What's in the Box.... Kindergarten... January

Ryleigh is currently in her Kindergarten Year.... and I thought I would share some of the things she works on each day.... because I like seeing what others do for their school day :-).... We are using the work-box method... and some of the subjects rotate in... some things that Ryleigh frequently works on but are not "featured" in this post are: McRuffy Press Science (Kindergarten), Sequencing workbooks, Maze and drawing Workbooks, Geography, Fun reading books, Seasonal Crafts and Projects, etc. ...... she also attends preschool with Braeden so she gets plenty of arts and crafts, fine motor and baking done there :-)

All About Spelling Level 1... 

 First Grade Singapore Math... 

we started with Math U See.... but this is a much better fit for us!

 Kindergarten Handwriting without Tears...

 All About Reading, Level 1... Ryleigh is midway through the 3rd reader...

 so I will move her to Level 2 Mid semester...

 A hidden pictures page... for fun...

 Sight Words... She is halfway through the Primer Dolch Words...

 this day she did a graphing project from The Moffat Girls..

 We usually pick a couple of pages from the Big First Grade Book,

 if there is time at the end of our school day....

 The picture of her Spanish flashcards did not show up...just a bright glare...

so I took a picture of the Binder that holds the cards ;-)

 Enjoying the perks of homeschooling... doing her sight words comfy style.....

 Posing for a picture...

 Working on her Spelling.... Braeden is helping... 

We use this board for both All About Spelling and All About Reading...

http://www.weirdunsocializedhomeschoolers.com/category/weekly-wrap-up/

Curriculum 2011-2012 Tot School and K4

I have finally finished the official *until I change it* curriculum for both classes... I will have 4-5 children for K4 and 6-8 children for Tot School.... I am beyond excited!!! That being said...the curriculum is really a list of goals for us to hopefully accomplish this upcoming school year... whether or not that actually happens....we will have to wait and see...

TOT SCHOOL (Ages 2 & 3)

• Circle Time
• Calendar
• Days of the Week
• Months of the Year
• Holidays
• Counting
• Number, Letter, Shape, Color of the Week
• Songs
• Pre-writing
• Lots of Tracing
• Mazes
• Drawing Lines to Match Items
• Pre-Reading Skills
• Recognizing Capital Letters and their sounds
• Letter of the Week Craft
• Find the Letter –Upper case
• Correlation between sounds and object: A is for apple...
• Alphabet Box
• Math
• Number Recognition and counting 1 -10
• Sequencing
• Patterns
• Matching
• Puzzles
• Recognizing shapes
• Sets & Logic - Which one is different/ does not belong
• Science
• Baking (although I suppose this could also go under Math)
• Very Elementary Chemistry
• Units
• Farm Animals
• Plants and Flowers
• Ocean/ Sea life
• Weather
• Seasons
• Fruits/Vegetables
• The Five Senses
• Hot/Cold
• Projects and field trips
• Music
• Singing
• Learning about other instruments, rhythm, dancing
• Art
• Colors
• Mixing Colors/ Color Wheel
• Shades of Colors
• stART projects
• crafts
• Fine Motor Skills
• Practice Cutting
• Fine Motor Activities
• Clothespins, Transfers, stickers, etc.
• Gross Motor Skills
• Catch & Throw
• Kicking a Ball
• Obstacle courses
• Listening Skills/ Following Directions
• Sensory Bins
• Practical Life
• Button snake
• Zipping
• Snapping
• Cutting
• Lacing

Anticipated Purchased Curriculum:

*Hand Writing Without Tears

K4 (Age 4) – Typically they have done Tot school and preschool already

• Circle Time
• Calendar
• Days of the Week (Review)
• Months of the Year
• Holidays
• Counting
• Number, Letter, Shape, Color
• 1-100 Days of School Countdown
• Weather
• Make the Date in Change
• Spanish
• States (all 50)
• Songs
• Writing
• Writing Capital Letters (Review)
• Writing Lower Case Letters
• Writing sight words
• Writing Numbers 1-100
• Reading Skills
• Recognizing Capital and Lower Case Letters and their sounds (Review)
• Beginning sight words
• Letter Blends
• Correlation between sounds and object: A is for apple...
• Rhyming words
• Beginning Readers
• Reading Comprehension
• Story Telling
• Math
• Number Recognition and counting 1 -100
• Counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100
• Sequencing (Review)
• Patterns {Review}
• Puzzles
• Value of coins and dollar bill
• Telling time to the nearest 15 mins
• Addition facts through 10
• Subtraction facts through 10
• Opposites
• Sets & Logic - Which one is different/ does not belong
• Measuring to nearest inch(review)
• Weighing objects
• File Folder Games
• Science
• Baking (although I suppose this could also go under Math)
• Units
• Farm Animals
• Plants and Flowers
• Ocean/ Sea life
• Jungle Animals
• Weather
• Seasons
• Fruits/Vegetables
• The Five Senses
• Hard vs. Soft
• Heavy vs. Lite
• Float vs. Sink
• Hot vs. Cold
• Dinosaurs
• Levers/ Pulleys
• Projects and field trips
• Geography
• Compass
• North, South, East and West
• New York- In depth
• 50 States (Names, General Regions, Capital)
• Continents – passports getting stamped as we study different parts of the world
• Post Card Exchange to track on classroom map
• Projects and field trips
• Intro to Spanish
• 1-20 Numbers (review)
• Numbers 21-100
• Colors (review)
• Days of the Week, Months of the Year
• Household and classroom objects (glue, table, phone, stove, etc.)
• Simple Phrases
• Music
• Singing, learning about other instruments, rhythm, dancing
• Intro Music theory
• Art
• Colors (Review)
• Mixing Colors/ Color Wheel (Review)
• Shades of Colors
• stART projects
• crafts

• Fine Motor Skills
• Cutting (review and more practice)
• Learning to Tie
• Fine Motor Activities
• Clothespins, Transfers, stickers, etc.
• Gross Motor Skills
• Catch & Throw
• Kicking a Ball
• Stopping a Soccer Ball with foot
• Passing a Soccer Ball with feet
• Dancing
• Obstacle Courses
• Listening Skills/ Following Directions
• Sensory Bins
• Practical Life
• Dialing a phone
• Address and phone number
• Tying Shoes
• Anticipated Purchased Curriculum:
• *Hand Writing Without Tears
• *All About Spelling/ Reading
• *Road Trip USA/ Expedition Earth
• *K4 Expansion Pack

To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.