We are learning a lot about our country’s history. It is very interesting to read and learn about the origins of our country. This week we will be memorizing the Preamble to the Constitution. If you like folder games, you are in luck! 🙂 I created a folder game to help my kids memorize it. I [Read On]
Spanish – The Farm
September 3, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Our Spanish classes have started. Our first topic is The Farm (La Granja), specifically farm animals. This is a fun topic! Kids naturally love animals, so now we get to learn the words for some of the farm animals in Spanish! I made a short video to review the pronunciation. You can also use this [Read On]
Poetry – The Christening by A. A. Milne
April 23, 2014 by Leave a Comment
This is the last poem we will be learning this school year! I can’t believe we are almost to the end of the school year! Wow! This year truly flew by! 🙂 This last poem is just a short, fun little poem about a mouse. Here is the video to help your child memorize it: [Read On]
Las Estaciones – The Four Seasons
April 12, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We are soon approaching the end of the school year! Wow! It has gone super fast! Our Spanish class is doing really well, and I love watching the kids progressing and starting to use complete sentences. Yay! I am so proud of them! The next two weeks we will studying the Four Seasons. Here’s the [Read On]
Poetry – Where Go the Boats?
April 3, 2014 by 1 Comment
This is another sweet and wonderful poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. Did you ever play at a river or creek growing up? I did! And we had so much fun exploring in the water, making up games, finding ways to catch fish, building with rocks, among many more creative activities we came up with. Such [Read On]
Digraphs – The H Brothers
March 30, 2014 by 8 Comments
My Kindergarten class (in our co-op) has been working hard on learning the letter sounds and now we have moved on to learning some digraphs. I found a cute idea on Pinterest about the H Brothers, so I ran with it, modified it, and created my own materials. I had a lot of fun putting [Read On]
Poetry – The Land of Story-Books
March 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Our new poem is “The Land of Story-Books” by Robert Louis Stevenson. This is another great poem that invites your imagination to run wild and picture the scenes the author describes in each stanza. I made a short video featuring this poem. My kids watch it everyday during breakfast to help them memorize it. Here [Read On]
Spanish – Pets (Mascotas)
March 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
We are getting ready to start our last 8 weeks of Spanish class. I can’t believe how fast this school year is going by! For the next two weeks we will be learning about Pets. Our basic vocabulary can be found in the following video: I created a few resources to go with this topic. [Read On]
Spanish – Describing Myself
February 14, 2014 by 1 Comment
Hello everybody! We have been enjoying the snow we got in NC! We don’t usually get this much snow, so we are all loving it! Lots of fun…. hard to get into school 🙂 This week’s topic for Spanish is working on describing ourselves. The goal is to get the kids describing themselves by talking [Read On]
Spanish – School Items
January 31, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The topic we will be studying for the next two weeks is School Items. We will be learning basic vocabulary words for school items. We have been describing the items in Spanish using colors and size. Here’s the video to help you with the pronunciation: Below you can download the file which includes the vocabulary [Read On]