Home-SU-Cool

In case anyone is interested, this is how we do school in a small NYC 2-bedroom apartment. We do school at the dining table. Afterall, it IS the place where many amazing conversations were held! Not too different from last year .  First, our board is simpler. oh wait. There is NO BOARD! =) hahaha...I used the paper rings as a border and that will be our "Jesus" Poster this year (for Adventures). I use poster tack to put the verses up. Then, our morning board is simpler too. Trying to cut clutter in the house. The map (I really should have gotten TWO maps, instead of flipping the US map and world map back and forth) is under the vinyl cover. I REALLY like the map there...by the time we REALLY want to study the states, I think Ian would have memorized the map after SOOOO many months of looking at it! Alright, here's the corner.hmm...quite a mess, but I TRY!!!   Morning Board + Kindergarten board (I'm only putting up the card, and the phrase for the week...

GREAT books. We LOVE them ESPECIALLY caps for sale. I think I (and big brother) already read like 10 times. Girl is very independent on the morning board now. I'm very proud of her! I love the new (used) Cuisenaire rods and book we got! Leaves Math ( I got this one here ) Drawing Page Tracing page Writing on her own Making Leaves and Lion (since it's also "L") cookies. Not pretty, but tastes WONDERFUL! Got the recipe here Leaves Rubbing CAPS FOR SALE SOOO Fun! I made the worksheets into a lapbook/folder game kind of so we can reuse it. Thank you, HomeschoolCreations ! PRESCHOOL You can get more info from the top page "MFW K/1st, L-Leaves" We are going on vacation next week and I hope we can continue the "L-Leaves" unit while we are there, picking leaves, making rubbings and all...

  Tactile "s" (we didn't get Laurie, we got the $1 from Staples. ;P)   Sun Dot-to-dot   Arranging the cards and singing A-a-apple song   Handwriting     A collaborative project: The Sun Plate   Finished project (it is good to have ONE project in the house)   Big brother wanted to do his own version   Yup! Back to the cutting and pasting   I really like the new Math pages   She was quite good in the drawing page.   Morning Board (Yup! I definitely make things A LOT easier for me this time around, compared to here )   Earth and Sun   Books we read PRESCHOOL   The pre-preschooler was very happy she did the puzzle   Dot-a-dot worksheet   Shadow game (a new folder game we got here . Will use it for leaves too) Resources for S-Sun, see here

This is how we organize school this year. (I suppose it'll change as last year did, so I'll edit the post again at the end of the year) 1st, I do the lesson plan s. More elaborate for 1st grade (I'm trying to find a way to upload it here on my blog). Easy for PreK (I merely try to put down 3 activities/workbooks for her everyday). Preschooler also joins us for the activities of 1st grade if it's appropriate. 2nd, I put stickies on the pages of the workbooks/books etc that Ian was to do that day. Put them in the different subjects tabs in the workbox . Then put the workbox tag up. Every time we finish an activity, he takes the tag down and go to the next one. I'm trying to retry the workbox, since it didn't work last year . I'm hoping to train him in this method so that when the other kids need more work, he can be more independent. Our morning board . He can do this independently now. *Days of school *Date *Weather Chart *100 chart *Jewish ...

Another unit done! For the moon unit we did -moon phases art (using sponge to color) -Rocket art (the astronaut from here ) -Lantern (to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival) -Space Shapes -Pony Beads Glow in the dark moon - Goodnight Moon Lapbook (the favorite is the bear cards) -Read and watched " papa please get the moon for me " and " Goodnight moon " and other Moon books -did a retelling of the "Little Bear" story -Learnt about the moon online -Made a moon phases calendar and watched the moon every night (will continue to do so) I wanted to do the Moon Cake, but didn't for the 1st 5 days. Maybe we'll do it tomorrow, after some time outside, or while we go on vacation. We also made up a Morning Board which I like very much On it, there is the "Days of school" (and addition of it), bible verses, weather, Today's date, moon calendar and the 100 chart. There are other stuff that people do for morning board that I l...