California State Parks Checklist

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California State Parks Checklist After this last year plus of quarantine, I'm itching to get out more. But, not too far out for now. So, as I plan for next year, I was thinking we…

Learning Plan: Age 6

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Well, the new year has started!  This is our first official year, paperwork included, as a private school here in California.  California doesn't have homeschoolers.  Those who are homeschooling without the support of a public…

Learning Plan: Age 5

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And so it begins!  For reals! Well, kinda. My homeschooling, in a legal sense, will start for real next year, but I'm going to use this year as a sounding board for the best way…

Tot School: Fall Theme

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It's been over two years since I did this theme.  I got pregnant that year and a lot of my tot school posts went to the wayside. So, I figured at least I could post…

What A Four Year Old Can Learn

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Last year I realized that it was a bit of a misnomer to call this list "goals," as I wasn't really focused on trying to get her to accomplish them.  It was more just keeping…

Butterfly Life Cycle Party

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At the end of our study of butterflies, we had a party with a few family friends.  Initially I was going to have them do tons of butterfly activities, but as I started really delving…

Butterfly Life Cycle Party: Directions

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Here are the directions I had at each station.  This site, Learn About Butterflies, is great for printing any images  you want to show them.  It's also really interesting and will give you a greater…

Butterfly Study

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My wonderful sister-in-law set us up with a sweet deal for a caterpillar so we could watch the transformation to a butterfly (note: this was almost a  year ago!! We're coming up on time to…

Letter of the Week – Letter V

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Day 1 Find v stickers and put on V Color and assemble Letter V Book Go to library and get v books Put out V words (vacuum, vase...I highly recommend using masking or painting tape…

“T” Party

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During our Letter T week, we had a "T" party...get it, T like tea. :) We initially were going for Tuesday the twenty-first at ten. But, then decided to have it while we had some…

Letter of the Week – Letter T

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This week we started day 1 on a Wednesday, skipped the weekend and ended with day 5 on a Tuesday.  Because, really, you can't have a T Party on any other day. :) Day 1…

Camping

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There was a camping trip planned with our church, and I was five months pregnant and sick...every day!!!  So, I decided to not go camping with my daughter and husband.  And, although it was almost…