Honestly my first opinion was wowww this is an overwhelming amount of work for children at home. I started looking through it and there’s a lot that can be integrated with one another. So that’s what we are going to do over here! I had to organize her packet and prep to try to maintain some sort of normalcy, keep our days running somewhat smoothly, and limit the amount of meltdowns. 🤞🏼
Play is the highest form of research- Albert Einstein
Social Studies week 3 and Science week 1: Seasons 🌳 🌼🍁❄️ These two should be integrated in my opinion. Brainpopjr.com has some good videos on Seasons that we will utilize. There’s a daily writing prompt that can be doubled up as one of the Social Studies assignments “my favorite season is…” There’s also two assignments we can get a two-for-one deal on… the tree picture. Teaghan is going to Q-Tip paint the trees for each season to make it a little more exciting. (See example below per Pinterest) For the winter vs. summer bear 🐻 drawing, we will make a big cardboard box into a hibernating cave. They threw a random day of Transportation in Social studies, but you can talk about the jet mentioned in The Big Trip and turn that same oversized cardboard box into some sort of vehicle. 🚗 ✌🏼😎
Season Sensory/STEM Play Ideas
Spring– build your own flower garden 🌸
Summer– Kinetic sand, 🐚s and a few sand toys!
Fall– popcorn kernels, spoons, bowls and 🚜s!
Math I don’t mind the math week 1 activities. To make “missing numbers” a little more fun we are going to hide the numbers 1-20 around the play room, she’ll find them and put them in order. After they are in order, she’ll close her eyes and I’ll take some away. She’ll have to figure out which are missing. Same concept as the worksheet but more hands-on. We will utilize HopScotch for skip counting by 10s. For the Board 2.. we will use both “digit” and number card sheets and play the card game WAR with them. Board 3 we will hide numbers again around play room and then proceed with that game once they are all found and placed face down.
Reading: Ice Cream Poem I wrote the poem on the back of a big laminated poster I had.. to act as a white board. She can point with a princess wand or pointer as we read it and she can circle rhyming words with dry erase marker. We will read a recipe on how to make homemade ice cream and make it. I recommend Mo Willem’s book, Should I Share my Ice Cream? for reading. If you don’t own it.. there are some Read Aloud videos of it on YouTube. There’s also a writing prompt of favorite treat. We’ll do that one this week, too.
Reading: The Big Trip story. Make it a little more exciting by putting some hats and sunglasses in a suitcase for your child to open and play with/get dressed up in.. set the mood for their imagination to be thinking of going on a trip. Work on journal prompt about going on a trip.
“Morning work” well that will be alllll those worksheets within the reading packet.. while my coffee is kicking in and I’m trying to get my life organized, Teaghan can be independently working on those beginning/middle sound, rhyming worksheets. Same with the A-Z tracing.. she can rainbow write it if she wants, or be as creative as she wants, or not. If we get through these great- if not, that’s okay too. I put them all in a separate folder for her to grab and go.
Preschool sibling-
I’ve stated before, my biggest obstacle doing this “homeschool” thing is both girls want to be doing the other’s activity. Want what you can’t have. FOMO. Idk but I am trying to set myself up for success here so I thought of some activities Rowan can be doing based kinda around Teaghan’s work. Ice cream counting with Pom poms and sorting in bowls, playing with her ice cream truck, sorting a pile of her clothes into different seasons and putting on a fashion show (this should entertain her for awhile)! 👗🧥🧤👙
Pumped for Preschool! 