http://abc123homeschool.com Making Homeschool Rule! Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:10:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I hope that everyone had a happy and safe New Year! So many resolutions, right? Well not so much for me. My number two resolution is to make sure that we find our way with a schedule so we can continue to be on the right track. ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2010/01/happy-new-year/ Granted we haven't done things according to any curriculum but we have enjoyed doing holiday projects along with keeping up with our worksheets. I have slacked on keeping our bulletin board routine to see how well we would do without it. But I have missed that routine and ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/12/christmas-time-is-over-next/ We were sitting down, getting our shoes on to go outside to play and all of a sudden, "show me how to tie my shoes".  Of course I was happy to sit and show her.  So we sat for half an hour practicing.  She did great.  She just had to ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/12/learning-to-tie-shoes/ We have slowly made our way to letter J and number 10.  :-)  Taking our time has been a great luxury.  One of the joys of home schooling.  But in the meantime I am teaching her to spell her name as well as making sure she has her personal information ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/12/letter-j-and-number-10/ I hope that everyone had a safe and happy holiday today!!! http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/happy-thanksgiving/ Emmi turned 4 this passed week and with her bunches of presents I got her something that I thought she would enjoy with us for school  It's not just any old dry erase, although they are the greatest "blackboard" in my opinion.  :-)  You can buy all kinds of color ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/dry-erase-fun/ Okay we all know what happens when Thanksgiving comes around and there are children in the house...turkey hand prints!  Yup, you got it and we are going to be doing it this week for sure!  Just simply grab some paper that will fit your child's hand prints on it and ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/another-thanksgiving-who-can-resist/ A week for a new letter and number.  We are learning I and 9 now.  We've done some coloring pages and we have been practicing  our numbers when we are at the grocery store.  :) I'll say, "where are we going?" and she will have to tell me what number ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/letter-i-and-number-9/ We started these great worksheets today that you cut out the patterns make something fun.  First we did a house where you cut out the shapes...great way to remember shapes.  It really put a fun spin on it.  Once we did that, we glued all the shapes where they were ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/cut-and-paste-fun/ Wrapping up October was fun with Halloween.  We drifted away from our daily school routine a bit and brought it back this passed week.  So I decided to skip a lot of the extras and double up on our letters and numbers.  No new shapes or states though.  I didn't ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/letters-g-h-numbers-7-8/ Finally...I am settled in my new virtual home.  :-)  Sorry for the setback...if you noticed the old post then you have at least found me at my new PERMANENT home here.  I know it set me back on some posts but I'll catch you up.  Not much too exciting with ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/11/new-space-in-time/ This week has been a week of being laid back more than usual.  As you can see on the bulletin board, my printer is on the fritz and I’m waiting on it’s replacement…thank goodness for warranties..lol.  Week 7, a week of learning the letter F and number 6.  I added ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/introduction-to-letter-f-number-6-more/ Since review week was our week for Halloween Theme, I came up with a fun project (granted I did most of the work but Emmi LOVED the end result). :-) Going back to the foam fun we have, I decided to do a foam witch project.  We get in packages ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/halloween-theme-fun/ We had a pretty good week with review week 6.  We went over our states and had a good time with our map.  Emmi even made a game that she was Mommy and I was Emmi.  lol She did very good learning the new state Texas and of course we ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/fun-with-review-week-6/ This week I decided that since it's review week, we can do a Halloween theme.  So we will probably try a craft with Halloween this week and she is helping to make a pumpkin pie.  Reminder, repeat for Thanksgiving. ;-) Needless to say we are laying back and enjoying review ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/review-weeks-1-to-5/ First off, thank goodness I was told this early...organize!  Keep your child's work well organized.  Don't forget that at the end of each "school" year you will have to do some sort of evaluation in order for your child to "move up" a "grade".  FYI I use the quotes since ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/organize-hmmm-i-can-do-this/ We did a lot of reviewing along with the new stuff we learned.  Especially since this coming week is review week for us anyways.  We did  a lot of coloring pages and playing on the computer. I also made up some sheets and went over our numbers, letters and shapes ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/testing-memory/ Okay well, this question is asked in our house a lot!  lol  Between owning two businesses and then when we go grocery shopping or whatever, my daughter probably can't help but to want to play store.  Well, I thought of a fun way to play store AND do school fun! ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/wanna-play-store/ We've made our way to week 5!  Working our way to letter E and number 5 already.  Our bulletin board has all new stuff this week.  We changed our shapes page to a big star.  The first day of school this week we did some tracing with stars which was ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/introduction-to-letter-e-number-5-more/ Since dogs are our a part of our theme this week, I decided while I was at Walmart to pick up some supplies.  I got some "Fuzzy Stix" which are the wires with the fuzz on them and they are all different colors. Plus I got some wiggle eyes and ... http://abc123homeschool.com/2009/10/doggie-crafts/