School is in Session!!

So this past week I started doing a lesson a day with the kids for about 15-30 minutes, depending upon how attentive they were. Each day we add one thing to our board. On Monday we started off with a Theme and a Vocabulary word, then Tuesday we added a shape or color, Wednesday we added a letter, Thursday we added a number and Friday we finished up with a nursery rhyme. 


Completed Board (Learning Poster) at the end of the week

Tomorrow we will have a new theme, but everything else stays on our board.  So you are basically incorporating something new everyday to learn while continuing to reteach what is already on the board.  I have really been wanting do this for a while.  I mean, this is one of the reasons I wanted to stay home: to teach my children.  With the exception of Jase wanting to be the teacher Mon-Wed everything went great.

Here is what we learned this week: Cows/Calf/Square/A/1/Hey Diddle Diddle.  We also learned interesting facts about cows.  For example, did you know that cows can smell up to 5 miles away?  They also have 4 digestive parts in their stomach and we even got detailed where they chew their food, swallow it, spit it back up and chew on it some more (aka cud).  Jase was very intrigued by these facts.  And Allyson can now tell you that a baby cow is a calf!!

A couple of the days we had a snack while I was reading or they were working.  Some of the fun snacks we had: square wheat thins with greek yogurt dill dip (cow), mozzarella string cheese (cow) and ice cream (cow).

By the end of the week both of the kids loved it and enjoyed the activities we did and of course stickers!! Allyson now thinks it is sticker time all the time!! I am hoping to keep this in our M-F daily routine.