Our Homeschool Calendar and Morning Board

On Monday, we embarked on a new homeschool, year. Over the summer, I decided to update our Homeschool Calendar.  I had been looking at examples from fellow bloggers and printed several great files to use. I created a few of my own to add our Calendar Area.  This year, we are using a large Pocket Chart we purchased at Wal-Mart several  years ago to use as our Calendar Area.

We have limited space

How we plan to “row” our homeschool year

I mentioned in our recent post on our curriculum that we will be using Before Five in a Row with our youngest son.  There are about 24 books that are mentioned in the BFIAR book (a few are out of print and difficult to get).  I looked into what our public library system has and found out they have all titles but four.  We have about 5 books in our own home that I had purchased through the years

Our Homeschool Curriculum 2011-2012

 
I know that I have not posted much recently but we have been busy enjoying our summer vacation. For the last several months, I've spent a great deal of time thinking and planning for our new homeschool school year.  Early on, I knew some of our curriculum choices and ordered throughout the year as we could afford them. 

In truth, we did not get everything on our wish list so I managed to

Our 2010-2011 Curriculum

This is our second year participating with the Annual Not Back to School Blog Hop which this year is being hosted by Heart of the Matter each week in August. This week’s discussion is curriculum, sharing what we have decided to use this homeschool year.We have grown a lot this year as a family and I do not mean physically (although you could say that about the boys). We have some subjects that we

2nd Annual Not Back-to-School Blog Hop is back!

Back for its second run, the 2nd Annual Not Back-to-School Blog Hop returns this year to share 4 weeks worth of homeschool links, wisdom, fun and a peek into the lives of homeschoolers!

It started last year at Life with My 3 Boybarians and this year the torch has been passed down to Heart of the Matter, who wants everyone to get excited and geared up about your homeschool year!

There is still a

Homeschool Village: Heart for the Art

This week’s topic at the Homeschool Village is A Heart for the Arts, sharing what you plan on teaching for art.We never used a purchased curriculum for ART before, we've been happy just making arts and crafts from open ended art, StArt projects, and projects related to our unit studies. Most of what we make is made from recycled items and it teaches the boys how to find other uses for items. We

Art Caddy and some fabulous finds

We have seen during the last two months some bloggers display their handmade art caddies on their blogs. I had been meaning to find materials to make with the boys but when we saw these adorable plastic ones at Target, we could not pass them up, They were $2.50 each and made of sturdy plastic. We found ours in the Target dollar section so we bought two, one for each son.



While there, we

Curriculum planning, shopping and saving some trees

I know it was been quiet around here but I have been busy. I worked on our curriculum plans for 2010-2011 during the last few months after looking at what worked best for our family and what interest the kids.

This year had been difficult for us financially so I was faced with some thinking on my part on how to afford getting our homeschool materials on a tight budget.

During the last several

My plans for our curriculum 2010-2011

For the last several months, I have been thinking about what books and materials we will be using when we begin our new homeschool year 2010-2011.

I looked at what worked for us this current school year and what did not, what areas we needed purchased curriculum and supplemental materials. We stayed with the same curriculum for Handwriting, spelling, phonics, and science. We are making changes

What we have left for our 2009-2010 school year

I was looking at what unit studies we have left and it looks like we may end our school year at the end of June. That gives us a month in July for a break and family vacation time so that we can resume in August with our new homeschool year.


When will you be ending your school year with your children?

Our Homeschooling Plans for the New Year 2010

Plans for 2010
We were planning on resuming our homeschooling week on January 4th but with the boys sick with the flu that changed. We are starting back on January 11th.

This past week in addition to taking care of my two sick boys, I devoted the time to cleaning the home and on reviewing our homeschool materials.

With respect to homeschooling materials I mainly looked at curriculum (what

Our plans: Curriculum

We are participating in a "Not Back to School Blog Hop" sponsored by Darcy at Life with my 3 Boybarians each Monday in August. This week's discussion is about curriculum.

Well, we made changes in our homeschooling materials from last year. This year we added purchased curriculum while still using free online resources.This is my three and a half year old son's first year homeschooling and he is

Curriculum for the Fall

I don't buy curriculum much because for one I get it through Paperback swap, our local homeschool group's book/curriculum exchange and I make my own lessons for most subjects. I am still continuing to make our lessons about but I am supplementing this coming Homeschool year and changing our math curriculum.

For Phonics, I have decided to try using Explode the Code to add to what we are currently

Our Preschool Schedule: Letters and Themes

I have been working on our schedule for Homeschool Preschool. You can see our schedule below. I uploaded the PDF file at Scribd. Just click on the link below if you would like to use as a schedule for your child. The unit studies listed in ( ) can be used for an older child if you have children with multiple ages like I have.Preschool to Pre-K Letter and Theme Schedule May - Dec. 2009 ** The link