Action Words – Verbos Set 4

With a new school year in progress, we have introduced a new set of action words (verbs) in our Spanish class. Just like in the previous sets, we will be learning five new verbs and the phrases: “Yo puedo ..” (I can…) and “Yo no puedo…” (I can not…) The video will serve a tool [Read On]

La Escuela – The School

A new school year has just started! Our Spanish classes will begin soon. Since we are beginning a new school year and the kids are talking everything related about school, I thought it would be fitting to learn some vocabulary in that topic. We will learn different places in the school and a few items [Read On]

Transporte – Transportation

We will be learning the vocabulary words for Transportation in our Spanish class. I have created the video to help the students and parents with the pronunciation. It would really benefit the student to watch the video at least three times a week. This would help the child memorize the vocabulary easily. Below you will [Read On]

Verbos – Action Words Set 1

Happy New Year! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year with your loved ones! We are back into routine and plugging along with school. In our Spanish class, we will be learning five different action words (verbs) during the next few weeks. This is the first set of six sets I’ll be [Read On]

Poetry – A Model of Christian Charity

Our History studies will bring us to the beginnings of our country. In Poetry, we have chosen to memorize a few excerpts of the sermon delivered by Governor John Winthrop.  At the time, he was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This sermon was delivered aboard the Arbella. I love the absolute truths delivered [Read On]

Zoo Animals – Animales del Zoológico

The new topic in our Spanish class is Zoo Animals! Kids naturally love animals and are interested in learning about them. We will learn the name of eight different animals. Some of these words are very easy to learn since they sound so similar to English. I made a short video to help you and [Read On]

A Mighty Fortress is Our God – Poetry

During the next three weeks, my Kindergarten class will be memorizing the first two stanzas of the hymn “A Mighty Fortress” by Martin Luther. We will be studying about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation in our History, so we thought it would line up perfectly to memorize this old hymn. I found a really [Read On]

Beowulf

This year we will be studying Medieval and Renaissance Era in our History curriculum. Some of our Poetry will be related to that era.  Our co-op will be memorizing a couple of excerpts from “Beowulf”. Last week, we spent some time reading about Beowulf, watching some videos and having some discussion about what this poem [Read On]

Doubles Math Facts

This week we will be introducing the Doubles Facts in our Kindergarten room at our local homeschool group. As I was preparing for the lesson, I looked all around the web for more ideas. I ran into this wonderful idea by Jenae over at I Can Teach My Child. She cut out circles to represent [Read On]

Romulus and Remus by Rudyard Kipling

Since we are studying ancient history this year, our Poetry is related to the topics we are learning about. The founding of Rome is one of the topics we will be covering in the next few weeks, so we will be memorizing the poem “Romulus and Remus” by Rudyard Kipling. I put together this video [Read On]