Day 16

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Day 14

Homeschooling... the beginning

Since a became a Mum homeschooling has appealed to me more and more, although at first hubby wasn't keen as the few real life examples he's had prior to having kids were enough to put anyone off.

As our oldest George has gotten closer and closer to 5 which is the age that most children start school in New Zealand, hubby and I have talked more and more about it and we've decided that we will give homeschooling a go at least until George is 6 which is when he has to legally either be enrolled in a school or have an exemption from the Ministry of Education so I can  legally home school.

Even though George is still only 4 years old I decided that I would start schooling at home from the beginning of this year.

This is what has been keeping me busy for the last couple of weeks.  I've been looking at different curriculum ideas and get planning.  At  George's age I want things to be mainly play based but I want him to start learning to write letters.

After looking around I decided to purchase the Letter of the week curriculum from Confessions of a Homeschooler.  I've used some of her printable in the pass and  George loves them, I hope to do a letter a week but depending on how long it takes us to do all the activities we might do two a week instead.

I also brought  a Homeschool-Planner from Homeschool creations which will hopefully keep me on track, I also love to make lists so I now have the one place for all my home schooling notes.

Hands on Play - Week Two

Week two - Ride a horse.

Every time I take the kids to the supermarket Grace always heads to the ride on toys.  I usually have to drag her away screaming.  I've tried letting her play before hand but then she's unhappy the whole time I'm shopping as she just wants to go back, and also tried letting her play afterwards but then it's hard to get her to leave while carrying my shopping and getting her into the car to go home. 

So far a change I headed down to the supermarket with no plans to buy anything, only to let George and Grace play as long as they wanted. 

Next weeks challenge: Paint

Day 11

Day 10

Rain rain go away, come again another day.

I really do want to play.

1. Sunrise
2. Rain
3. Chicken
4. House
5. Strawberries
6. Horse
7. Cars
8. Tomatoes
9. Juice
10. Worms
11. Eyes
12. Bunny
13. Toys
14. Ribbon
15. Pop
16. Bubbles
17. Police
18. Ink
19. Recycle
20. Umbrella
21. Robot
22. Plants
23. Patch
24. Fur
25. Art
26. Dance
27. Literature
28. Sliding
29. Zip
30. Shoes
31. Collection