Homeschool!

 I’ve decided to try and homeschool Lexi for preschool at home. Here’s what our first week looks like (all materials are from this great website). I will our homeschooling in the mornings if we don’t have a playdate or something else and in the afternoons, after nap, if we do have somewhere to go in the mornings. Our theme this week is: Ocean

 

Monday: Lexi with mom, I work Mondays

Tuesday: 1. Nomenclature Cards (pictures of ocean life with their scientific names)

                  2. Coloring the letter "o" for ocean

                 3. Bible Memory Verse: "And God said, "Let the waters under the Heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear. And it was so."

                 4. Large Motor: My Gym gymnastics class (plus social)

                 5. Social: I have women’s Bible study that morning, so she’ll be with other kids in the church nursery

 

Wednesday: 1. Pattern Cards (making a pattern using different ocean life cards)

                        2. Graphing (she rolls a dice onto a paper with different ocean life on it and colors in a square. At the end we see how many times it landed on the fish or whale, etc). 

                       3. Tracing: help the fish get home (she’ll trace lines from fish to their house to practice writing)

                      4. Memory Verse work

 

Thursday: 1. Music-Little Rockers class (plus social)

                   2. Nomenclature Cards

                 3. Color by number: starfish

                 4. Beginning sounds: (Fish, Wave, etc)

                5.Memory Verse

                  6. How Many Fish? (she places cards with different fish on them in the "ocean" and then places the correct # next to them)

 

Friday: 1. Tracing the letter "O" 

              2. Memory Verse

               3. Nomenclature Cards

               4. A Memory game with ocean life cards

              5. Which one is different? (with ocean life)

 

In addition, I’ll fit in the following whenever we have time:

1. Reading these books: Ocean Peek a Boo, Noah’s Ark, I Spy in the Ocean, Finding Nemo Just Keep Swimming!

2. Video: Numbers Ahoy by Leapfrog

3. Playing with toy sea life in her sensory bin

4. Paining an ocean and adding fish stickers

5. Acting out the Bible story of Jonah and the Whale