Mini Offices

The big boys are going to Holiday Club (like VBS in the States) this week, and I'm making final preparations for school which will begin next week. One new addition this year is a mini office for each of the boys. It's taken me a while to compile and organize all of the elements I wanted to include. I glued Caleb's together today and will have each page laminated later this week. The pages will be taped together with packing tape into an accordian-type file. The purpose is to have quick reference tools and to aid in learning basic information. 

Caleb and I had the morning to ourselves. He cut away while I glued. 

Cover Page

 

Caleb has only 2 pages: Manuscript Guide; Colors; Shapes; Left/Right; Alphabet Chart; Number Caterpillar

First 2 pages for Cooper and Noah: Days of the week; Months of the year; Clock; Seasons; Continents and Oceans; Colors; Hundreds Chart; Shapes; Skip Counting Chart

Pages 3-4: Left/Right; Manuscript Guide; Numbers/Words/Hands/Tally Marks; Paper Money; Fractions; Order Words; Coins 

Back Page: Books of the Bible

And that's it. Noah's office is yellow and Cooper's orange. All 3 boys are really excited about using these.

2010-2011 School Resources

I will soon be updating the blog with our new resources, so I've compiled the basics from last year's resources on this page.

Music:

Calvert's Discoveries in Music was a great introduction to music studies. View here.

We listened to this and other classics to learn about various instruments.

Language:

View it here.

Find it here.

Literature:

and all of the books included in the guide (Curious George, Caps for Sale, Corduroy, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Blueberries for Sal, The Little Engine that Could, Floss, A Chair for My Mother, Harry the Dirty Dog, Billy and Blaze, Bread and Jam for Francis, Dr. DeSoto, Frog and Toad are Friends, and Frog and Toad All Year Long).
See the guide here.

Find this book here.

Handwriting:

We're doing traditional manuscript. The Zaner-Bloser workbook can be found here.

Math:

We used Saxon math for Cooper.
Noah used workbooks from Harcourt-Brace that my mom had left-over from her Kindergarten class.

History:

For history, we primarily used this book which can be found here.
We supplemented with other books about the included historical figures.

Geography:

Find it here.

View this book here.

Bible:

See it here. 

Our copy is from First Presbyterian Church, Jackson. 

This great set of verses (ESV) can be purchased from the Desiring God website found here.

Art:

This book is wonderful! It can be found here.

French:

View here.