Yesterday was A Day in the Life of Our Kindergarten - Part 1 where I went through the overall schedule of our day. Today I'll share the details and breakdown of a typical day of school...
For calendar time we talk about days/weeks/months/years. The girls take turns marking our day and then counting how many days we are into the month. They have to say the day correctly, "Today is Wednesday, August 15th 2012" and then they say what yesterday was and tomorrow will be. We then sing our days of the week and months of the year songs. The person who didn't mark the calendar gets to go outside and tell us what the weather is like. Living in Southern California it's usually just hot and sunny so I plan to change our weather area a bit so it's more than just the actual weather, but seasons, etc.
After our calendar time we go into song and movement (one of the girls favorite times of the day.) I choose an old Sunday School song that we sing and do the hand motions to, and then M/W/F we do a movement song as well where they get to follow directions and dance around the room.
We then sit down and have our Bible time (in my eyes the most important part of our day) where we go over our virtue of the week and then I read a passage from the Bible that covers that virtue and ask questions to the girls about what we've read. Once AWANA starts we'll do their weekly Sparks lesson and memory verse Mon-Wed and focus more on our Bible lesson that teaches the virtue on Thurs-Fri, but we'll review the virtue and talk about it all week.
After Bible we do our handwriting worksheet and whatever activity I've planned to round out our day. Sometimes it's an extra writing activity, shape & pattern builders, or even a game. Sometimes it's more art related like lacing cards, drawing, and other times we work with numbers. I try to keep this fun and very hands on though.
First day of school: Dancing for song and movement time. Reviewing our lowercase alphabet recognition with Confessions of a Homeschooler's K5 alphabet tree. Math-U-See worksheet. Virtue of the week. TYCTR phonics lesson. Handwriting alphabet review.
After our snack we do our Math-U-See lessons. I started the girls in the primer book, and although they are way ahead of where it's starting I want to make sure they have the foundation they need to move on. I'm doing 2 lessons a week for now until we get to point where it isn't so easy and then we'll move to a lesson per week.
We do art next and work on things like cutting, pasting, and basic art terminology. We do projects about once a week using different mediums. After art we do our language which happens to be ASL since my brother is deaf and we want the girls to be able to sign to him. We review our alphabet and then each week we learn a variety of vocab words that correlate with the letter we're working on.
This ends the time in our schoolroom and we head to the family room to do our phonics and reading snuggled up on the sofa. Now that the girls are advancing in their reading I'm doing their phonics lesson separately so I really know what they are individually learning and they can't help each other. Whoever goes first comes with me to do their reading lesson and the other one stays and uses their leapfrog TAG reader or our Britannica science pen to read on their own.
After I've finished with both of their phonics lessons we read a few library books together. We always start with the science one they picked out from the library and do a few pages of that and discuss it together before reading a few books for fun.
First Day of School: Cutting practice. Name handwriting practice. ASL Alphabet flashcards. Snack time.
Linked up with "Day in the Life" Week at the Not Back to School Blog Hop over at iHomeschool Network.
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