Last year I found that I was leaving out lots of fun stuff you probably get to do in real school. I was also kind of dreading the monotony of school day in and day out, so if I was dreading it I can only imagine what Emma must have been feeling :/
So this year I've instilled theme weeks. It's like college all over again or something.
Anyway our first week we had Penguins as our theme! And why penguins you ask?
Because we read Mr. Popper's Penguins! I remember reading this in grade school and loving it so I was super excited to read it with the kiddos. One of my dear friends, Kristina suggested getting copies for everyone so we can take turns reading or just to follow along. It was a big help! We also used some components from a
Unit Study I found online for the book. It was awesome! It had chapter work planned out that you could do for your entire schooling and covered math, vocabulary, history, etc. It was so much fun and so packed with helpful info!
I've tried to incorporate some worksheets into their school every week too. While I can't make all of their work theme-ish, it is fun when I can make some of it. I got this worksheet from
Super Teacher Worksheets.
Emma's not doing a penguin worksheet but I had to include this because it's just too cute. This is her "I'm thinking really hard" look :)
We also made penguins... Calvin using two colors and them not being blue is a huge, huge step forward folks :)
Here was Emma's finished product. Seriously, how adorable are these two together? I got this craft from
Lakeshore Learning's site. They have cute projects!
In addition to the things listed we made pbj's on fish shaped bread, snacked on goldfish crackers, read penguin books, made a penguin lapbook, and as our final event we watched
March of the Penguins which the kids LOVED!!! I think that movie helped them understand penguins than anything else we studied.
So excited to share with you our themes throughout the year! If you have any ideas for themes, please let me know! :)
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