What's In the Box Wednesday

Today I am going to share what is in our work boxes with you. I will start with Isabella's boxes. She is 8 and her boxes are mostly 3rd-4th grade material.

1. Math - Singapore Math 3B

2. Language Arts - Learning Language Arts Through Literature (Yellow Book), Little House in the Big Woods, Handwriting Without Tears

3. Geography - Wee Sing Around the World, Daily Geography Practice, Jason's Miracle, A Hannukah Story

4. Science - Exploring Creation With Zoology 2, Make it Work! Oceans, Life in the Oceans

                   We also did a couple of experiments today, that wouldn't fit in the box. They will be posted on

                   my science blog tomorrow!

5. Electives - Today's choices are Bible (Willing to Wait) and Art (we will make a cereal box mosaic, which you will see the instructions for on my art blog this week...)

Up next is Alex's boxes! Alex is 3 1/2 and does preschool work. 

1. Math - Number recognition, patterns, and measuring.

    The measuring activity came from Walking By the Way

    The number recognition and patterns worksheets came from Confession of A Homeschooler

2. Language Arts - Alex is working on the letter "J" today, and also he is beginning to use Hooked on Phonics. We are reading the book Jack Frost to continue a study we are doing on snow.

3. Alex does geography with Bella, and there is also a shapes worksheet in this box today.

4. Science - God's World 

                   Alex is also very interested in the experiments I do with Bella, even if he isn't quite old enough to understand them all yet.

So, there are our boxes for this week! What are in your boxes? Feel free to add a link to your page to the side bar on the right or to the comments and share! 

 

Little House In The Big Woods - Chapter 1

The New Year brings a lot of exciting opportunities around here. I love to spend my Christmas break pouring over websites and books trying to get new ideas for the upcoming semester. Last semester we did a Unit Study on Alice in Wonderland, the semester before we did The Swiss Family Robinson. This semester I have decided to do a Unit Study on The Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Rather than buy something I am reading through the book and putting together my own ideas as they come to me, and then I am sharing with you. This should be fun, but bear with me! (Please!) My children are 8 and 3. The majority of this curriculum is stuff I found that I will be trying to adjust to use with my 8 year old, and a few things I throw in for fun with my 3 year old.

For this week I will just post a list of books I am using for the first weeks science (so you could get them from the library or what have you) and then I will start posting the actual plans next week...otherwise, I won't have pictures or know how well they worked because my daughter just started using this curriculum yesterday. I can't wait to share!