The thing that gets to me is the “Make the xxxxxx say something.” Truth be told, I’ve reached my max with it. She lives for getting the other stuff done so she can draw, color, paint, cut, glue, etc. I set her free with her craft supplies and whatever else she is interested in doing. (Here is a list of classic kindergarten picture books I put together.) Craft Time: 1-3 hours I let Caroline choose a book or two from a basket of books I would like us to read together. Or there is a picture on the page which provokes “Make the horse say something” or “Make the pig talk to me.” Storytime: 10-20 minutes This usually goes pretty normally except when she wants to first make a dotted line outline of the letter or number so she can trace it. Every other problem provides an opportunity for “Make the cat say something” or decorative embellishment of whichever number she last wrote. We do a math activity and/or page or two. (Update: I discovered she’s a right brain, visual-spatial learner which explains a lot.)īiscuit Phonics Fun (My First I Can Read) Biscuit: More Phonics Fun (My First I Can Read) Reading Fun with Curious George Boxed Set (Green Light Readers Level 1) She constantly surprises me with how many words she has already learned on her own via, Leapfrog videos, reading to her, looking at books, etc. Every other page is a request for “Make the dog say something” or “Make the bear talk to me” or “Make the turtle tell me something” or “The zebra told me about the time when he…” or “Yesterday Big Bear went to see this squirrel and they…” Somewhere in the midst of all of it, reading instruction happens. We read a couple of small readers and/or do other reading/phonics related activities. It must be filled in, striped, or otherwise colored with three to ten different colored markers. It is not enough to cross off the number on the chart with a single color. Calendar Time: 10-15 minutesįive minutes of actual learning and five to ten minutes of adding color and embellishment to everything we do. Remember the post How a homeschooled dreamer does preschool math? A year later, here is a rough breakdown of how my kindergarten homeschool schedule with Caroline might go on any given day.
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