The Stuff

For our school day

I thought I might write a bit about what curriculum and extras we use and how we use it.

To begin with we use Abeka for reading/writing and math. It is an older version and it teaches the kids cursive handwriting, mind you, I only have the cirriculum/lesson plan books, I use the cirriculum as a guide for daily lessons.

Along with the curriculum books I received a few of the extras. I have several of the "learning to read" books, and flash cards for learning how to blend letters to form words.

I purchased this little book at Staples, it features each letter of the alphabet in uppercase and lower case as well as words. I like to rip apart work books and make copies, for reuse, because I am sure I will be using these again next year for the younger two, who don't start Pre-K until next year.

I picked this up when I picked up the curriculum (at a local used curriculum sale). This is really geared toward much older children, but we still sing the songs, tell the stories and participate in the discussion, this usually blends with our culture education (which is not as fancy as it sounds). I appreciate this book because it really does attempt to create wonderful humans.

Everything is color coded. My son (youngest), loves blue, my middle loves pink and green and my oldest loves purple. This is my son's box, and that little folder is his work for the week, separated by paper protectors, typically I try to put the days work in the front left pocket so as soon as they open their folders their work is right there.

These are the station regulators, if you will.

They're attached by Velcro so I can change things up, on Friday's there are no stations in their folders (Friday's are dedicated to review and crafts).

3 is science station

2 is math

1 is reading/writing

6 is the TV (culture class usually)

4 is their easel

and 5 is the reading station.

Eventually I will share the station set ups (and school room) you can get a small glimpse of the stations from this blog post I made. Station 5 also acts as a calm down corner, it has a lot of windows and there are calm down bottles (water bottles with glitter in them).

Thanks for taking a peak and tell me, how do you home school?