Classroom Signs

Some signs I made to start our new school year:

I saw this on pinterest and was inspired and had to make it. It's a reminder to myself that I want to teach my kids character, not just textbooks.

I know I will be saying this to my oldest throughout this school year! (Just spray painted a piece of wood someone was getting rid of and wrote words with the kids' finger paints.)

2012-2013 Homeschool Plan

Weekly Unit Studies

Date	TOPIC
27-Aug/31-Aug	Calendar/Whole Body Listening/Name Practice
3-Sept/7-Sept	Seasons
17-Sept/21-Sept	Seasons
24-Sept/28-Sept	Weather
1-Oct/5-Oct	Weather
8-Oct/12-Oct	Creation
15-Oct/19-Oct	Bugs
22-Oct/26-Oct	Bugs
29-Oct/2-Nov	Halloween
5-Nov/9-Nov	Community Workers
12-Nov/16-Nov	Transportation/Road Signs
19-Nov/23-Nov	Thanksgiving
26-Nov/30-Nov	Adam & Eve
3-Dec/7-Dec	Adam & Eve
10-Dec/14-Dec	Christmas
17-Dec/21-Dec	Christmas
22-Dec/30-Dec	*Christmas Break
31-Dec/4-Jan	New Years
7-Jan/11-Jan	5 Senses
14-Jan/18-Jan	5 Senses
21-Jan/25-Jan	Noah’s Ark/The Flood
28-Jan/1-Feb	Noah’s Ark/The Flood
4-Feb/8-Feb	Health
11-Feb/15-Feb	Valentine’s Day
18-Feb/22-Feb	Plants
25-Feb/1-Mar	Plants
4-Mar/8-Mar	Emotions
11-Mar/15-Mar	St Patrick’s Day
16-Mar/24-Mar	*Spring Break
25-Mar/29-Mar	Easter
1-April/5-April	Easter
8-April/12-April	Where I Live
15-April/19-April	Where I Live
22-April/26-April	Landforms (Mountains/Rivers/Oceans/Valleys/Deserts/Local)
29-April/3-May	Landforms (Mountains/Rivers/Oceans/Valleys/Deserts/Local)
6-May/10-May	Time
13-May/17-May	Time
20-May/24-May	End of Year Review/Party!

Nehemiah's (age 4) Learning Goals (in addition to what is implied from unit studies): advance reading skills, story interaction, learn sight words (ie: name, the, a, I, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does, colors, numbers, ), know vowels (a, e, i o, u), handwriting letters, rhyming, describe positions (ie. above, below, in out, by, behind,...), color mixing (ie. blue+yellow=green), patterning, sequencing, greater than/less than/equal to, count to 100 by ones and by tens, writing numbers, describe 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, state changes (ie. liquid to solid), improve gross & fine motor skills,

Reading:
Read BOB books as well as stories related to unit study. Do craft projects, re-tell stories (felt board, act it out, verbalize it as mommy writes it, puppet show ...)

9:00-11:00 Three-five days a week.

Elijah (age 3) Learning Goals: no set learning goals. Planning on him doing schoolwork with us and letting him pick up what he can.

Letter Pp Week (And Rest of Year Wrap-Up)

We finished off P with some activities and did a fun pom pom activity to boost motor skills and counting.

 We only made it through letter P and then summer hit. We finished up our letter book and number tracing and letter tracing pages and shape practice that we've been doing all year. We also finished up our ice cream scoop colors and will leave that up for next year. Here's the only picture of the world-wind of work we did in a few weeks:

Can't wait for the new school year to come soon!