It is time to begin doing a weekly wrap-up, as the boys get older! I will continue on with Tot School posts for Ladybug, and then preschool and Kindergarten with her, like I did with Krash. But I am doing some fun things with the boys, and the kids as a group, and I don’t want to leave those things out since they don’t technically fit into a category. The Weekly Wrap-up is a perfect way to throw some random things together each week! I don’t take photos of everything we do, but here is where I will share what I do capture, either with the boys, or with all of the kids together during our group activities. It will look different each week, or every other week, depending on how much I keep my act together!
I got our new morning board updated to adapt to what we are focusing on this year. Target had this lovely shiny foam board and Pac was shopping with me, so of course we got it.
My main focus during this time is Ladybug and working on the basic calendar type skills {counting, days, months, weather, seasons, etc.}. She is also beginning with the Songs for Saplings verses, you can see letter A in the photo {a few sung by us years ago are in a video on this page}. The flashcard below the verse is from our Tot School Printables set. The yellow page is our “______ of the day” chart which is mostly a review for her too {color, shape, letter, animal, character trait, state}. You can see more about that in this post.
We are learning hymns together {top right} our first is Holy, Holy, Holy. You can see my hymn study pins on my Bible board. I am making some hymn display printables, will share later! We are doing Seeds Family Worship verses too {those are mainly for the boys}.
Ladybug’s favorite part is when we sing the Name-O song {scroll down for video} and she runs the length of the room with her name!
Krash has a few focus areas during morning time, one is making the date with money.
The state of the day is just a quick way to continually review the names, capitals and locations of states. Here Ladybug is coloring on our page {included in our calendar notebook set} She loves to join in with the “big kid” stuff.
World Geography is another group activity, which is based around our current continent box, which is Europe. We don’t really have a plan for this, just explore the box together. Here we were playing an impromptu “find the animal” game. These cards are from our Montessori Print Shop Europe set.
We are using We Choose Virtues as a springboard for awesome discussion. We are also using the Kids of Virtueville Coloring pages. Here the kids were coloring a couple of the kids we have done.
Krash completed his 2nd week of Calvert 1st grade {he completed the first week back in May}. Here are his completed sight words for the week…
His Draw, Write, Now drawing was a pig, we take about 3 days to complete it {1-pencil drawing and word tracing, 2-coloring, 3-background}.
The completed pig…
We had a science experiment flop, one called floating pasta. It didn’t work, but we still had fun trying!
We love our Who Is God study time together. Here he was typing out some Bible verses.
Thanks to Marci from The Homeschool Scientist, we are now actually doing our science experiments. Confession ~ I ignored all science experiments until this year, mostly out of a silly fear. After meeting Marci at the 2:1 Conference, I felt empowered by our little chat and vowed to make an effort this year! Science is one of Pac’s favorite subjects, so he is thrilled that I met Marci!
Our first experiment {from his 5th Grade Calvert science} was using eggs, vinegar, water, and corn syrup. The purpose was to relate the egg shell to cell membranes and how they take in and let out liquid. First, the eggs spent 3 days in vinegar, came out looking like this…
Then they went into water {left} and corn syrup {right} for one day.
They came out looking like this!
Of course, we touched, and poked and really had a great time with the gross-ness.
The little ones get to watch too, Ladybug thought it was nasty, Krash was pretty interested in it all, but also disgusted.
That’s certainly not everything we did, but a glimpse of what my camera captured! To see more weekly wrap-ups, visit…
