Our Homeschool, Week 32: "Stars & Space"

This week, our theme was Stars & Space.Unfortunately, I don't have much to show you guys. Between preparing to go to Disney World and just generally dealing with a lot of bureaucratic stuff with Bu's insurance and prescriptions, homeschooling sort of fell by the wayside.

We did all our usual puzzles, color, shape and letter identifying, and educational apps. We just didn't do much in the way of space-specific activities.  I'll save this theme to pick up on at a later date, so no harm, no foul. Thus is the magic of homeschooling!

Have a great week, everyone! We'll be back soon to tell you about our Memorial Day activities!

UPCOMING THEMES:

Memorial Day

Farm

Father's Day

Summer

Monsters

Our Homeschool, Week 31: "Transportation"

This week, our theme was Transportation. We had fun learning about all sorts of things that go: boats, cars, trains and planes!

Above is a collection of books, puzzles and other materials we used this week. There's a magnetic board for a collage, a puzzle maze, erasers to use in a sensory bin, books and a coloring activity. Below, you can see how we used some of these items. 

I bought 3 little plastic cars at the dollar store and used a piece of a box (yay, recycling!) to create this craft activity. I just put blobs of paint on one end of the cardboard and place a car in each spot. Then I encouraged Bu to roll the cars back and forth to see the tracks left behind. Then we moved the cars around the box and continued to roll back and forth to make this fun painting!

Here is Bu playing with the magnetic board pictured above. I just let him place the magnets wherever he chose, but a more mature activity could be to sort which vehicles belong on the road, in the water and in the sky.

Lastly, we sorted vehicle counters by color, completed vehicle puzzles, and played a matching game. Bu then took it upon himself to grab pegs off his pegboard to sort by color on top of his vehicle flashcards. Yay for self directed learning!

UPCOMING THEMES:

Stars & Space

Memorial Day

Farm

Father's Day

Summer

Monsters

Our Homeschool, Week 30: "Mother's Day"

This week, we celebrated Mother's Day! Here's a look at our activities...

We worked on our color and shape puzzles (yay, interlocking puzzles!). We also started working on sorting by color on the iPad and did a new mommy-and-baby-horse puzzle. Also pictured above are 2 cards/crafts he made me with his therapists :)

We watched our Family Feelings Fun Signing Time DVD again. We also continued working on sequencing numbers and where they belong on a clock, and worked on painting flowerpots as presents for Bu's grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

UPCOMING THEMES:

Transportation

Space and Stars

Our Homeschool, Week 29: "Robots"

We just completed our Robots unit...there were way more activities that we wanted to do but we're adjusting supplements around here, and that makes for a cranky Bu. I tend to go a little easier on him with schooling when he's having a rough week because we still keep our regular 16 hours of therapy a week.

We introduced the concept of clocks this week. Bu needs help putting them in order when he has to go in a circle, but he has no problem putting the numbers in order in a straight line. We read a couple books about robots, watched a video about the scientific method, and played with our letter recognition and robot apps.

The painting with gears is something I hoped to do, but we didn't get around to it. We're going to do a painting activity this week to make up for it. We also did more letter recognition activities with magnets, worked on puzzles, lacing beads, and stacking robots. So much fun and coordination/fine motor practice!

 

UPCOMING THEMES

May 2 - Mother's Day