Summer

Well that's it.

Our Fabulous Ms Ruth has left us for the summer. It's just Doodle and I for the next three months as we tackle this whole home schooling thing ourselves. I'm excited. And nervous. Really nervous. I'm not even sure what we're supposed to be doing at this point, Ms Ruth always handled that. Doodle just kept coming home knowing new things.

But I put together a few ideas for the summer.

First I decided to look at what subjects I wanted to focus on. Since Doodle has zero interest in writing, penmanship was most definitely not on the list. I ended up deciding on a few subjects.
Math
Language Arts
Music
Art
Science
Sensorial Activities.

Each day of the week has three subjects attached to it for us to use in our workboxes. It might be some worksheets or larger actives or games, but it will help me to structure our weeks to make sure we're not forgetting something.

I then decided to put together a goal for the summer (finish preschool) and break it down into a month at a time.

June
Math : Counting & Ordering 1 - 20; understanding quantitative concepts.
Language Arts : Bedtime Books & Chapter Books ; 10 sight words
Sensorial : Cutting & Pasting
Science : Classification, Zoo Animals, Seasons & Weather
Geography : Kenya & England, Maybe Australia if we have the motivation.

Doodle is into maps right now so I've decided to run with it by doing some Geography work. Since Ms Ruth is in Kenya for the summer this is a perfect time for us to focus on Kenya and Africa. We will be researching zoo animals found in Kenya as a tie-in to our science lessons and I'm so lucky that Homeschool Creations happens to have a full lesson plan on Kenya for us. :) We will adapt some of the ideas for Doodle's age, and we're also going to add in some Swahili lessons for fun.

I am excited. I think Doodle will LOVE it and he is going to have so much fun making postcards to send to Ms Ruth and her kids.