Category: Homeschool

Lessons from Ice Day

leslie December 14, 2018 2 Comments
Busy.  Life is just so busy...both in the everyday normal (laundry, cleaning, feeding, cooking, errands...all the stuff), and even in schooling (especially public school- I speak from experience).To slow down means I have to make a conscience effort to stop, listen, and observe the world around me...especially watching my kids learn.  There are treasures all around us... many that I...

Make and Play: Pellet Drum

leslie December 6, 2018 2 Comments
It's a new month, which means a new unit in our Homeschool Preschool from Mother Goose Time.This month we are studying Sights and Sounds with the first week focusing on the Orchestra."By exploring musical instruments, children hear sounds, tones and learn to communicate without words."-MGTToday we studied DRUMS, and it is the percussion instrument my one year old son knows full well and can play...

Preschool Rhyme Time

leslie December 1, 2018 0 Comments
Lately my little girl has been into sounding out words by syllables."Momma, can you say 'ev-er-ett is scr-eam-ing'?" Yes dear, I can.  And I can hear him.  Ugh.By sounding out words into syllables, she can catch rhyming words more often since she can hear the ending sound to the words. On our Bridge Day, my girl built bridges between picture cards that rhymed.This...

Airplane Launcher Craft

leslie November 28, 2018 2 Comments
We've been studying all things transportation this month in our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum, and today was AIRPLANES!I have to admit, when I first saw this Airplane Launcher Make and Play craft, I really wanted to skip it.  It just looked like a little more work for me than my preschooler, but we went ahead and dived in and I am SOOOO glad we did! Check out our...

Alphabet Delivery Truck

leslie November 27, 2018 0 Comments
November has been a rough month on the homeschool front.I am the Children's Director for our church and this month has been insanely busy as we have opened our new Children's area after a fire back in August. Not to mention the Thanksgiving holidays, my husband's 40th birthday, and planning my son's first birthday for December 1st.  Whew.... crazy....So when my friend needed a little...

Transportation Math Game

leslie November 16, 2018 0 Comments
This month we have been studying different modes of transportation with our Mother Goose Time preschool curriculum.  Today we had a math game the my girl loved and we played over... and over... and over.  We ended up adjusting the game to make it a little more challenging in the math department.  Here's how the initial game went:MGT sent us the game board, transportation...

Authentic Assessment: Squirrel Math

leslie November 1, 2018 0 Comments
First, please accept my apology for such awful photos.  I don't know why my camera on my phone has such a hard time focusing.  Ugh.But I wanted to talk about Authentic Assessment today.Wikipedia defines it as:"Authentic assessment tends to focus on contextualised tasks, enabling students to demonstrate their competency in a more 'authentic' setting. Examples of authentic assessment...

Creating Caterpillar Patterns

leslie October 28, 2018 0 Comments
I don't know about you, but it has been raining ALL month long here. However we still have tons of fun when we are stuck indoors thanks to our preschool curriculum: Mother Goose Time.  We've looked at all the parts of a tree including the trunk, roots, and branches, but on this particular day, we studied LEAVES.Our day began with the story of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle.In...

BOOK Bug Scavenger Hunt

leslie October 17, 2018 0 Comments
We are spending time studying the orchard this month with our Mother Goose Time.  These last few days we have studied all sorts of animals that visit the orchard including: raccoons, porcupines, birds, squirrels, and today we looked at bugs!Our Mother Goose Time STEAM station had us going outdoors to complete a fun Bug Scavenger Hunt.  Unfortunately the weather is not cooperating...

Preschool STEAM Station: Pounding Colors

leslie October 11, 2018 0 Comments
Last week we began our Orchard Harvest unit from Mother Goose Time, and it had an awesome STEAM Station involving flowers.  STEAM stations are learning stations that revolve around Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, or Math.  In this case, the STEAM station is focused mainly on Science, but I would also say Art. So last week, my 10 month old son decided he was not going to...