Wednesday, December 16, 2009
No news is good news?
I'm sorry I haven't been updating, but we have been travelling and internet service has been spotty. Our co-op finished on the 19th of November and won't start again until the 14th of January. Jasmine will be taking two classes of preschool next year since she did so well last semester. We have a bunch of plans for next year, I don't know how they are going to work out. I'll try to remember to write more about the plans after we get home.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Muffin Tin Monday
There's no theme for this week.
Jasmine had orange juice, bean sprouts, grapes on leaf picks, a triple berry muffin, baked salmon and strawberries.
Jasmine had orange juice, bean sprouts, grapes on leaf picks, a triple berry muffin, baked salmon and strawberries.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Muffin Tin Monday
This week's theme is Outer Space.
This week from top to bottom, left to right:
1. We have orange juice, Minute Maid has a kids juice with vitamins A, B1, C, D, E, and calcium. The great thing about this is it is pulp free, so sippy cups and straw cups with valves (like the one in this picture) won't get clogged by the pulp. We were getting the orange juice with the added calcium, because Jasmine doesn't drink milk and will only eat a few dark green veggies, and the straws were always getting clogged even though that juice is supposed to be low pulp.
2. Mini-cucumber stars made with the recipe by M3 of Do They Have Salsa in China?. Jasmine loves cucumbers, so I figured we'd give this a try. I put them in a yellow muffin liner.
3. Next is multi-colored toothpicks with grapes. I glued a star onto the orange pick.
4. Corn in another yellow muffin liner. Jasmine knew the picture on top was supposed to be the sun right away. I cannot draw a straight line, so if my pictures ever look strangely slanted, its probably because I put things together crooked and took the picture crooked.
5. Originally I was going to try and draw the earth from space... luckily I gave up on that idea fast. It is supposed to be a picture of a planet with rings in space. Like I said, I cannot draw. Underneath the icing is Kozy Shack's Simplywell pudding in Green Tea Chai. I got these for myself, but Jasmine wanted one a few days ago and actually ate it. Its odd she will eat gelatin, but puddings or custard until she ate this. She still will not eat regular pudding, like vanilla.
6. And last we have apple asteroids covered in cinnamon.
This week from top to bottom, left to right:
1. We have orange juice, Minute Maid has a kids juice with vitamins A, B1, C, D, E, and calcium. The great thing about this is it is pulp free, so sippy cups and straw cups with valves (like the one in this picture) won't get clogged by the pulp. We were getting the orange juice with the added calcium, because Jasmine doesn't drink milk and will only eat a few dark green veggies, and the straws were always getting clogged even though that juice is supposed to be low pulp.
2. Mini-cucumber stars made with the recipe by M3 of Do They Have Salsa in China?. Jasmine loves cucumbers, so I figured we'd give this a try. I put them in a yellow muffin liner.
3. Next is multi-colored toothpicks with grapes. I glued a star onto the orange pick.
4. Corn in another yellow muffin liner. Jasmine knew the picture on top was supposed to be the sun right away. I cannot draw a straight line, so if my pictures ever look strangely slanted, its probably because I put things together crooked and took the picture crooked.
5. Originally I was going to try and draw the earth from space... luckily I gave up on that idea fast. It is supposed to be a picture of a planet with rings in space. Like I said, I cannot draw. Underneath the icing is Kozy Shack's Simplywell pudding in Green Tea Chai. I got these for myself, but Jasmine wanted one a few days ago and actually ate it. Its odd she will eat gelatin, but puddings or custard until she ate this. She still will not eat regular pudding, like vanilla.
6. And last we have apple asteroids covered in cinnamon.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Week Four
This weeks theme is Eyes and the vocabulary word is iris. I got the picture from an article on Discover Magazine about the genetics of eye color. The vocabulary word spot on our poster is blank because I put it with the image of the eye.
We started the week off slow, there was a lot of wind last weekend, so for Monday and Tuesday Jasmine and I were sneezing a lot.
Monday: We went over the letter "D" and did a capital "D" worksheet from School Express found here. I also printed the lowercase "d," but we did not go over it.
Tuesday: Jasmine colored the diamond from last week with blue glitter. I defrosted some frozen blueberries, I couldn't find any fresh ones. I hung up our blue window cling.
And our blue ice cream scoop.
Wednesday: was the letter "D" craft. Jasmine made an Duck C using the letter "D" and some feathers from No Time For Flash Cards.
We also colored a "D" worksheet that had an upper and lower case "d" with pictures of things that started with "D" from Mommy Nature.com. Here is the worksheet.
Thursday: was number four. We added another fish to the fish bowl. We got ready for Halloween by making a ghost found on The Artful Crafter here. Instead of a CD we used a paper plate and I let Jasmine paint one side white.
Friday: the nursery rhyme for Friday was Lavender's Blue. I got the full rhyme from Wikipedia. I didn't save where I got the image of the lavender from, but a easy search on Google Images will bring something usable up.
Friday was also Halloween Day for us. Nevada Day is also October 31st, but is celebrated on the last Saturday of October, which happened to be Halloween this year. We went trick-or-treating, Jasmine was a pirate. Saturday we went and watched the Nevada Day parade downtown.
Here is a view of our Learning Poster.
For November we have lots of leaves on our calendar.
What we are currently reading:
Jasmine's selection: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
I got this for Jasmine after we did the "C" caterpillar from last week and she seems to really enjoy the book.
My selection: The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer
I borrowed this from the library and have only just started reading it, so I don't have an opinion on it yet.
We started the week off slow, there was a lot of wind last weekend, so for Monday and Tuesday Jasmine and I were sneezing a lot.
Monday: We went over the letter "D" and did a capital "D" worksheet from School Express found here. I also printed the lowercase "d," but we did not go over it.
Tuesday: Jasmine colored the diamond from last week with blue glitter. I defrosted some frozen blueberries, I couldn't find any fresh ones. I hung up our blue window cling.
And our blue ice cream scoop.
Wednesday: was the letter "D" craft. Jasmine made an Duck C using the letter "D" and some feathers from No Time For Flash Cards.
We also colored a "D" worksheet that had an upper and lower case "d" with pictures of things that started with "D" from Mommy Nature.com. Here is the worksheet.
Thursday: was number four. We added another fish to the fish bowl. We got ready for Halloween by making a ghost found on The Artful Crafter here. Instead of a CD we used a paper plate and I let Jasmine paint one side white.
Friday: the nursery rhyme for Friday was Lavender's Blue. I got the full rhyme from Wikipedia. I didn't save where I got the image of the lavender from, but a easy search on Google Images will bring something usable up.
Friday was also Halloween Day for us. Nevada Day is also October 31st, but is celebrated on the last Saturday of October, which happened to be Halloween this year. We went trick-or-treating, Jasmine was a pirate. Saturday we went and watched the Nevada Day parade downtown.
Here is a view of our Learning Poster.
For November we have lots of leaves on our calendar.
What we are currently reading:
Jasmine's selection: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
I got this for Jasmine after we did the "C" caterpillar from last week and she seems to really enjoy the book.
My selection: The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer
I borrowed this from the library and have only just started reading it, so I don't have an opinion on it yet.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Week Three
I know now if we are going to order printer ink online to do it when the printer first starts protesting that it is running out of ink. It took a lot longer to get than I thought it would, about a week and a half. And with my mother visiting we hardly had time to get anything done.
Our travel plans for Thanksgiving got pushed back until the first week of December, and as far as I know we don't have any other plans so hopefully for a few weeks at least we can get back on track.
This weeks theme is Kittens and the vocabulary word is claws, but I changed the theme and the vocabulary work to "Cat," because I think that cat is a reasonably easy three-letter word to spell. I got the picture of the cats from http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398f645e4000500f48d1521a20001-320pi through Google images.
Monday: We went over the letter "C" and did a capital "C" worksheet from School Express found here.
Tuesday: I could not find a diamond activity, so I ended up printing a diamond outline. Later I found shapes and colors window clings at Dollar Tree.
So we will be using those to help Jasmine learn the shapes and colors. They also had a border trim for the shapes with the same pictures as the clings and I cut up one of the trims to use on the Learning Poster.
I also printed out some different colored ice cream scoops from here, and will be using them as we follow the Letter of the Week curriculum.
Wednesday: was the letter "C." Jasmine made an Caterpillar C using the letter "C" and some sparkly pom-poms. I got the idea from No Time For Flash Cards.
We also made a cat with "C"s for its legs and tail, but unfortunately I cannot remember where I found the template for it. I did learn that if a craft needs to be colored and cut that it should be done on separate days.
EDIT: I found the webpage, it is from First-School. And can be found here.
We also colored a "C" worksheet that had an upper and lower case "C" with pictures of things that started with "C" from Mommy Nature.com. Here is the worksheet.
Thursday: was number three. Jasmine can already count to three (and beyond, although she always forgets eight, I don't know why.) So, we continued to count to ten using the number strip. I placed it lower so she can easily reach it.
Friday: the nursery rhyme for Friday was Pussycat, Pussycat. I got the image and rhyme from Mama Lisa, again.
Here is a view of our Learning Poster.
For October we had tons of pumpkins on our calendar.
I also got an alphabet wall border from It's Educational, our local teacher supply store.
I liked how this border had pictures to go along with the letters. It also came with a mini alphabet that I could hang at Jasmine's height.
What we are currently reading:
Jasmine's selection: Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
Jasmine loves this book. One night during bath time my husband read this to her and it has been non-stop ever since.
My selection: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
I got the first book because it sounded interesting, and when I finished that one I had to get this one, the second book, right away. I don't know how I'm going to be able to wait for the third book to come out in paperback.
Our travel plans for Thanksgiving got pushed back until the first week of December, and as far as I know we don't have any other plans so hopefully for a few weeks at least we can get back on track.
This weeks theme is Kittens and the vocabulary word is claws, but I changed the theme and the vocabulary work to "Cat," because I think that cat is a reasonably easy three-letter word to spell. I got the picture of the cats from http://a2.vox.com/6a00e398f645e4000500f48d1521a20001-320pi through Google images.
Monday: We went over the letter "C" and did a capital "C" worksheet from School Express found here.
Tuesday: I could not find a diamond activity, so I ended up printing a diamond outline. Later I found shapes and colors window clings at Dollar Tree.
So we will be using those to help Jasmine learn the shapes and colors. They also had a border trim for the shapes with the same pictures as the clings and I cut up one of the trims to use on the Learning Poster.
I also printed out some different colored ice cream scoops from here, and will be using them as we follow the Letter of the Week curriculum.
Wednesday: was the letter "C." Jasmine made an Caterpillar C using the letter "C" and some sparkly pom-poms. I got the idea from No Time For Flash Cards.
We also made a cat with "C"s for its legs and tail, but unfortunately I cannot remember where I found the template for it. I did learn that if a craft needs to be colored and cut that it should be done on separate days.
EDIT: I found the webpage, it is from First-School. And can be found here.
We also colored a "C" worksheet that had an upper and lower case "C" with pictures of things that started with "C" from Mommy Nature.com. Here is the worksheet.
Thursday: was number three. Jasmine can already count to three (and beyond, although she always forgets eight, I don't know why.) So, we continued to count to ten using the number strip. I placed it lower so she can easily reach it.
Friday: the nursery rhyme for Friday was Pussycat, Pussycat. I got the image and rhyme from Mama Lisa, again.
Here is a view of our Learning Poster.
For October we had tons of pumpkins on our calendar.
I also got an alphabet wall border from It's Educational, our local teacher supply store.
I liked how this border had pictures to go along with the letters. It also came with a mini alphabet that I could hang at Jasmine's height.
What we are currently reading:
Jasmine's selection: Where the Wild Things are by Maurice Sendak
Jasmine loves this book. One night during bath time my husband read this to her and it has been non-stop ever since.
My selection: The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton Lee Stewart
I got the first book because it sounded interesting, and when I finished that one I had to get this one, the second book, right away. I don't know how I'm going to be able to wait for the third book to come out in paperback.
Muffin Tin Monday
We missed the last two Muffin Tin Mondays, my mother was visiting and we just got so busy that I couldn't really plan anything out.
This weeks theme is Fall Harvest/Halloween. So I used pumpkin muffin liners and pumpkin picks that I got a year ago. Today I just made a snack tray and we have clockwise, apple pieces, cucumber slices, pieces of bread (Jasmine asked for them), and corn.
This weeks theme is Fall Harvest/Halloween. So I used pumpkin muffin liners and pumpkin picks that I got a year ago. Today I just made a snack tray and we have clockwise, apple pieces, cucumber slices, pieces of bread (Jasmine asked for them), and corn.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Muffin Tin Monday
Today's theme is "All about me."
Top, left to right: Jasmine took her orange juice, vitamins (vitamin C, mulit-vitamin, calcium and Omega-3), olives for her Italian side.
Bottom, left to right: Jell-O, cheese sticks (it is the only cheese like thing I can get her to eat after 3 years of not being able to eat cheese,) and seaweed wrapped rice for her Korean side.
Top, left to right: Jasmine took her orange juice, vitamins (vitamin C, mulit-vitamin, calcium and Omega-3), olives for her Italian side.
Bottom, left to right: Jell-O, cheese sticks (it is the only cheese like thing I can get her to eat after 3 years of not being able to eat cheese,) and seaweed wrapped rice for her Korean side.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Muffin Tin Monday
I've joined Muffing Tin Monday.
This week didn't have a theme, so I just put a snack tin together for Jasmine so she could snack throughout the day. I swear I'm not feeding her rabbit food, she actually likes these foods.
We have from left to right on the top row: Orange juice (really half orange juice, half water), goldfish crackers, cucumber spears. Bottom row: carrot sticks (this is a second refill, Jasmine ate them all while I finished putting the rest of the tin together), celery sticks, beans sprouts.
This week didn't have a theme, so I just put a snack tin together for Jasmine so she could snack throughout the day. I swear I'm not feeding her rabbit food, she actually likes these foods.
We have from left to right on the top row: Orange juice (really half orange juice, half water), goldfish crackers, cucumber spears. Bottom row: carrot sticks (this is a second refill, Jasmine ate them all while I finished putting the rest of the tin together), celery sticks, beans sprouts.
Oops!
Week 3 will be late, not because we didn't finish, but because I ran out of ink for our printer for one project. The ink is the only think holding us back, we also can't start week 4 because I can't print out the activities.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Our homeschool setup
I asked some fellow homeschoolers, and did some searches to see how people organize their classrooms and supplies. I thought I would share what I've done for our stuff.
Starting on the left side of our dining area (we have an open floor plan for the kitchen/dining room/living room.)
Here is Jasmine's easel with her project "Caterpillar C," from No Time for Flashcards.
Here are the new days of the week and weather for our calendar.
I put them on the wall between our two windows to keep them out of the way and so Jasmine wouldn't mess them up.
Here is our right-side window. I added some Autumn leaves that I got from Michael's craft store for about $1.49 (I think, I'm not positive on the price,) they have little bits of gold glitter on them.
I ordered some Autumn/Halloween/Christmas crafts from Oriental Trading Company so we will be adding to this window and maybe the left-side window. I maybe rearrange this window because Jasmine's easel sits in front of the left-side window, making it impossible to see the window.
I lowered Jasmine's Learning Poster so I could fit this number poster where she could reach it. For some reason Jasmine has decided to skip 3 and 8 in her counting, even though she previously counted 3, but never 8.
I got this five drawer unit from Wal-Mart. I wish one of the two bottom draws had been file folder size, that would have made it perfect.
In the bottom drawer I put our large packages of craft supplies, crinkle grass and multi-color feathers.
In the second large drawer I put our paint supplies and glue.
There should be some dot-to-dot paint dabbers, but they were on the easel to use on the caterpillar.
In the bottom small drawer I put all of our scrapes, paper and felt.
The middle small drawer holds my glue gun, glitter glue, paint wheel and paints that Jasmine isn't ready to use.
The top small drawer has triangle crayons, jumbo crayons and word strips that I use for Jasmine's Learning Poster.
Underneath that is two packages of pipe cleaners (one white and the other multi-colored,) glue gel pens, goggly eyes, more word strips and some cheap paint brushes.
I got this file folder crate from Wal-Mart.
It holds 26 pocket folders, in rainbow colors also from Wal-Mart, for Jasmine's Letter of the Week work.
I keep the print-outs and instructions on one side, and finished crafts on the other.
I also made seasonal folders.
Most of the crafts I ordered from Oriental Trading came in sets of 12. I figured we could do 6 this year and I will put the extras in the folders to save for next year. I also plan on making folders for holidays (e.g. Halloween) since I did get separate crafts for Autumn and Halloween, Winter and Christmas.
Starting on the left side of our dining area (we have an open floor plan for the kitchen/dining room/living room.)
Here is Jasmine's easel with her project "Caterpillar C," from No Time for Flashcards.
Here are the new days of the week and weather for our calendar.
I put them on the wall between our two windows to keep them out of the way and so Jasmine wouldn't mess them up.
Here is our right-side window. I added some Autumn leaves that I got from Michael's craft store for about $1.49 (I think, I'm not positive on the price,) they have little bits of gold glitter on them.
I ordered some Autumn/Halloween/Christmas crafts from Oriental Trading Company so we will be adding to this window and maybe the left-side window. I maybe rearrange this window because Jasmine's easel sits in front of the left-side window, making it impossible to see the window.
I lowered Jasmine's Learning Poster so I could fit this number poster where she could reach it. For some reason Jasmine has decided to skip 3 and 8 in her counting, even though she previously counted 3, but never 8.
I got this five drawer unit from Wal-Mart. I wish one of the two bottom draws had been file folder size, that would have made it perfect.
In the bottom drawer I put our large packages of craft supplies, crinkle grass and multi-color feathers.
In the second large drawer I put our paint supplies and glue.
There should be some dot-to-dot paint dabbers, but they were on the easel to use on the caterpillar.
In the bottom small drawer I put all of our scrapes, paper and felt.
The middle small drawer holds my glue gun, glitter glue, paint wheel and paints that Jasmine isn't ready to use.
The top small drawer has triangle crayons, jumbo crayons and word strips that I use for Jasmine's Learning Poster.
Underneath that is two packages of pipe cleaners (one white and the other multi-colored,) glue gel pens, goggly eyes, more word strips and some cheap paint brushes.
I got this file folder crate from Wal-Mart.
It holds 26 pocket folders, in rainbow colors also from Wal-Mart, for Jasmine's Letter of the Week work.
I keep the print-outs and instructions on one side, and finished crafts on the other.
I also made seasonal folders.
Most of the crafts I ordered from Oriental Trading came in sets of 12. I figured we could do 6 this year and I will put the extras in the folders to save for next year. I also plan on making folders for holidays (e.g. Halloween) since I did get separate crafts for Autumn and Halloween, Winter and Christmas.
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