Clouds – Poetry

Our new poem will be Clouds by Christina Rossetti. It is a short little poem, very easy to memorize and act out. The kids enjoy moving with the poem as we recite it. When the wind is blowing, they move and wiggle around; when the wind stops, they freeze and stand still. Here’s a short [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 3

The new set of Action Words in Spanish is available now! In each set we will learn 5 action words/verbs. Building a great vocabulary base, including verbs, will insure that our students will have a solid foundation as they move to more in depth Spanish learning (conjugating verbs, forming complete sentences, etc.) With the younger [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]

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

We love poems by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is a very fun poem for kids. So we decided to work on memorizing this piece of poetry.  I found an animated video of the poem and my kids love watching it. Here are some of the resources I created to go with the poem. 1. Written [Read On]

Length Measurement Conversions

Hello my dear readers! We are working hard on memorizing length measurement conversions. We had fun measuring things around the house and using different measurement units. I created a few resources for my kids to practice and review the conversions. These are the particular conversions we are learning in our local co-op, so that is [Read On]

Star-Spangled Banner

For the next couple of weeks, we will be working on memorizing The Star-Spangled Banner. My plan was to create a few resources like I usually do, but when I looked around, I found plenty of other websites offering free resources to use. So thankful for all the bloggers out there willing to share their [Read On]

Los Vegetales – Vegetables

Our next topic in Spanish class is the vegetables. We are learning basic vocabulary for vegetables in Spanish. Here is the video going over the vocabulary and pronunciation: I created a few sheets to go with this topic. In the link below you will find a document containing the following sheets: 1. Vocabulary sheet 2. [Read On]