Plans for the week of September 8th, 2008

Preschool:

Practical Life
Bean Transfer with Whole Hand

Sensorial
Knobbed Cylinder A (3s)
Block Tower Extension (4s)
Sandpaper Shapes - Circle

Language
Object to Object Matching Lesson (3s)
Sandpaper Letters & Red Series - R Lesson (4s)
Along the Alphabet Path “B”
Nursery Rhyme - An Apple A Day

Writing
Writing Letters in Sand
Metal Insets (4s)

Literature
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear?
Blueberries for Sal

Botany
Trees – Tree Puzzle

Zoology
Bird - Bird Puzzle

Geography
Land, Water, Air Lesson

Math
Number 0
Sandpaper Numerals (4s)

Music
Listen to Sousa
Listen to Bugle Fairy song

Art
Museum ABC - B is for Boat
Introduce Mona Lisa print by da Vinci

Social Development
All About Me – Height Charts

Seasonal Topic:
Harvest - collecting seeds and gathering vegetables

Outside Time:
Play with ball
Look at bugs
Float boat in water table
Blow bubbles
Use a bulldozer in the sand

3rd Grade:

Religion/Copywork (daily)
Old Testament from Penny Gardner’s reading list

Literature (daily)
Little House on the Prairie

Language (daily)
Imitation in Writing – Work on Princess and the Pea fairy tale (3 days a week)
P is for Poetry – Letter B (one day a week)
Flower Fairies - Write a different poem for the Bugle Fairy (one day a week)

History (three times a week)
Read Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharoahs
Do a project from Spend the Day in Ancient Egypt
Read the 5,000 Year Old Puzzle

Geography (twice a week)
Study about Alabama – State Quarter website
Make Strait and Isthmus landforms

Math (daily)
Begin work with Math-U-See

Geometry (twice a week)
Concept of a Solid

Botany (three times a week)
Work on Plant Kingdom Charts
Do botanical information for Flower Fairy "B"
Look at leaves outside

Zoology (two times a week)
Work on Six Kingdom Charts
Do zoological information for bird
Look at birds outside

Main Lesson (three days a week)
Learn how to use dehydrator and dry fruits and vegetables

Practical Life (three days a week)
Cook for Letter B activity – Banana Bread (one day a week)
Buy toolbox (one day a week)
Sew a straight stitch (one day a week)

Handwork (two days a week)
Do first lesson of knitting

Music (4-5 days a week)
Go to Homeschool Choir (one day a week)
Practice Recorder (two days a week)
Study anthems from other countries (one day a week)
Read about Stephen Foster (one day a week)

Art (4-5 days a week)
Study Michelangelo (one day a week)
Recreate one of his paintings or sculptures (one day a week)
Watercolor painting (one day a week)
Free Art (one day a week)