The Pratt Family Homeschool: Curriculum 2001+
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Educational Resources
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Themes and
ABC
Activities.
For
2002 to the present, most of our days are unschooling
days by letting my children choose what they want to learn about that
day.
Some
days, I choose a theme I know my children are interested in doing, and
do that. Some days, I just look on the web or at a book and then
they want to do that topic. They learn lots more when they are
not forced to learn about a subject they have no interest in.
A friend and I had a small learning group
on Tuesday and Thursday.
Our children were 4/5 years old. It was from September
2001-April 2002.
* Are my weeks.
2001 Curriculum
September
October
November
December
Letter: F*; D; A* Letter: S;
C*; L; B*; P
Letter: E*; O; T*; J
Letter: G*; H
2002 Curriculum
January
February
Letter: R*; I; K*; Y Letter: M*; V; W
(President's Day)*
April
Letter: U and X; N*; Q; Z (Thursday only. We did went on an Indoor Zoo
Adventure, ate zucchini muffins, and made a "Zucchini Craft", and
some other projects for our book.) *
May
Sunflower
Craft @ DLTK-Kids
We started doing the calendar (flowers) every day (since about the
10th). We count, say the days of the week, and month in English
and Spanish.
Rainbow
Fish Craft
NOTE: A lot of the below 2002 themes, we didn't do.
July
Flag Craft
September
Apples: Ten Apples Up On Top, Large tree with "op" Words; Leaves, How
Many Leaves? Counting Activity (from Bry-Back)
October
Columbus Day: Boat,Water,
European Animals; All About Me:
Bones/Body/Foods (Eating Healthy Foods)
November
Food Theme/Harvest:
Vegetables, Stone Soup, Vegetable Stampings; Turkey; Thanksgiving:
Pilgrims/Native
Americans
December
Christmas
2003 Curriculum
January
Polar Bear; Penguins
February
Groundhog's
Day; Valentine's Day
March
Green & St.
Patrick's
Day
April
Ladybug; Visit to the Zoo.; Read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue
Fish by Dr. Seuss.
May
6 Colors: painting and mixing
7 Rainbows/Colors: painting, Toast, Mixing colors
12 Letter making with plastic letters.
21 Geography Club: Thailand; 22 Worm Books
30 Music: Violins; Emergency Vehicles outside of house
Flowers
Birds/Nest
June
5 Butterflies
9 Taught Spanish Class: Geography- Where Spain is located,
numbers 1-10; Elizabeth read Monkey and Mouse books; and Science: Match
the animal tracks.
10 Elizabeth's Ideas: Music & Art: Made a tambourine; and
Dramatic Play: The Three Bears
11 Craft: Elizabeth's Idea: Made a T.V. remote. Moon Theme:
Watched Wallace & Gromit. (Elizabeth's Idea); Read "The Berenstain
Bears Go to the Moon". Language Arts: Pointed out the rhyming.
words. Math: Sorted pom-poms into color piles. My Children
Idea: Made towers using ABC blocks & colored blocks
12 Science: Listened to a turkey, saw turkeys, Art: Made a
turkey. Math: Counted pom-poms in English & Spanish. Music:
Elizabeth's Idea: Played the cymbals (lids) Science Experiment: Goop;
Elizabeth's Idea: Spelling Practice: Choose words from books & the
wall and wrote them. (Some words she already knew & some she needed
to look to see how to spell them.)
13 Writing Practice; Math: Shapes: Find shapes in the house; Music:
Listened to different composers; played music games; Elizabeth's Idea:
Art: Sagwa writing (Chinese)
23 Listened to KBAQ all day long. FARMS:Read "Spots Feathers and Curly
Tails". Sang Old MacDonald. Played Noah's Ark & said
words in English & Spanish
24 Pretend Play (Elizabeth's Idea): T.V., Primary talks, prayer, fort,
... Made a CyberCase cube; "at" Writing Practice: "at" sentences
25 Practice # Writing/Counting
26 Mr. Rogers: Mushroom Factory (Mine) Music
27 Elizabeth's Ideas: Jay Jay the Jet Plane: Dinosaurs Movie "The Land
Before Time", coloring a dinosaur, Online Dinosaur Activities
July
4 Watched fireworks.
18-28 Trip back east to Mormon Church History Sites.
August
11 Taught Spanish Class; ME: My Body Can Do Many Things (all body
parts); Hinges Song
September
1 Labor Day: Jobs; What is My Job?
9 Taught Spanish Class
29 Fall Leaves Fall!, My leaf song; Leaf hunt; Fall collage; Decorated
Leaf Cookies
October
6 Me; Bones; Body; Home; Elephant Trunk Craft; Birthday; Dinosaurs
13 Where the Wild Things Are at Coop; Columbus Day; Families
20 Fire Safety (We are going to a museum on Saturday, the 25th.)
November
Pumpkins; Turkeys; Thanksgiving & Native
Americans
December
Stars; Christmas
2004 Curriculum
January
Polar Theme; 22- Chinese
New Year Panda Bear; Penguins
February
Valentine's
Day
May
Mother's Day
2004+
NOTE: We are basically unschooling and pick books, themes, etc.
when we would like to do them. We usually do themes based
around the events on the calendar.