Our state requires a bit of information prior to the start date of the school year including an outline of the curriculum as well as a list of curriculum & materials used for the year. I worked tonight typing everything out. It's obviously not an exhaustive outline & list, but since this is my first time submitting the paperwork I'm a bit nervous as to whether or not I did it correctly.
I will say I was excited as I flipped through a few of the books D will be using - especially the science & history books! I had looked through them briefly when they were delivered a few months ago, but didn't take the time to read certain sections. I'm excited to re-learn & review with him! I'm not sure who will get more out of homeschool...D or me?! :o)
Last night I began reading through D's first few weeks of curriculum - I love the daily layout! We will just open & go! He will be doing all kinds of fun things. It's all I can do to wait a few more weeks to begin! Good thing our vacation is this next week, otherwise, we'd probably be starting 2 weeks early with school!
Strawberry was whining the other day (she's a drama queen at 2!) about how she doesn't want to do preschool but wants to do "kindergwaten" this year just like Racer. He assured her that she'll get to kindergarten in a few years, but that he will help her with her preschool this year. I'm hoping that attitude in him remains as we go through the year. :o)
Our school area is getting finished - I bought a pencil sharpener, pencils, new crayons, markers, colored pencils, glue and folders the other night (love W's 15 cent school supplies price!). I couldn't help getting new school supplies - that's definitely the teacher in me! My reasoning...the kids don't want to have to use their "play" creative supplies for school. Also, we can never find a regular "RED" crayon in our huge crayon tub - there's magenta, brick red or 1001 orange-reds but never just plain old RED. :o)
Now we have a plastic caddy (recycled from my scrapbook supplies) to hold all of our pencils, coloring things, glue & scissors that will be strictly for our school work.
I finally remembered to buy a small US flag at a nearby craft store - we can't say the pledge of allegiance to the blank wall! I also bought a package of plastic (looks real) coins for counting money each morning. I had found (looks real) paper money at the Dollar Tree a few weeks ago. I wanted to make our "calendar" time similar to what I did in my classroom when I taught years ago (goodness - has it really been 7 years?!) I had the kids count money every day - whether it was coins to match the date (5 cents for the 5th) or an amount I wrote on the board. It was amazing to watch their $ skills develop over the year. For D&K, I'll start with just identifying the coins and matching the value then moving to counting cents and dollars.
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