Welcome to our school room

Welcome to

Soleil Academy

 

 Teachers Desk.  Don't mind the pile of papers under the desk that are waiting to be filed away

Favorite photo of son and Hubs with my lotion, hand santi, lip balm  this years field trip planner
Laptop
Camera, pencil container, new planner, curriculum magazines, adoption fund pouch. Sharpies
Turn in box

Under desk
School Ipad, File (Student worksheets) Trash and our family and finance binders

                                                                       ~Our HUB~
                                Top to Bottom left to right
Teacher binders    Teacher books        Teacher helper books      Past year Binders    Current Binder
Student workbooks   EMPTY        His./Soc.S teacher helper books  Math/theme books  Classic books
Mon-Fri work boxes
Animals                   PlayMobil                LEGOS                   Lincoln Logs/Lego books      Puzzles
Play dough    Preschool learning games     LEGOS             Duplo Legos                         Games

                                                                   Music area.

                                                         Black shelf holds our manipulative
                                                            Art Area (For Now)
                                                     White book rack holds books that we are reading this week

 Our morning area.  This is where we do a few minutes of reviewing things and also where I do story  time.
Every morning we go over the date by writing it out.  I also will write a couple short sentences that son has to read and figure out.  Its normally a follow directions picture that he will do in his morning journal.  The Sentences are something that I have him do on his own.  Than have him show me what he got at the end.  Takes 10-15 min's for him to complete.
Clip board is on the floor but that will be hanging on the wall soon.  I use clipboards when son is in this area away from his desk.

Our bulletin board is just FUN!  For the spring I had son make the whole thing without knowing.  Just short lessons every day to the grand finale of the bulletin board.  He was super excited to see how I used his art work.  The Face was another lesson not part of building the bulletin board

Play table is just that a play table ;o)  There is another drawer but it's still in the garage

                                                          Our Library area. 
Had lots of books until I put them on the shelf and realized I didn't have as many as I thought.

                                                    from Left to right
Readers-2nd grade reading level      3rd-4th grade reading level    Holiday books <-- moving="" out="" p="" soon="">Fun hard back stories                         Random books                      Classics
SCIENCE (Space/Dinos)            Science (Animals, Bugs, plants)   Character building


Hope you enjoyed touring our school room.  We sure enjoy having our learning space

FT- WonderWorks

Wonderworks Orlando

4/26/13

 

K was scared to go inside as he was for sure everything inside was destroyed as the building is upside down.  Once we went in he was fine until the DARK spinning tube you walk through.  He ran back to the end.  I ended up having to have him close his eyes and push him through that.  Other than those 2 things he had a blast once he was past all of that.

 

He even tried the ropes which is about 12 feet above the ground.  He had the sweetest assistant who worked with him so that he could try it out.  This was my proudest moment seeing him overcome something he was nervous about.  Esp, when I saw older kids turn around without even trying.  So proud he didn't let his fear take a hold of him.

 

 

The light board was really neat!  My  little ham held his breath while posing in the space suit ;o) he's a funny guy.  Both mama and son had a blast on the large piano.  Bubbles where fun but we only got our heads in a bubble before the bubble would pop.

Both K and I learned a little bit about the icy waters from the titanic crash site.  K left his hand in for 36 sec's and than he was off to the next station.  I on the other hand was still going after 5 min's but had to move on with K.  LOL!  It was cold but I didn't think about it being cold which helped.  We hit the water flowing up, still and down, earthquake station, hurricane force wind (K didn't).  We had a blast at Wonderworks

We spent 4 hours there before heading out for lunch and some shopping in Orlando.  We had a great time but next time I am asking if we can go in another way, that spinning tube was a little much for my guy.  With the fear of the unknown this isn't a good start to the wonderful adventure Wonderworks brings.

Our new school room in the making

Welcome to a peek of our new school room. 

 

 

 

Soft preview of our classroom ;O)

 

Teacher area.  Love this desk!  Went shopping for dry earse boards and came home with this desk.  As you can see desk is open all the way around.  This way I can call student (right now I have 1 but we are starting the process of adopting) over for paired reading or testing right at my desk.  Stayed tunes for another post just about the teachers desk.

here is our morning area!  Again another blog about this area once the area is completed

Our library went up today.  I swore I had more books until I put them on the shelf.  We have plenty of room to grow.  Laminator is in the pillow case to stay dust free (moved from a house that was insanly dusty) My plan is for it to be placed on top of this shelf.  Yes, for now the shelf is over lapping the door a little but that will be changing.  Stay tuned. 

 

Kaydens Desk area!  We will be ordering a new chair to match come the fall when PBK runs deals on desk and desk chairs. I'm way too cheap to pay full price when he has a perfectly good chair.  But, at the same time I have to have it matching or it will bother me.  (LOL!  Yes, this mama teacher needs things to go together).  Another post will be up soon on what the student desk entails.

The best storage unit ever.

 

Stayed tuned for details of each of the areas and others as our school room takes form.

 

Have a wonderful week

 

Math~ Place value cups

I was trying to think of a fun way to make a number dial to work on place values.  I simply wrote the numbers 0-9 on each cup and than added a zero/s behind depending on which cup/place value.

 

I wanted something that I could call out a number and he could easier move like a dial that didn't take too much time to play.  This is perfect on the go as well.  I can call out the number and he can just show me in the mirror.

 

Here he is working on the hundreds (127)

I made cups all the way up to the thousands.

 

I like that I can review number sense and place value all at the same time and son has fun reviewing.   Takes 2 minutes to make and takes 2 Min's to practice a few numbers.

 

also a great way for the Little's (under 6) to learn number sense with the ones and tens cups

 

Daily 5 the homeschool way

Here is K reading his daily 5 book.  Yes, I stole the idea of the daily 5 from some really amazing public school teachers.  I use this time to teach K that he can read to himself quietly.  When he's reading I am getting things for school ready for the day or reading myself.  We just started this 2 weeks ago so we are still in the learning stage.  One thing that son loves is that he can read ANYWHERE at our house.

 

 

When the reading to self is mastered (when we reach 20 Min's) I will start to introduce other area's of the daily 5.

 

Read to self

Listen to reading (Books on tape)

Word Work

Work on writing

Read to someone

 

Its a great way for student to work on some independent skills and gives me some prep time in the morning

 

Math Centers

On Fridays we don't pull out the workbooks.  Instead I pull out centers, which are fun learning games!  Here are a few of the math centers we have for Friday funday.

 

This game is from Hobby lobby.  which is a great game to use your 40% off coupon on

Great for the 2nd grade and up students

This game is a hoot!  Trying to make seven with your cards and whats been played.

This is a mind bender game.  You place the pegs as the book says and than you have to figure out how to use all the pieces

 

skip counting mazes.  I heard a lot of Hey that's not right every time he had to switch directions.  we teach our kids to count going from left to right.  Make them think when they suddenly have count in the opposite direction or up and down as the number builds.

 

Skip Counting work pages

This was FUN.  A great way to work on number sense.  Knowing where to look when finding a number.  If you need 47 you should be looking up in the teens :o)  K loved figuring out the picture

Fundred charts from teacher tipster

Just a quick quiz.  I plan to just put a book in our math center tub and let K pick which page he works on.  As long as he's working on something Math than he's learning

a great book for working on multiplication by himself

 

Math centers can be FUN!

Our official first day of 2nd grade

 

 

 

Being homeschooled year around things somewhat blend together but 9/4 was our official day.  We took a week off before so this made the day stand out just a little bit.  Perfect time to change our school routine up a little bit and get back onto track with a full time schedule.

 

Happy 1st day back to school after a week off :o)

Back to school Photo's

We had K's photo's taken by a fellow homeschooling mom

Meredith Leigh Photography

 

 

 

 

Germs Lesson

A lesson on the Spread of germs

I started off with some hand sanitizer and glitter.  The glitter is representing the germs on our hands when we cough into them.

We than passed the germs as simple as shaking hands

This are the passed germs from my hand to K's hand from one simple hand shake..EWWW

Then I had K go around the house doing things he normally would do in a day and each thing he touched he left germs that were on his hands

We talked about proper hand washing and when it's the most important

Lots of good questions about germs and how they can harm our body and how they can help our body

This is K's germ that he made at the end of out germ lesson for the day