August Homeschool Favorites

Hi guys! I wanted to share with you some new homeschool products we've been loving this month. This is a collaboration with some other great homeschool mommies make sure to check them out.

Full Time Wife Life
Our Muslim Homeschool

Kwik Stix 

The first product is these kwik Stix paint sticks. They're tempera paint but a stick version. No mess, it dries in 90 seconds, and there are 6 colors in each pack. I purchased one pack at a local craft store and we've been loving how easy they are to use. I let the boys take them out whenever they're feeling crafty. the downside is that the sticks are small so they wont last for too long.

Here's a craft we did using the paint sticks, just to give you an idea. 

Hot Dots Jr/Preschool Prep:

These next two items are for my preschooler, Hot Dots Jr and Preschool Prep dvds. He loves the Preschool Prep dvds he has learned so much from them. 

I purchased ours off of Zulilly. We got the letters, numbers, shapes, colors and sight word pack.

He loves using the little owl pen with the cards. I purchased the numbers and letter cards but there are other options you can chose from.

Carmen Sandiego:

I remember watching this when I was younger, it brought back so many memories. The kids are after Carmen who is a thief that steals precious artifacts from all over the world. It covers history, and geography in a fun way.  The quality of the dvds aren't what our kids are use to now a days but it's educational and my boys found so many connections in what were learning.

That's it for our favorites this month. What are you and your kids loving this month?

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Homeschool Weekly Wrap Up

Hi guys! Here's what we've been up to this week.

Language Arts:

My first grader learned all about the author Kevin Henkes and enjoyed a lot of his books. We worked on Character description, story summary, and compound words. 

Directed drawing of one of the characters in the story. 

Both boys also worked on a informational passage about grasshopper mice. We worked on finding the main idea in a passage and supporting details. 

Science:

This week we learned about the skeletal system and did some fun demonstrations. 

We did a demonstration on what would happen if we didn't have fluid around a brain using an egg. 

We also learned about all the ways our skeleton is important to our day to day lives. 

Islamic Studies:

This week we read about the story of Ibrahim and the call to Hajj and we also learned about Yusuf (AS)

Yusuf (AS) and the well craft and journaling.  

Preschool:

This week my preschooler worked on the letter R you can read all about that here.

 

 Books:

Here's some of the books we enjoyed this week. We also finished reading our first read aloud The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane.

That's it for our week, I hope you guys had a fabulous week too.


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Weekly Wrap Up

April Homeschool Favorites

Hi guys, I wanted to share some of the things we've been enjoying in our homeschool this month. I am joining in with April Homeschool Favorites collaboration with Full Time Wife Life you can check out her YouTube channel here.

The first thing we have been enjoying are these Safari Life Cycle figurines. My kids have loved matching the different life cycle and it has been a fun hands on learning experience. I put together some 3 part matching cards to use along with the figurines you can check out the blog post here.  

The Second thing we have been enjoying is this book Stories from Around the World. My kids love listening and reading about all the different fairy tales and cultural stories.

The last thing we have been loving are these large dice I purchased from dollar tree. They're old but my boys have recently gotten into them and we have been playing lots of math review games here. 

I really enjoyed putting this together. What are some of your homeschool favorites? :)