Tuesday, August 2, 2011

1ST DAY OF 1ST GRADE & PRESCHOOL -- HOMESCHOOL

Today was our 1st offical day of 1st grade and preschool!


Yesterday I got the last of my organizing done for the month of August, making copies, etc. So my month is all sell. Check our my organizing method for each month HERE.

This is what I worked on yesterday!

1st Grade workbox for the week

What are we doing this week:
Galloping the Globe - Asia
Apologia (swim creatures) lesson 1
Handwriting: Abeka + Apologia copywork
Literature: reading a chapter a day of Charolette's Web
Bible: devotionals Gotta Have God (I am waiting for the rest of my Bible curriculum to come in the mail)
Reading: Bob Books, Hooked on Phonics level 3
Spelling: Superteacher worksheets list 1
Math: Math U See Lessons 1 Alpha
Phonics: Complete Book of Phonics

Plus still having some summer fun!





Each day gets 2 drawers


Preschool Workboxes (my toddler's workbox too but that will be a seperate post)


Preschool Pack is from Homeschool Creations (I printed and put in clear sleeves to use with dry erase marker)


 The fish printables I got HERE. I copied them into Word and enlarged them.

I made my preschooler & toddler a ocean sensory box (I will have a seperate post for this too)
We will be using this for awhile!


It started off as a crazy day, my children seemed to be uncorporative but after much prayer we got on track! I may have to split my schooling up into 2 sections 1/2 morning the other half while the little ones are napping so the distractions will be gone. All I know is that each day before we begin I will start with prayer! I couldn't do it without the help of my Maker!



14 comments:

  1. I love the signs with the first day picture! What a great tradition!

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  2. have a great year! :) Can't wait to follow along on the journey with you this year.

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  3. Love that sensory box! It's totally great!

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  4. Wow. You're making the rest of us look bad! Lol. I love how your have everything so organized. Do you do all subjects daily? We will do Science once a week and Spelling twice or three times. Which Phonics workbook do you use?

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  5. Thanks for linking up with Workbox Wednesday! Looks like you will be having a fun week!

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  6. Looks super organized! I'm hoping to get that done soon........

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  7. great stuff! :D Here from WW! Hope you'll visit as well!! We had last week off, and didn't use workboxes...so next week I'll post what we did this week in them :D So I hooked up an older post, but feel free to check out my workbox archives :D

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  8. I never thought of doing pictures on the first day. I need to remember that! Love the ocean box. Looking forward to that post!

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  9. Although I don't use work boxes, your boxes look awesome! Cute Back-to-School photos! Have a WONDERFUL year!

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  10. I LOVE the photos of your kids and that ocean sensory box--sooo cool!! I want to play with it!!

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  11. Love the idea of writing the date and school year on the dry erase board for the pictures.

    The preschool sensory box turned out great!

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  12. I flaked on the first day pictures. Well I took some of her working but not an official one. She was having a bad hair day. LOL

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  13. Glad the day turned out well. I've found over the years that school days go so much better when we start out with a family prayer and bit of scripture study. The pictures of the boys are priceless.

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  14. Love the board ideas with the age, date and grade! Great idea!

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