Homeschool Week 19

Animal Tracks! This would be way more fun if we had actual snow but this year winter seems to be delayed.


We will be using the same two work books we have been working through for a little but now. They are morning starters an educational workbook that I found at Dollar Tree and my first book of color craze, which was also found at Dollar Tree. The book we are working on this week is called "school" by Scholastic. We have also started doing our letters on paper this week we will be covering E, F, G he loves that after he finishes doing each row of letters he gets to do a letter in his own name! Our science experiments came from "The USBORNE big book of Experiments".

Day 1:

Sight word Play flash cards, this week we are reading the book lunch by scholastic, writing, workbook, animal tracks worksheet, ABC Mouse

Outing: Playgroup

Day 2:
Sight word Play work sheet, reading book Lunch, science, workbook, animal tracks video, ABC mouse

Outing: Skating


Day 3:

Sight word Play flash cards, reading book Lunch, writing, workbook, Animal tracks at the park, ABC Mouse

Outing: We are going to check out animal tracks and see if we can figure out what animals left them.


Day 4:

Sight word Play work sheet, reading book lunch, science, workbook, making animal tracks with paint, ABC Mouse

Outing: Skating

Day 5: 

Sight word Play flash cards, reading book lunch, writing, workbook, ABC mouse, animal tracks video

Outing: Library

Homeschool Week 17: Continents

With New Years and everything else it works out to be a short week this week which is fine for use as we get back into the swing of things.

We are using two work books this week. One is My first book of color craze, and Morning starters an educational workbook PRE-K. Both books I found at out local Dollar Tree 
We are also using The Usborne Big Book Of Experiments and reading This Pig Can Fly by Scholastic.

Week 17
Day 1

Sight word "be" handmade flash cards, workbook, ABC Mouse, continents video, read, science.

I watched all of the continents videos for his age group and found that this one was the one I liked best.

Outing: Play group


Day 2

Sight word "be" worksheet, workbook, ABC Mouse, continents colour map, read, science.

Outing: We are going to do a couple of our kindness acts.

https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/432275264215001369/?lp=true

Week 14. Fireworks!

The workbooks we are using this week are Morning starters that I got from Dollar Tree, My First Book Of Color Craze that I got from Collar Tree. The book we are reading this week is The Pig Can Fly by Scholastic.

This week requires a bit a of prep, mess and lots of changes of clothes.

Day 1:
Sight word "are" handmade flash cards, workbook, cut straw painting, ABC Mouse, book

Outing: Tumble Time at Bluewater Cheer Athletics

Day 2:
Sight word "are" worksheet, workbook, sponge painting, ABC mouse, book

Outing: Skate/Playgroup

Day 3:
Sight word "are" flash cards, workbook, toilet paper roll painting, ABC Mouse, book

Outing: Playgroup

Day 4:
Sight word "Are" hunt, workbook, coloured salt art, ABC mouse, book

Outing: skate/library

Day 5:
Sight word "are" worksheet, chalk art, ABC Mouse, book, workbook

Outing: Homeschool Chat and Play.

Week 13 Christmas activities

Finishing up with the ABC sticker book we are moving onto My first book of colour craze its by flowerpot press and I am pretty sure I got it at Dollar Tree. Its another sticker book which helps break up the doing of the other school work.We are still using Morning starters an educational workbook that I likely got at Dollar Tree as well.

This week are reading the book Playful Puppies by scholastic.


Day 1:
Sight word "you" handmade flash cards, workbook, Christmas tree shape sort, ABC Mouse, book

Outing: Tumble time at Bluewater Cheer Athletics and Random Act Of Kindness

Day 2:

Sight word "you" worksheet, workbook, Christmas lights counting sheet, ABC Mouse, book

Outing: Skate/Playgroup and Random Act of Kindness

Day 3:

Sight word "you" flash cards, workbook, Christmas Sense of smell, ABC mouse, book

Outing: Playgroup and Random Act Of Kindness

Day 4:

Sight word "you" hunt, workbook, 5 little reindeer, ABC Mouse, book

Outing: Library and Random Act Of Kindness

For 5 little reindeer I found the song here.  Then I cut everything out of felt and made it an activity.

Day 5:

Sight word "you" worksheet, workbook, Gingerbread house, ABC Mouse, Book

Outing: Homeschool chat and play

Week 12: Arting it up with preschool!

I know I am off on my blog posts so I am starting from this week for the homeschool posts, yes we do home school every day but the laptop tends to give me a headache when I sit at it for any length of time so I am keeping it short until the brain injury heals.

Week 12 (it is actually the last week in Nov. but we are calling it the first week in our Dec. for home school purposes)
This week is all about art appreciation. This is exciting for me because I love ALL forms of art, not so sure how exciting it will be for Blaine but we will work on it.
The workbooks we are using is the Morning Starters educational workbook, I think I got it at dollar tree, and we are almost finished with the My First Book Of A,B,C Letters.
I don't post it in my posts but I really should. We also read 1 book during school time and this week that book is At the zoo by scholastic. We read it each day with him reading the words that he knows.

We are also going 35 acts of kindness for our bored this month.





Day 1:

Sight word "with" handmade flash cards, workbook, learning about Michelangelo, paint like Michelangelo, ABC mouse, book

Outing: Grandbend Museum 

 Day 2:

Sight word "with" worksheet, workbook, learning about Monet, paint like Monet, ABC mouse, book

Outing: Playgroup/Skating

 Day 3:

Sight word "with" flash cards, workbook, ABC mouse, book

Outing:  The local art Gallery

Day 4:

Sight word "with" hunt, workbook, learn about Picasso, paint Picasso faces, ABC mouse, book.

Outing: Skate/Playgroup

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Day 5:

Sight word "with" flash cards, workbook, perfect squares, ABC mouse, book

Outing: DeGroots centre pieces.

Week 8: The proposal

Nov!! New month, new units, new adventures to be had!!!

We are using workbooks My first book of ABC letters and Morning starters an educational workbook PreK.

Last month we did the thankful tree which turned out amazing if it would have just stayed on the freaking all. This month we are going ALL ABOUT ME! this mean he has to come up with things about him such as likes, dislikes, physical features, strengths and weakness, etc. It should be a lot of fun!

This week is our frog unit, how exciting!

Week 8
Day1
Frog Life cycle book, workbook, sight word my, ABC mouse.
Outing: Gymnastics


I cut out frog shapes to make the book and made sure there were enough pages to to do the whole life cycle. He made the eyes for the book because I couldn't find my googly eyes. I printed off photos of the life cycle of the frog and he had to paste them in the book in the right order and in his words explain that stage of the life cycle.


Sight words where flash cards I made myself.

Gymnastics is always a blast and is done at bluewater cheer




Week 8
Day 2
5 Little frogs felt bored, Workbook, Wight word my, ABC mouse.
Outing: Music and Move

I hand cut 5 frogs, 1 log, 1 pond from felt for the felt bored and we did the song 5 little speckled frogs with him taking one off and saying how many were left.



Music and move is put on my St.clair Child and Youth






Week 8
Day 3
Frog life cycle work sheets, workbook, sight word my, ABC mouse.
Outing: Marsh to look for frogs


The work sheet I found here.



The wet lands around the pounds is always a great place to try and spot frogs.







Week 8
Day 4
Frog VS toad video, workbook, sight word my, ABC Mouse.
Outing: Skating


The frog video I found here is perfect for preschool and can be found here. I paused the video when she asked questions so he had time to answer.


Week 8
Day 5
How many frogs to sink a lily pad, workbook, sight word my, ABC mouse.
Outing: Chat and Play

I cut a lily pad from paper and 1 from card stock and he is to guess which will sink first and how many frogs it will take to sink each one.

Chat and Play is a homeschool get together for kids and parents, it is done weekly.

Week 5: The PLAN!!!

I really need to come up with a better title for those plan blog post but I am not sure what I should call them. Any ideas?

Week 5
Day 1:

Leaf Hunt and sort, sight word "Can", workbook, ABC mouse.

Outing: Park

I really love making my own flash cards for the sight words as they can be alter to what our needs are. These ones for today say "Can", "I", "Like", "The", "And".

For our leaf hunt and sort. We have a paper bag and we went for a walk around the block to fill our bag with different leaves that we seen on the ground only, no picking.

http://laurengregorydesign.com/projects/morning-starters-workbook/

Our workbooks this week are the Usborne first numbers and stickers as well as Pre K morning starters by The clever factory which I got at Dollar Tree.






Week 5
Day 2:

Parts of a leaf worksheet, sight word "can", workbook, ABC mouse.

Outing: 4-6 year olds book club and nature walk with st.clair child and youth centre




The leaf worksheet that I found from this website!



Sight word "can" worksheet here.


This is will be our second attempt at book club! We are going!




Week 5
Day 3:

Leaf Painting, Sight word match, workbook, ABC mouse.

Outing: Kids discovery and gathering leaves


Leaf painting will be with leaves we gather on another walk around and finger paints.

Sight word match I made myself and its just using the flash cards! Just make sure you have pairs of each word.


Kids discover is put on by the EarlyON centres.

Week 5
Day 4:

5 Little leaves, sight word "can", workbook, ABC mouse

Outing: Skating and homeschool chat and play

This is the sight word sheet I used.

5 Little leaves poem I found here. I cut the leaves, bird, tree, and bug out of felt for the felt board.


Skating is done at the local arena and it is free and mainly little guys which is awesome for learning!

Homeschool chat and play is done at a different park or location each week and I am not sure which one I am going to choose this week.


Week 5
Day 5:

Leaf Letter Match, sight word "can", workbook, ABC mouse

Outing: Homeschool group Korny Korners

Leaf letter match I found here I just printed them in black and white instead of colour as its just matching letters not colours.

The sight word "can" is just a colour page.

Our outing will be at korny korners with the homeschool group. We will do a hay ride, pick a pumpkin, play in bounce houses, see animals, do a corn maze and just have an all around blast!

Homeschool Week 1 THE PLAN

We are not following a homeschool curriculum right now. We are taking a little bit from each one that I think he will enjoy and trying it out. If he likes and it works, great, if not then we move onto something else.

This is my plan, do I see it going forward 100% not a chance because 1) he is having surgery on the 4th of Sept. 2) He is a 4year old and 3) Well life with a child who has SPD, OCD, Anxiety and low on the spectrum means nothing goes to plan 100% of the time.
As long as Blaine is feeling better the goal is to start Sept 10th.

I have broken all of the learning down into months, weeks and days.

This is what week one looks like:

Day 1:
Sight word "I", a page in his workbook, colour mixing and his journal. Plus our outing which today will be Kids Cook
Sight word activity is cards I made on card stock, cut out and laminated.
The work book we are using right now is called Pre K Learning Essentials
Colour mixing requires 6 containers, paper towel, water and Red, Blue, Yellow food colouring!

http://parentingchaos.com/conversation-hearts-pattern-math-worksheet/

 

 

 

Kids cook this is program put on for 3-6 year olds by the EarlyON Centres. We have never been before so it should be a lot of fun!!!

Day 2:
Sight word I, Workbook, Rainbow Craft and we will be book club and Nature walk.

The sight work activity for today I found on google which I will include at the bottom of the blog.
A page from the workbook.
Rainbow craft I got the idea from pinterest

Book Club for 4-6 year olds is put on the EarlyON Centres. 
The Nature Scavenger hunt/walk it is for 0-6 years and is put on by St. Clair child and youth centre.  

Day 3:
Sight word I, workbook, colour train and After School Discovery Fun for 3-6 year olds.
Sight word activity is the same as day one but with different small words paired "I DO" etc
A page from the workbook
The colour train idea came from of course Pinterest.

After School Discovery Fun for 3-6 year olds is put on by the EarlyOn Centres and a play based program to explore and experience the natural world. 

Day 4:
Sight word I, work book colour scavenger hunt and we will be doing the weekly shopping.
This letter I activity is a work sheet that I found on google. I will include it at the bottom of the blog post.
One page from his workbook
Colour Scavenger hunt is another idea I found of course on pinterest. We will being doing it during a neighborhood walk with the dogs. 

Weekly Shopping doesn't sound much like an outing but it is an important one. He helps me read my list, find the items that we need, helps me pay, bag and the learning from shopping is limitless.

Day 5:
Sight work I, work book, I can sign a rainbow felt board activity, the outing will be play group.
I used different I and small word cards IE "May I, Can I"
1 page from the workbook
Once again Pinterest to the rescue for this colour activity!!! I can sing a rainbow, I cut circles of the colours from felt as we sing the song he will find the colour and put it on the felt bored.

Then it is the weekend and there is no "school" on the weekend!

I store everything in a binder. 1 binder per month. The big stuff is put into those mini totes and labeled with the week on it. Everything is precut and ready to go so there is no panic or stress. Inside my binder I have folders and freezer bags with the paper things that are cut inside them so they don't get ruined.

My "I" Sight word cards. Once I get to the parent centre they will be all cut and laminated.

Each day have the plan on piece of lined paper at the start of that day.

This is the construction paper in a freezer bag for the rainbow craft

My colour hunt bag. I feel handles are better for little ones

The start of each week has its own divider page.

My Plan for week 1 will likely not go as planned but its going to be fun to actually see how everything turns out!! I will blog about the first week and maybe each week after that including where I get my information and other ideas!

Sight word "I" work sheet I found on google

Preschool

My search started in September 2016 for a preschool, an actual preschool not this day care stuff. I work from home my child doesn't need daycare and I wanted him school prepared not babysat.

First off you need get on the waiting list early because spots at a real preschool are very hard to come by. I was picky about what I was looking for an happened to find it in a town about 20 mins from us.

The teachers are amazing, the school is amazing and it is, I am pretty sure, the only one like it anywhere in our area.

Children in the PELP program attend 2 days a week for 5.5 hours, if its a month with an extra week we have to pay for those two days which isn't and issue at all. They are served 2 snacks and hot lunch everyday. Each parent is asked to bring in snack once a month for all the children which I don't mind doing at all, it allows me to get creative. Once a month parents have to go in and clean for about an hour.

If you haven't guessed its a co-op and it is a not for profit which for me is amazing! I helped as much as I could this year with anything they needed and I will be joining the bored of directions in Aug, heres to hoping I get the Vice Present spot that has been vacant for far to long.

Blaine was smart from the get go and when I got his review in June he was doing great in all aspects! There were a couple things we need to work on his F's they come out like B's (He says bish instead of fish, sounds like bitch lol we all get a good giggle). He couldn't pull his pants up over his diaper, which he can now do and he can't put his own coat on.

The school runs on the support of the government which is bare minimum, support of the parents and the community as well.

At first he would cry every day when I dropped him off for about 20 mins, but after a week he was doing great and talks about his friends there still. Now that its summer he misses school a lot.


Originally I wasn't going to send him to preschool at all, figured whats the point if I want to home school. I decided the social aspect of it was important for him, he loves other kids and loves playing with them, even gets sad when they have to leave the park.

As a parent who was picky about where my son went and what he would be doing all day I suggest you don't give up, call every preschool, go visit, spend the time getting to know the teachers and environment your child will be learning in and never ever forget to follow your childs lead if after a few weeks they still freak out when going then something could be wrong! Follow your childs cues, ask questions even at 2 they can tell you what they like and don't like, communicate with the teachers and if your child is still not comfortable there find another one. Your childs first experiences with education can make or break them for life just remember that!