Week Before school

This week is busy and yet it's a week of relaxing for our student. No planned
activities for K but due to me needing to get things ready K is having to do a lot of running around. My plans are made for the next 3 weeks now it's just gathering all the supplies and Putting things in the right folder for next week. Now I am having fun as I am making all my example projects so getting to cut and paste and just have some fun activities to do while I sit in front of the TV on the floor cutting and pasting. Tonight will be file folder games for the next two weeks for our stations time. Then tomorrow I am hoping to get things all laminated and our bulletin board all put together. Wish me luck with all the stuff that I need to get down this week.

Oh yes I am crapped for time to get it all done as I was under the weather all of last week so lost a week of time to get this all done. YIKES but I'm feeling better now so that is a good thing.

7 Days until school starts



Student Photo's are Friday.

Our Homeschool

Yes if you didn't know this is our school page. Which our school is at HOME. Yeah we are at home but we still have a schedule. We get up and get dressed and say the Pledge and have bulletin boards that are all done up each week.

We go on Field trips at least once a Month to some fun educational location. Yeah we even have trips planed to Universal for our Dr. Seuss week. How fun is that going to be? We'll tell you when we're done with it. Maybe seems weird but they have a whole Dr. Seuss themed area and we'll spending the whole week learning about Dr. Seuss and then ending with this life size area at the theme park.

I am spending a quarter of my summer planning for this next school year. Writing out lesson plans and getting all the books needed and getting bulletin board supplies and setting up the classroom space etc. So yeah Homeschooling at our house isn't just you do school work when you want to but a set schedule that we plan our events around..OK Not the dentist as he only allows under 8 in the A.M. But all other appts., Playdates, shopping, sports etc. around our school schedule. We have an Uniform for when out on Field trips that say our school name on them. Why? Because I think it's important for Son to know that when he is in that shirt that this is more then just out and about that he is doing a school activity. And also let's others know that we are there doing a school activity. Some places actually ask that students where school gear or a name tag that states school and teacher for protection of students. Makes them stand out to the crowd of tourist. Yes even HOMESCHOOLERS. Yeah we only have 1 now but in the future our clan will grow and then my 2 eyes will have a Major job to do tracking all of them.
So yeah our Uniforms will help me as well to keep track of son/children. Might as well start from the start of the school years. Now we do wear the uniforms at home sometimes but not all the time. At home would be worn when Evaluator's are here or school video's are being filmed.

YES WE HOMESCHOOL AND YES WE ARE STRUCTURED

Books arriving UPDATE

Horizons Reading and Phonics <--In the mail to arrive soon
Horizon Math workbooks <--Arrived today


Main books for Kindergarten will all here on our shelf's By Monday. Then it's just down to all the small things like glue sticks and drawing papers and flash cards and on and on.

Then Class room decor in the works is Bulletin boards <--Yes even HOMESCHOOLs have the FUN bulletin boards

Books are arriving

The books are starting to arrive.

What books are here.

Horizons Math Teacher Guide..Workbooks are still in the mail
Horizon Health
Sight words books A
Homework Big book

In the works

We have found our science series..These are a few of the books in the series. This year we will do the Stage 1 set. Now our science will be more then just these books but we will be using these books as our guides through out the year. I found these at Barnes and Noble a few months ago but the more I looked for science books for Kindergarten the more I heard about this series and the more I just kept coming back to them. I am really excited to gather the books that BN.com didn't have for our science area.



Math books are ordered and will be on their way soon. After months of going through the many different Math books they have for Kindergarten we have chosen to go with Horizons.

My file cabinet is starting to feel up little by little..I am determined to get ready little by little over the summer months instead of having a HUGE rush in July getting ready for our August start date. I have started to write out our weekly theme list so I can build our year around that. I am excited for a new year..K is not use to schooling being out yet so he is asking daily how much longer until kindergarten starts. His summer sports, activity's start this next week so I think that will end a little bit.







Just a little heads up to look for in the near future.

I am about halfway done with our school LOGO. I can't wait to post more about the LOGO but I'll keep it under wraps until it's all done and maybe wait until our shirts are made. At that time you'll understand our school name, see our colors for the first time. Just so excited to have our Logo nearly done.

Have a Blessed Day

Getting Ready

Yes we are Months out from our next school year but our books are in the process of being researched to make sure they fit into our schooling style.

We are researching Laptops as this year is the first year of having Technology as part of our curriculum.

New blog page

At this time we are setting up our school page.

What you will get from our school page

What is happening in any given month
Our Wish list
Current Book order/s
Links to Education sites that we use
Class links (This will get more use down the road)
Lunch Menu