{"id":2558,"date":"2013-01-21T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/?p=2558"},"modified":"2024-07-06T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T14:24:27","slug":"kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/kindergarten","title":{"rendered":"Kindergarten!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, we’ll be finishing up my “tweener” plan that accomplished its goal of making Hannah wait until she turns 5 to start the Sonlight Core A (the kinder core). Lots of people even wait until their children are 6 due to some of the content, but I think Hannah will be fine. The following is my plan for the next year:<\/p>\n

This is what my Core A shelf looks like currently. We tend to get things all over the place in the course of our days and nights, but everyone knows that the books with the labels need to go back on their shelf. This will be more important now that I’m running Hannah in one set of books and Benjamin in another. Hopefully we won’t lose any ‘school’ books.<\/p>\n

And this is my Language Arts (LA) shelf. Hannah has already read almost all the books in this set, but I’ve heard that other people also have this problem where the reading level is higher than the grammar\/writing level. Most people allow them to read ahead and just have them re-read the reader section for the lesson of the day and plug along with the other work, so that’s going to be my plan. We can also get other readers from the library if she gets bored with our options. As of right now, she is pretty content to read and reread the same books. She’s really into the Dr. Seuss ones currently.<\/p>\n

This year we also get to add in some more specific science activities. In the preschool cores, the science part was just specific books\/stories that explain scientific topics well, but we’ll be having some worksheets, books, and experiments this year. This will probably be where I struggle more as it will require me to do a little bit more prep than I’ve been doing and also add in a “science time” to our day. We’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n

We also get this cool wall map. As we do our core books and come across places in the world, we’ll go to the map and mark\/label them. Another thing that I’m excited about is called a book of time. Its basically a timeline with hundreds of pages showing I think 100 years per page spread. We get little stickers of people that we’ll get to color and put on our timeline as we go through our stories. This will be a book we keep adding to through all our years and will help the kids ‘place’ people and events in the grand scheme of history.<\/p>\n


\nThis is what our set of books look like except Hannah will be doing 1st grade handwriting and 1st grade LA (some of the books shown are Kinder LA). And I didn’t buy the manipulative set for the Math.
\nIndividual images of core books<\/a>
\n Individual images of science books <\/a><\/p>\n

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Overall, I think it will take 15-30 min for core, 15-30 min for LA, 15-30 min for science, 15-30 min for math, and maybe some art time. 1-2 hours per day. Not too shabby. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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A list of all the core books:
\nA Grain of Rice
\nBeezus and Ramona
\nCloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
\nCore A Tips – CD
\nCore A Instructor’s Guide
\nDolphin Adventure
\nDolphin Treasure
\nEgermeier’s Bible Story Book
\nFive True Dog Stories
\nHere’s a Penny
\nI Heard Good News Today
\nIn Grandma’s Attic
\nJames Herriot’s Treasury for Children
\nJohnny Appleseed: The Story of a Legend
\nLeast of All
\nLittle House in the Big Woods
\nLiving Long Ago
\nMary on Horseback
\nMy Father’s Dragon
\nNo Children, No Pets
\nRichard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book
\nSing the Word: From A to Z – CD
\nSonlight’s Create-A-Calendar
\nThe Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
\nThe Boxcar Children
\nThe Complete Adventures of Curious George
\nThe House at Pooh Corner
\nThe Hundred Dresses
\nThe Light at Tern Rock
\nThe Llama Who Had No Pajama
\nThe Story About Ping
\nThe Story of Dr. Dolittle
\nBook of Time
\nTimeline Figures A
\nTwenty and Ten
\nUsborne Internet-Linked Children’s Encyclopedia
\nWild Places
\nWorld\/USA Markable Map with Markers<\/p>\n

Science Books:
\nScience IG
\nWeather
\nHow Flowers Grow
\nIsaac Newton and the Laws of Motion
\nScience Activities, Vol. 2
\nDiscover & Do Level K DVD
\nUnder the Sea
\nCaterpillars and Butterflies
\nEggs and Chicks
\nTadpoles and Frogs
\nNon-Consumable Science Supplies Kit
\nScience Supplies Kit A<\/p>\n

Math:
\nHorizons Math K
\nHorizons Kindergarten Math Manipulatives
\nMathTacular\u00ae<\/p>\n

Language Arts:
\nLA1 Instructors Guide
\nA Big Ball of String
\nPut Me in the Zoo
\nThe Best Trick
\nA Fly Went By
\nGreen Eggs and Ham
\nI Can Read It Book 1
\nI Can Read It Book 2 – new version
\nI Can Read It Book 3 – new version
\nI Can Read It! Word Lists
\nLittle Bear
\nOne Fish, Two Fish…
\nThe Bravest Dog Ever
\nThe Cat in the Hat
\nExplode the Code 1
\nExplode the Code 2
\nExplode the Code 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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