What I’m Using for the 2010-2011 school Year!

Can i just say i am sooo excited about some great finds for this upcoming school year? And I'm just as excited to share them with you :o)

Ok, lets start with Brianna…

Brianna’s 2 year Curriculum:

The main curriculum I'm going to be using is biblical, FREE and just awesome! Its Joyful Learning from Hubbard’s Cupboard. I love this! She has cute themes for every month of the year! And great activities and crafts (and pictures) to go with every theme! AND sensory bins and playdough ideas for every month! And I'm a sucker for those!! I highly recommend you check it out! There is also a 3 and 4 year old curriculum!

Here are some supplements i will be using with Brianna:

Kumon: Let’s Sticker and Paste!

And this set of Animal Baby books i found at a used curriculum sale for $1 total!!!

 

Connor’s 4 year Pre-K Curriculum:

Reading/Handwriting: 

Connor is just started out reading and writing and all that, so he will mostly be working on

• memorizing sight words
• sounding words out/beginning reading
• practicing writing his letters better.

Here is what we will be using:

Christian Liberty Preschool Activity Book(covers letters and numbers and lots lots more!)

Write and Reuse Alphabet Fun book

Math:

He’s mastered counting up to 10 and he recognizes his numbers up to 10. So we are going to mainly focus on

• mastering writing his numbers 1-10
• learning to recognize and write numbers past 10.
• Plus all the other little things that go along with math :) Like working on patterns, grouping etc.

We are using:

Liberty Preschool Workbook (see above)

Sesame Street Counting with the Count.

This book will have him working on counting and writing numbers 1-20. (i found mine at the dollar store!)

Science:

Science is what i am most excited about because i found some great books, perfect for this year!!

I found this book at a curriculum sale and its perfect for this age!

Child’s Play Science

It covers six great topics:

• The Earth
• Plants
• Animals
• My Body
• Air
• Water

There are awesome worksheets to go with each topic.

And to go along with this book, is this!

Science Tub Topics

I was so excited about this find! I didn't know it until i got home, but it has experiments that go almost hand in hand with the topics in the above book! The experiments in this book are great! They are easy to do and great for all different ages.

Also to go along with these 2 books is this Playhouse Disney Encyclopedia that Connor got for his birthday!  It covers so many great science topics, including many that we are going to be doing this year! Its very colorful and fun, which is a huge plus for me.

Along with everything else, i always check out these great sites for supplements, worksheets, activities and inspiration. Please check them out, you will find great things on there!

• 1+1+1=1 (home of the Tot School posts. She also has tot books and she’s home of the tot trays.)
• Homeschool Creations (home of the Preschool Corner posts. She also has great printables and more!)
• Preschool Palace (GREAT worksheets!)
• Making Learning Fun (lots of themes and ideas to go with them)
• Everything Preschool (lots of themes and ideas to go with them)
• Confessions of a Homeschooler (check out her ABC tab for her alphabet printables!)
• File Folder Fun (You will love these file folder games and activities!)
• Kidsparkz (great printables!)
• Scholastic (great printables! Just have to look for the ones that say ‘free’ in red)

Free Adorable Meal Planner

I saw this adorable and free download-able meal planner and i had to share! Go here to check it out! She has a cover page, meal planner pages (with a side grocery list) and a back cover, all of which are super cute! I put mine together in a 3 ring binder for myself and one for a friend for her birthday (i used binders that have the opening in the top of the front and back plastic covers so i can stick the papers inside. I also love the pockets on the inside so i can keep recipes and other things in it):

Front:

Middle:

Back:

I also found this really cute task chart as well, also under the freebies! Too cute!

Enjoy!

Maryland Vacation

We just got back from our vacation in Maryland, visiting my sister and her family!

We had such a great time. We were busy yet had lots of time to relax.

We went to the Baltimore Zoo,

Baltimore Aquarium,

and the Harbor.

My sister graciously watched the kids so Mike and I could enjoy a date! We went to cute Annapolis!

We also hit the beach at the Chesapeake Bay!

My sister also threw my sweet niece a jewelry party. Im sure she will be posting the details on her blog soon if your interested.

Thanks Julie! We love and miss you guys so much already!!

Brianna’s Tot School: Picnics And Baskets

*Just a heads up, we will be on vacation this week visiting family. So this will be the last post until i get back.

Picnics and Baskets:

Brianna rolled a die and put that amount of paper ants into a basket. She still needs my help counting. (i used this link for the ants. And the giant die is from the Dollar Store)

We ate ants on a log.

She sorted silverware into piles of forks and spoons,

and by color.

Using a square stamp she made a red and white checkered tablecloth picture. And she added ants with an ant stamp i had.

Using our real picnic basket, i placed items inside (her favorite toys) and had her guess what it was just by feeling it. I had to keep reminding her not to look ;) She LOVED this activity and wanted to do it again and again.

She glued food items onto a picnic basket. (all are images i found online and copied and pasted into Microsoft Word.)

And we of course had to have a real picnic! We had a simple one, in our backyard :)

Not Picnic Related:

She played alot with her Fisher Price piggy bank.

She looked soo stinking cute on the 4th of July!

She played in our ice cream shop sensory bin.

And put flowers into a parmesan cheese container.

We went berry picking! Can you tell she enjoyed it??

She enjoyed some other fun in the sun too: 

Oh, and i cant forget to tell you that Brianna now sleeps in a big girl bed! (Which yes, does have blankets!)

Our theme starting in August will be oceans and beaches! LOTS of fun things planned for it!

 

*I am using the Joyful Learning Curriculum.