Our lesson plan this week will focus on Adventure. We will read books about bravery and courage and do some exploring in our own outdoor spaces. We will also learn about the benefits of trying new things.

Full disclaimer:  I am not a  professional educator   However,  like many of you, Covid has forced me to take on the role of  “teacher”   and develop weekly “lesson plans” for my now home-schooled pre-k aged daughter, Ansley.  Using a Kindergarten assessment from Education.com as a baseline for what she needs to work on, we settled on the potpourri of programs below.   Hopefully, she will be more than ready for Kindergarten this fall.  Reading:  For reading,  we most heavily use Hooked on Phonics (the books and the app).    We have worked much of the way through the first-grade curriculum and we often supplement it with leveled readers from Learning Dynamics,  Kindle unlimited, and…

It seems these days, we could all use a little kindness, so this week we will focus on celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King and the kindness he promoted even when faced with hate.

Happy Birthday Ansley! We are excited to celebrate our sweet girl and the wonderful things about being who God created us to be this week. We will focus on literature and lessons that are filled with messages

You are  42% more likely to achieve your goals by writing them down which is why kids need to learn from a very young age the power of setting goals as well as how to achieve them.  Each year we tape large pieces of paper onto the wall and encourage our children to write down their goals for the year.   We then review those goals, organize them into categories, and write out the steps necessary to achieve them.  We keep record of the goals in Evernote.  We periodically review the goals and it is amazing to see how many of those goals are reached over the year.  This week,…