Off To A Great Start

June is almost halfway over. I am afraid if I blink, summer will be gone and it will be time for 1st grade. We have been keeping busy while still experiencing the long, slow, relaxing days of summer.



Each morning, we begin the day with a little bit of brain work, calendar time, poem/rhyme memorization, and reading. Fun In First's blog shared a cute summer activity calendar with daily skills review for each weekday until school starts back up in August. Boogs likes to work on it. There have been mornings when I have walked into his room and he has already begun that day's work.

Boogs is an early riser. He usually wakes up between 5:45 a.m. and 6:15 a.m. So, sometimes we take advantage of our early mornings to go on sunrise walks.

Boogs is really enjoying swim team practices and meets.

We have been working on a few science experiments - growing crystals, rocket blast, goop, volcano.

 We have also had time to enjoy playdates with friends at area parks and pools. I think we are going to have a backyard campout soon. Boogs has been sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor of his room this week. Maybe that is a really BIG hint for me that Boogs is ready to go camping.

Our Calendar

Boogs and I have been doing a morning calendar since early 2009. On Pinterest, someone pinned a teacher's website that has free printables. The website is doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com  I printed out these cute Thanksgiving calendar numbers. Boogs likes them a lot. Before November began, we played with the cards for a while. I had Boogs put the number cards in order, sort them by color, sort odd/even, skip count by 2s. There are so many things to do with them besides just putting them on the daily calendar. Here is a picture of the calendar in Boogs' room. Each morning we sing our calendar song, put up the day's date, and read our poem of the week. I call out words in the poem for Boogs to find and point to. I found the Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme Cards at Half Price Books a few years ago. I don't remember where I found our calendar song. It is sung to the tune of "Oh My Darling, Clementine".

There are seven days, there are seven days, there are seven days in a week.
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
Today is Tuesday, today is Tuesday, November 15th, 2011.
Today is Tuesday, today is Tuesday, November 15th, 2011.