ABC 123 at Home!: Happy New Year's Eve 2014!

A wonderful 2014! Never did I imagine myself homeschooling with 3 kids, but this is where God has led us and I absolutely LOVE this precious time with my children!

We had a nice day of school today! I took some time while family was here to clean and organize our space better for a good start to the new year! I am doing a good system of "work boxes" which works really well.

Connor keeps his calendar notebook on his table. He starts the morning everyday with that.

Here are the tabs of things we keep in there. Along with the calendar is counting the number of days of school in tally marks per month and also in a number chart. We also do the coin cup (to count money) and beans cup (for place value) every day.

Here's a picture of their table area, and my desk/storage area. I love that their table is next to windows.

Back to the work box system... After the calendar stuff, we move to box #1 which is our bible story for the day OR our morning devotion reading (which involves some type of bible lesson and character lesson such as patience, perseverance, and traits like that).

Box #2 is our language arts lesson for the day. Today was a lesson about what common nouns are. It uses the "classical education" model which uses: memory work, copy work, narration and grammar. We will be memorizing poems this year which I think is neat. We also memorize bible verses.

In box #3 is our reading lesson for the day.

Box #4 is math. For the second half of the year I am starting with a new program called horizons. I think our old program was fun, but moved a little too slow. I can tell I will already be happy with this!

Box #5 are books that Connor reads by himself. They are called "readers" in the homeschool world.

Box #6 is science and social studies.

Box #7 and on will hold extra things such as: sight word worksheets and games, journal entry pages, art, crafts, games, lollipop logic worksheets, pattern blocks and cuisinaire rods (fun educational things to manipulate), and theme/unit studies that I buy off teacherspayteachers.com

Here was today:

A reading game using our friend ziggy the zebra puppet.