This is our little work station on a short wall of the kitchen near the table and chairs. Our week is in slots and our appointment calendar is above that. We have a number line, a 100 number chart, rebus Pledge of Allegience, sight word index card holder which is actually modern art from our trip to the Nelson Atkins Museum, a skelaton, various junk, and magnetic calendar and chore chart with room for time and math practice. Pizza Hut Book It Chart and Where the Wild Things Are Poster for the upcoming movie.
We also have three bookcase filled with books, video, and music and tubs of art and science supplies that are in the laundry room. Homeschooling has taken over our entire house.
Week 0 was a week to set up daily rituals. Most we have kept, but some have gone to the wayside already. Every school day we begin with:
Graphing the weather for the day.
Add to our current pattern strip.
Update a magnetic calendar and magnetic chore chart.
Use a tally sheet and a 100 number chart to count the first 100 days of school.
Make a journal entry in Ben's Math Journal M-TH and Personal Journal on Friday.
We then count out and make change with money as a mini-game.
On Monday's we also add two words to Ben's Personal Dictionary and alphabetize his sight and spelling word index cards.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays Ben goes to Tae Kwon Do lessons.
We are trying to go weekly to a program through one of the surrounding libraries that is usually science related or a performing arts program. And will add different field trips as they come up that are mainly performance arts such as puppet shows, a musical, a ballet, a play, etc. We will do some work on percussion/rhythm instraments at home this year and add music lessons next year. Probably guitar lessons or violin.
Pictures from Week 0
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