this week, we started math-u-see primer. we are officially on lesson 6. originally, i had only intended on doing math maybe twice a week, like we do science and history, but beau kept zooming through the lessons, and i realized that math is slowly becoming his favorite part of seatwork.so now i'm faced with the realization that we're probably going to have to buy the alpha book for christmas. which is actually kind of exciting.
and. starting tomorrow, we are starting two, count 'em, TWO new subjects.
#1, spelling. because it's about dern time. and #2, geography, because darn you rachel and your random curriculum you don't want and are willing to sell "for cheap."
both of which look seriously fun. (again, i know i'm a dork. shut up.) and yes, i am serious. the only problem is that now i have five extra worksheets a week and i have to figure out on what days to put them because i don't want beau exceedingly swamped with worksheets like two days a week with nothing in between.
i also downloaded this seriously cool (to seriously unhinged people, naturally) lesson planner which calmed the hives i was starting to get over the scheduling worksheets thing. i'm hive-free now. figuratively speaking.
and since i know you all want to know what it looks like, i'll include a link. click here to see the source of my sooper crazy, diet coke-induced excited-ness. also, superteacherworksheets.com (the source) is pretty much an EXCELLENT resource for printables.
speaking of moar and MOAR worksheets (which, by the way, would make an excellent name for a printables website), this site has lots of worksheets sorted by subject and grade level. just sayin.
i can say, totally completely without irony, that i am SOOPER EXCITED about school tomorrow. we're starting a unit on the aztecs in history and on heat and electric energy in science. also, spelling.
we are now OFFICIALLY covering all the subjects mentioned for first grade in home learning year by year. i. am. stoked.
LOVE it...& i am a dork too as you might have noticed by my facebook posts lately about grace's work(reading eggs oh & that site i shared with the math). i am so glad you are all into school, it makes me excited abou it too!!
ReplyDeleteps. i totally stole the pic from this post :)
I love your blog! and if I could figure out how to reply to your comment on mine I would do so! *L* I'm also super loving the recommended websites you posted! Every little bit helps us out! :)
ReplyDeletetwylia, your facebook posts are always fun...i keep meaning to tell you that i thoroughly enjoy them! and no worries about the stealing of the pic; i stole them, too! except i edited the first one a smidge, lol.
ReplyDeletecharlene, i'm so glad you enjoy my sooper craziness! and those websites have been great to us so far, so i thought i'd share! i'm glad you like them, too, and i'm not the only one who's a dork about homeschooling! (oh, and to reply to comments, just go below and post another one; that's what i do! see? lol)
I can't believe you are cheating on me. I know...my little excel file is not on a website with "super" in the name, so it's not nearly as cool. Whatever. I'll get over it because I like you.
ReplyDeleteOh, and Twylia -- thanks SOOOO much for the Reading Eggs link. Cuz I seriously need one more thing for the boys to do. Thanks. A lot. =/
rachel, relax. i'm still using your excel file. like religiously. so calm down. i'm only using this to do a weekly overview because it accommodates my sprawly handwriting better. it goes over two pages and i couldn't be arsed to extend all the little cells in excel to make it big enough for me, and this presented itself. so shut. up.
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