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This week we were back into school full swing and Kaleb is having a blast! He is constantly by my side and asking what we are doing next. I’m reworking our school setup for Kaleb so that things flow a little better. Of course the moment I get that all figured out, we’ll be transitioning to the new schoolroom! :)
All of Kaleb’s workbooks have been pulled apart and are ready to go for this year. His math book gets him so excited ~ and feeling like a big ol’ smartypants {we’re using Abeka Kindergarten math}.
The Read! Build! Write! mats have been very well received too. :) Right now we’re using refrigerator magnets that I picked up in the dollar section at Target until I get the magnets stuck to the back of the letter tiles. It’s been great practice though, since the letters are uppercase and the vocab cards are lowercase, so he’s having to match the two {he’s working on a few of the camping words}.
One of the other workbooks that Kaleb is using is A Reason for Handwriting K. He’s not super thrilled with the first few pages, but is getting a bunch of other writing practice too.
Every day he works on five or six of the Uppercase and Lowercase Letter Tracing Cards. He likes these a lot…and the clip art on these just makes me smile. We have each set on a jump ring to make it easier to flip through them.
We’ve been reading lots too and are back full time using our All About Reading Pre1 program. Kaleb l.o.v.e.s. the rhyming time ~ especially when Ziggy the Zebra helps out {don’t miss the giveaway going on right now for All About Spelling!}.
That’s it in a nutshell for us this week. We’ll be starting our Before Five in a Row {BFIAR} studies next week and will be alternating weeks between our BFIAR studies and one of the Preschool Packs I’ve put together.
Stay tuned, because next week I’ll be sharing some NEW things that will tie in with the Before Five in a Row books!! I’m so excited and am putting the finishing touches on a few things!
Here’s a look at our upcoming plans for the next eight or so weeks:
~ The ABC Bunny {BFIAR}
~ We’re Going on a Bear Hunt {BFIAR}
~ Caps for Sale {BFIAR}
~ Blueberries for Sal {BFIAR}
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- ABC Printables
- Color and Shape Printables
- Preschool Packs: Star Wars, Camping, Ocean Life and more!
- Math and Counting Printables
- Phonics and Reading Printables
- Preschool Planning Pages
- Preschool Resources Main Page
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What a great week. I am really looking forward to seeing your B4FIAR resources! Thanks for sharing with us!
starting Sunday I’ll be sharing!!
Caps for Sale, Bear Hunt, and Blueberries for Sal are 3 of my favorite BFIAR books! We’ll start back to our BFIAR adventures is a few weeks, can’t wait!
yay for school being back in session! We are going to start on the 22nd! I have through Blueberries for Sal planed out and printed :-)
I love the Read, Build Write mats, I can’t wait to use them with Emily. I am getting so excited for this school year :0)
He is a cutie pie! Thank you so much for sharing your line up. My kids love the letter tracing cards. I purchased your planner this week. It is wonderful! This is my first year homeschooling and I was really struggling with the planning part. The planner has been a life saver! Its so nice because the layout is wonderful, its editable, and I can either print it or save it on my computer..love that! Plus I love that it includes other “mom stuff” planning… Thanks so much!
Thanks so much Meg! I’m so happy to hear that the planner has been a help for you!!! You are most welcome. :)
Caps for Sale was a favorite of mine, and now I have it for my kiddos. Oh – I used some of the elements in the camping preschool pack for a lapbook, it was so much fun and my daughter loved it.
We’ve been using your Robots, Castles & Knights, and Peter Pan preschool packs this week. He’s practicing his writing with them and learning more letters, and then we’ve also been working on coin recognition and value.
I have some coming up that will have money and coins in them!! :)
Hi Jolanthe
I got Zazu Reason for Handwriting A, a couple months back. and same thing. He wasn’t thrilled and still really isn’t. I’ll wait a couple months before I give it to him again. Instead I’ve been giving him the easy peasy letter A-Z printing sheets from Starfall, simple graphics are his thing I guess, just to keep up his printing practice. I don’t want to frustrate him with it, he’s still only five.
I think once we start doing the letters he’ll like it ok ~ but the circles, etc…he isn’t digging. too ‘baby’ :)
What a great first week back! :) I’m really excited to start using the Read, Build, Write mats! Thank you for sharing all of that with us! I’m looking forward to your B4FIAR posts. Not something we are currently using, but we do it indirectly through Homeschool Share. I was wondering if you are having a Fall Curriculum Clean Out Hop?
I just thought about that the other night ~ I’ll have to look at some dates in September and get in gear!! :)
I’m so excited to see your B4FIAR things. Will you be creating printables for those units too? I’ve been hunting down rabbit things for rowing Goodnight Moon, The Little Rabbit, and Runaway Bunny. I try to put three books with an animal in common back to back so I don’t have to rotate through as much of our Montessori shelves! We just got through bears, but there are still more bear books to be rowed. I’m just a bit tired of bears after three books though:)
Just answered my own question! You are awesome. Just found your printables for B4FIAR. We may just row Going on a Bear Hunt and Blueberries for Sal for one more week. If you want to add the link to our activities, you are more than welcome to. I’ll have a second post about it soon. http://theadventuresofbear.blogspot.com/2011/08/before-fiar-were-going-on-bear-hunt-and.html
and Corduroy, for when you get to it, is here
http://theadventuresofbear.blogspot.com/2011/07/before-fiar-corduroy.html
So is Caleb in K or preschool?
I was waiting for that question! His birthday isn’t til the end of November, so technically he can’t start K according to the school system. I’m keeping him labeled ‘preschool’ this year to see how he does and we can always bump him up if we want to ~ ahhh, the joys of homeschooling! Figure it’s easier to bump him up later than to tell him he’s heading back.