Second Semester, Week 1

We started out homeschooling on the fly. We really had no plan other than to get our DD into a safe environment before something terrible could happen to her at school. We had no curriculum, no guidance, no time to plan. We started out with some kindergarten workbooks from Walmart, an online curriculum (Time 4 Learning), and a lot of prayer. We muddled our way through it, and DD has thrived. She gobbled up any information we gave her. She begged to keep going when we said the day was over. So we finished off last semester with a couple of unit studies cobbled together from various online resources and a trip to DisneyWorld! After a relaxing (?) 2 weeks off (so, Mom was sick for a chunk of it, we hosted Christmas dinner, tried potty training DS, but it could've been relaxing!), we're ready to get back to work.

Our first week back, I decided to do a unit study on winter and snow. We had previously purchased the Let It Snow! Project Pack from In the Hands of a Child and did it as a group- 4 kids, 1 mom, and occasionally a dad when he was home! It was a lot of fun for all of us. Unfortunately for us, all the snow we had here pretty much melted on an unseasonably warm New Years Day, but the kids didn't care.

We supplemented our project pack with Itsy Bitsy Printable's Frosty Days unit and Winter Fun unit (sorry, can't find a link right now), this great winter unit from Musings of Me, this fun pin the nose on the snowman game and create a snowman craft from Spell Outloud, and some of the winter printables from the Winter Fun Totpack from 1+1+1=1. On Friday, we finished off the week by using bread heels that we'd saved all week, spreading peanut butter on them and then sticking birdseed to the peanut butter. We have yet to see any birds trying our birdfeeders, but we did have a lot of fun doing it and have driven our dog nuts trying to figure out how to get them down! We then watched the movie Snow Buddies. As movies are a rare treat in our house, this was a huge hit!

Our birdfeeders ready to be eaten!




Since we do still send DD#2 to 3 year old preschool which is Tuesday and Thursday mornings, we used this time for DD#1 to do some work on Time4Learning. This is in addition to the daily work we do with her sight words and reading.

This week we are going to do a week-long unit study on the characters of the movie Finding Nemo. We'll cap the week off with another movie... Finding Nemo, of course! The kids are all terribly excited to learn about Nemo, especially after our December vacation to DisneyWorld and SeaWorld!