Tag: homeschool pre-K

Homeschool curriculum pt 6

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling, kids, life, school/studying

Science!!!!!!

We mix Blossom and Root’s nature study with The Good and The Beautiful’s little hearts and hands science Wind and Waves and Fields and Flowers. I try and pair them loosely to the seasons and things we might see or experience.

My oldest is a smidge young for both but if I find a good connecting book or something he really gets into it. My youngest is just a long for the ride at this point hahaha.

For example we just did the water cycle. I found a great library book that my son loved about a drop of water going through the water cycle and that brought it alive for him.

Water cycle experiment

Homeschool Curriculum Pt 4

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling, Uncategorized

For math we started with The Good and the Beautiful level K and weren’t doing too bad but I did not feel like he was getting any mastery from it.

After thinking that, I decided to check eBay for a used copy of right start math to hopefully add some mastery in. Now we are switching back and forth between the two curriculums to go back and review some instead of continuing on.

Homeschool Curriculum Pt 3

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling, Uncategorized

This curriculum is about our grade level for sure but I am using it as an introduction to geography and other cultures. Basically we just find the country on the map, watch a few YouTube videos, read a few books from the country and make a recipe from there and try and do a simple paper craft.

We do one country every few weeks. No rush for us to get through it.

Homeschool Curriculum Pt 2

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling, kids, life, Uncategorized

This is another curriculum I use with both kids

This curriculum has

A seasonal song that we don’t do- the kids just weren’t feeling it

An emotional intelligence section that I really like. You never think about needing to teach kids to identify their feelings and the feelings of others.

Weekly inquiry – this is a short section on something in nature that they say you can feel free to explore further at the library. I try and find a few simple picture books each week on this at the library that we can read through

Literature, Literacy & Poetry- there is a weekly book to read with a question or two to ask in response to the book, an excerpt out of a seasonal poetry book ( i did the poetry at first but the kids weren’t into it so I stopped) and a letter to study from a book called doodling dragons but we already have a pre-reading curriculum we use so I didn’t get that book.

Art- some of the projects from the art book are really cool but they are a little advanced for my kids. I have the art book but don’t really use it. I do like a lot of the projects though so I think in a year or two we will start working our way through it as an extra fun thing to add into our weeks.

There is a math curriculum they suggest but we use a different one I’ll tell you about in another post

Science – they use the ‘look I’m a scientist’ and ‘look I’m a ln engineer’ books which I have but I only sort of like them. Some of the experiments are a bit older for my kids and some just seem like a waste of time.

Connections project – each week there is a little something to do to connect to the week’s theme and reading.

They also suggest some videos you might like and some supplemental reading on the main subject

Homeschool curriculum 1

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling, kids, Uncategorized

I am constantly adding, subtracting and adjusting our schooling to work best for our family. I also pull from a lot of different sources and curriculums so each week I will tell you a little about what we are currently doing/using for our 2024 pre-k/super early preschool with my 3 yrs old and my 21 month old. Almost everything I do is with both kids because my youngest wants to be included in everything so I just bring her along.

I use this with both kids

This is a 36 week curriculum. Each week there is a section for Nature study, math and science (which is anything from counting blocks to talking about sunscreen safety and use.), art, music, community/kindness, literature/read together and kitchen classroom.

We usually at least touch on the nature ( we have other nature curriculums), the math and science are hit or miss for us sometimes we do it and sometimes we don’t (we have other math and science curriculums).

I love the art and music sections. This is broken down into 4 week chunks and in each chunk you learn about a different artist and musician.

Community/kindness is hit and miss for me. Most of them we don’t do. I enjoy the literature selections and we cook together anyways, I wish the kitchen classroom gave you suggestions.

Getting back at it

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling, kids, life, Uncategorized

Getting back to school and routine after the holiday chaos

This was our first full week back.

Monday

We got to an outdoor ‘farmschool’ preschool 1 day a week mostly for socialization and new experiences

Tuesday

We did a pond study

They are loving their sticker books

Thursday – we studied spiderwebs

We read Eric Carl’s ‘The Very Busy Spider ‘ and made a giant spiderweb.

Friday

Art. These were circle collages
We made a rabbit burrow. I was a fox and chased my little rabbits around trying to eat them hahahaha.

There was also gymnastics, a trip to the library, letter recognition, a little math and so much more thrown in.

The week went much smoother than I thought it would. We did have normal young kid tantrums and issues like that but the school part went great!

September homeschool retrospective

by Ariana Peters, posted in homeschooling

Thursday September 7th

I woke up at 6:30am, the baby was just staying to stir in her crib. I got Ella up at 6:50 and made coffee.

Put Roberts and Ella’s entamology pen pal clubhouse letters in the mail. (We just started this from an Instagram account called Mornings together, we get a new little packet each week emailed to us, I print it out and the kids color it then we mail it to a family member. As they get older it has a few questions and some facts along with the coloring).

Robert woke up at about 7:15, I fed ella and snuggled with the kids for a bit. We had breakfast burritos just after 8:00. While we are I read the kids ‘How to Make Apple Pie and See the World’.

Then I unloaded the dishwasher while they played and colored. After that we worked on Robert’s good and beautiful math lesson number six. After that we went outside around 10:20am Robert fed chickens while I started laundry. We swung on our swing set and at popsicles. I watered the yard while they swung.

At 11 we walked to the corner market to get chips for lunch. The kids had tomato soup with grilled cheese and chips, I had a ham sandwich, soup and chips.
After lunch they played with daddy while he was on lunch, then we got ready for a nap run. I ran 3 miles while they napped.

When we got back I set them in front of the TV with some ice cream so I could take a quick shower. Daddy came out and sat with them for a couple minutes.

After I showered we did our tea time where I read to them and we have snacks. We read a few passages from what your preschooler needs to know and the book ‘H is for honey’. Then we completed all about reading pre-reading for the letter f. Then Robert did some practice with scissors while cutting papers and then they both did some dexterity work by threading animals.

After we finished our school work, my husband told us Starbucks having a deal on their foul drinks. So I loaded the kids in the car and we drove through Starbucks and then since we were out and it was close to dinner we drove through Taco Bell haha.

We ate dinner as a family. Then the kids took a bath then played with their daddy while we watched sea shanties and other songs on YouTube. My son is currently obsessed with the shanties.

My daughter was asleep by 7:25pm, and my son was asleep by 9. We have been having some big bedtime battles with our toddler. But I think it’s slowly going back to normal knock on wood.

Then my daughter was up from 10:30pm- 12am. I couldn’t get her back to sleep in her crib so she came into our room and took another 2+ hours to fall asleep…..it was horrible.

And that was our day.