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Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts / Math: Preschool Math
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 28, 2013 · Last modified October 10, 2016
Yesterday, I shared the free math lapbook I made for my daughter. Depending on your child it may be appropriate for kids between 4 and 6 or so. Today I wanted to share a little bit about how I’m using the calendar pieces. She’s been taking the days of the week from the lapbook and putting them in order She’s then been using these in her daily calendar page. If...
Kindergarten / Kindergarten Math / Lapbooks / Math General Posts / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 27, 2013 · Last modified February 18, 2017
At the end of the year last year, I had ED cut out and put together a math lapbook. We didn’t go over much of the material in it, but I wanted the lapbook mostly done for the beginning of this year. We had a few finishing touches. For example, we hadn’t attached the left and right hands — so ED glued those on the front of her lapbook. (We...
Kindergarten / Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 26, 2013 · Last modified March 10, 2016
We took much of the summer off. We started easing back into a bit of school after our trip to Colorado. We start earlier than others in our area because we take time off and family trips when it suits us. Day One: Over the summer, I continued to skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s when she brushed her teeth. Since we never really covered the concept of odds...
Ages 2-6: Theme Time (age 2-4) / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 21, 2013 · Last modified February 9, 2017
This is a post from several years ago that had its own separate page. At the time the kids were about 18-20 months (or so), 3 years old and 5 years old (I’m not sure exactly when because the page wasn’t dated). We still lived in Australia at the time I wrote this post. A Day in the Life of Our Homeschool Someone asked me what our homeschool schedule looks...
Ages 2-6: Fire Safety / Language Arts: Reading
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 10, 2013
Here are two books that have made the kids laugh a lot, while covering some important safety tips… Things like… Don’t take rides from strangers. Never stand on a swivel chair. In case of fire — Get outside as fast as possible and don’t stop to take along your favorite things. We borrowed a book from the library that was so funny! It’s called Dinosaurs Beware! A Safety Guide by...
Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation / Kindergarten
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published August 9, 2013 · Last modified December 12, 2016
I had to submit our Notice of Intent to Homeschool and even though I don’t have to go into much detail about our curriculum, I use that as my deadline for roughly mapping out the school year. The kids are in Grades 5, 3 and Kindergarten this year. I pulled out some (but not all) of the resources we’ll be using for a quick photo: Here are some of the...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten / Language Arts: Reading / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 16, 2013 · Last modified March 7, 2016
Earlier this summer ED switched back to the Bob Book series for a little while and I made some worksheets to go along with them. She really liked working on these. I hope someone else finds them useful. As always, they are free to download. If you’d like to share or pin, go ahead just link back to my original post. Thanks! If you use them I’d love to hear...
Active Math Games / Kindergarten / Math General Posts / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 11, 2013
Practically everyone has a Candy Land board around, right? I came across an adorable addition game to go along with the classic board game Candy Land. If you’re looking to review some basic math facts with your child this summer you might want to print out the cards offered by Mel at Teachers Pay Teachers. It’s free at the moment; I don’t know if it normally costs something to download...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Freebies / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / Language Arts: Reading / Must Read / Science
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published July 10, 2013 · Last modified June 23, 2015
I am trying to do some general organizing this summer for the next school year. I’ve been trying to figure out what science units we’ll do this next year and also wanted to be sure that I’m covering some fun/basic information with the kids. My oldest loved science from very early on and we added lots and lots of books to read aloud when he was in preschool-kindergarten. At the...
Active Math Games / Freebies / Kindergarten / Math General Posts / Math--Addition / Math--Fractions / Math--Multiplication
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 26, 2013 · Last modified June 23, 2015
We are only doing a light amount of school work at the moment, but I want to keep some of their math facts and skills fresh. Here are some math games I made to play with the kids. I made them in a patriotic theme since next Thursday is Independence Day, the 4th of July. My youngest is practicing doubling (1+1, 2+2, etc.). My other daughter is practicing squares (3×3, 7×7,...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation / Math: Preschool Math / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 17, 2013 · Last modified January 28, 2018
Each year at the end of the year, I put together a post that looks back at our school year. ED has had a great year. She was 4 this year and turned 5 this spring. We homeschool together… so ED participates with my older two kids in all their activities. Some of these units (like the 5 senses) were mainly for ED, others were mainly for the older kids, but...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Random Thoughts
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 13, 2013
Today I listened to an interview with Peter Gray, a psychologist who examines the importance of play over at the (free online) unschooling summit. Despite yesterday’s post, Summer Learning, where I talked about the academic focus of our homeschool, the truth is my children play a lot especially compared to their public school friends. After listening to his interview and cruising some of the articles he posted on his website, Freedom...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.)
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published June 12, 2013
One question homeschoolers often ask each other is, “Will you do school during the summer?” For us, the answer is… some of the time. We take vacations when it suits us even when (or maybe especially when!) public school kids are in school. We also take vacation trips in the summer since some of our the kids’ cousins don’t homeschool and we try to catch up with them once a...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Freebies / History: Africa Unit / History: Geography Activities / Montessori (general info) / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published May 30, 2013 · Last modified March 26, 2016
Yesterday someone asked me how the tune to the 7 Continents song goes that we use in geography. We decided to try our hand making a video to help. ED sang the song by herself the first time through… then all the kids joined in the other two times. When they were first learning the seven continents they pointed (at first with my help) to each continent. When they were...
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