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Read All About It
Happy Women's History Month! With read across America Day being tomorrow, we have decided to combine the two and focus on reading books written by female authors. We will also spend a little time learning about women authors and writing a book of our own.
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A Class Of Their Own
This week we will focus on influential groups such as the scientists/mathematicians who inspired Hidden Figures, The Tuskeegee Airmen, the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Greensboro four. We will watch a short video, read books about their accomplishments, and do a short corresponding activity.
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Icons & First
In celebration of Black History month, our lessons each week will highlight the accomplishments of inconic African Americans. This week we will focus on icons & first by watching a short video, reading books about their accomplishments and doing a short corresponding activity. Our Verse for the Week The fruit we are covering this week is Faithfulness. We will watch a few short bible lesson videos and discuss their content and application to our every day lives " 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law -Galatians 5:22-23 This Week’s Academic Focus Math: Patterns / Additions Facts Reading: Reviewing ing ending…
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Artists & Athletes
This week we will focus on artists & athletes such as players in the Negro Baseball League, Poet Maya Angelou and Prima Ballerina Misty Copeland. We will watch a short video about their lives, read books about their accomplishments and do a short kid friendly corresponding activity
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Inventors
This week we will focus on inventors. Focusing on inventions that young children are familiar with, we will read books about the inventors and their inventions and even recreate a few of their inventions ourselves.
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Adventure Awaits
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.
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Lessons Plans
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…
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The Kindness of a King
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.
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Celebration of Me
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
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Goal Setting
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,…
