Day 1!

Ok, so today was the first day that we started homeschooling. After reading around a bit we decided that we needed to make sure that everything was casual and that we concentrated more on doing fun things rather than actual teaching - since the student is only 2 years old! So here was the plan for today:

Trace straight lines with a crayon.

Do two sessions of singing the alphabet song.

Read a book during the day.

Do two sessions of counting to 15.

Read a bedtime story.

So, the first bit of schooling was this morning. Ellie made breakfast into a counting game, getting Leyla to count each mouthful up to 15. Considering this was the first time she had really heard any numbers above ten, she did really well and copied them all.

Leyla decided that she wanted to do some drawing, so I printed off the tiger picture that I had saved for Wednesday and let her colour that in with her crayons. Pic:

We then decided to take the kids to an activity at a children’s centre. We rang around and the best thing on was “Chatterbox”. Basically, all the kids got to do a lot of different activities. We sang nursery rhymes, played instruments, read a book (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) and then drew pictures based on it. Both of the babies loved it and Leyla was the loudest one there! Pic:

After we were finished at the children’s centre we went into town for something to eat. While we were waiting for our food, Ellie sang the alphabet song to Leyla and got an alphabet video up on YouTube for her to watch. She didn’t really seem interested but she had just woken up. We had another go at saying 1-15, but she wasn’t really interested until we went past number 10 when she turned to Ellie as though she had spoken a completely different language!

After dinner we went sick in Wilko’s and bought tonnes of art and craft stuff. Pic:

 I think Ellie will love the make-your-own bag more than Leyla!

We came home and while Ellie was making tea, me and Leyla put her new big girl bed together! Then we came downstairs and she practised drawing straight lines by tracing over lines I drew in pencil. She did really well and kept on telling me that they weren’t lines they were number 1s! Pic:

 Bed time! We put Leyla into her new big girl bed with her new Peppa Pig covers. Ellie read her a bedtime story (Room on the Broom) which she loved and then she went straight to sleep.

Very successful day!

P.S. She has been going on the potty every time she needs a wee!

Leyla: 31mths, Naomie: 12mths.

September Week 1

Ok, so here is the plan for our first week.

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September

Week 1 (5^th-12^th)

Monday

·        Trace straight lines with a crayon.

·        Do two sessions of singing the alphabet song.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        Do two sessions of counting to 15.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Tuesday

·        Do two sessions of counting 5 objects.

·        Do two sessions of comparatives and superlatives.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        See how many items of clothing Leyla knows.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Wednesday

·        Name and colour in two jungle animals.

·        See how many fruit and vegetables Leyla knows.

·        Shapes and colours.

·        Do two sessions of singing the alphabet song.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        Do two sessions of counting to 15.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Thursday

·        Trace straight lines with a crayon.

·        Do two sessions of counting 5 objects.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        Do two sessions of counting to 15.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Friday

·        Shapes and colours.

·        Do two sessions of singing the alphabet song.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        Do two sessions of comparatives and superlatives.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Saturday

·        Trace straight lines with a crayon.

·        Do two sessions of counting 5 objects.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        Do two sessions of counting to 15.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Sunday

·        Do two sessions of counting 5 objects.

·        Do two sessions of comparatives and superlatives.

·        Read a book during the day.

·        Make a jungle.

·        Do two sessions of singing the alphabet song.

·        Read a bedtime story.

Need to focus on potty training and getting self dressed/undressed all week.

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Next post will probably be on Tuesday, letting you all know about day 1!

Monthly Plans - September

Ok, so here is the monthly plan that we have made for the topics that we will cover in September:

September

Phonics and Reading

Alphabet Song – learn the whole song, focus on improving pronunciation of all letters, use an alphabet poster to help connect to written letters.

Reading – left to right, up to down, turning pages right way.

Writing

Tracing straight lines.

Arithmetic

Counting to 15.

Counting objects to 5.

Comparatives - Big and Small.

Superlatives - Bigger and Smaller, Biggest and smallest.

Sorting objects – colour.

Science

Jungle Animals

Social Studies

Clothing.

Fruit and vegetables.

Readiness

Colours

Shapes

Colours from Memory

Next post will have more detail of what we are planning for our first week. Hoping to start teaching Leyla (2 and a half) on Monday!

www.handsonhomeschooling.com <<<< great website that we got the initial idea for the curricula from.