter Pan
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
The Boxcar Children series
The Magic Tree House series
The Chronicles of Narnia series
I will be using a website and the 3rd Grade Complete curriculum for grammar. Princess will also be required to pick out one fiction and nonfiction book to read on her own time. Each week she will also hand in a book report one of the books she read in her free time.
Here is the website I will use for grammar for Princess.
http://www.sfreading.com/resources/ghbgrd3.html
She also enjoys this and I use it to check her comprehension.
http://bookadventure.com/Home.aspx
With Buddy and Baby girl there are several websites that are fun for them to play on but they will only access one per day for about 15 min. I set a time limit because I want them to not get to attached.
I have Hooked on Phonics K and Phonics Factory for Phonics for these two. We will be reading several books also.
Here is their book list.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Stella Luna
How do Dinosaurs series
The Alphabet Tree
Three Billy Goats Gruff
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
and many others from the library
These two little ones will get to choose whether they want to do school. I am not going to force them to sit quietly for more than a few minutes. I have letter magnets and a chalk board and dry erase board for them to play on, and small quite toys for them to play with when they do not want to do school or I need to work with Princess.
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