We finished MFW: Adventures in U.S. History and are moving on to MFW: ECC. Excited to start this new adventure in our homeschooling journey. I've been trying to prepare and organize everything before we start in May.
CURRICULUM
I labeled both the teacher manual and the student sheet notebook but using tabs and writing the number of the week it is for. Helps me find the week so much easier this way. I've actually done this same method since we started MFW: God's Creation. It has worked great for me.
Here is a closer look at the inside of the student notebook. I actually divided each week into page protectors and placed tabs for each week with the number on it. This time I decided to use page protectors for each week instead of folders, it's actually a lot cheaper this way. Also in this notebook is the geography game in the back of the notebook.
BOOKS
This year we will be using Language Lesson for Today Grade 3 and Spelling by Sound and Structure 3.
This year we will be concentrating a lot more on writing in cursive, K has shown a lot of interested in wanting to write in cursive.
Bought this math book at Barnes and Noble, Singapore Math 2 A & B for grade 3.
For our bible study we will be using Window on the World and Discoverers Bible that we used last year.
Also include God Speaks Numanggang by David Hazell with our bible studies.
Typed and added a picture to each memory verse of the week. After printing the sheets I laminated them and then cut them out. On the back of each one I added what week we will be using them for. I can't seem to add a link to the ones I did so if you are interested in a copy I can email it to you.
Geography we will be using several books, which we are so excited for. Love learning about new places and how different cultures live.
Several of the Janet and Geoit Benge stories we will be using for our read-aloud.
Use Hero Tales with the worksheets I printed from
Mama Jenn blog page.
Some of the science books we will be using this school year.
I've added Art Treasury with Global Art for our art books and will be listening to different music videos on YouTube that will go with our lessons each week.
Include this Origami Charms book that we had already in our studies.
MAPS
We have a geography wall in our hallway, which I actually lowered this year so it would be eye level for the kids. Above the map will be our Art wall to display the kids masterpieces.
I printed out several different children of the world I found on Pinterest and used some that came in the student sheet to add to our map. The kids love looking at the different styles and seeing where they live.
More children from the world, we might include animals to our map when we get to each country.
Bought this at our local Children's Museum, added it to our Geography wall.
Found this at Dollar Tree
We sent out different letters to about 32 embassies for them to send us some information about them. Checked off the ones we have already received information packets from. Kids get excited when they see the mailman, they look forward to seeing who might of sent us some information.
Keep all our embassy packets on top of one of our carts so we can use them when we get to that particular country.
SCHOOL SUPPLIES
On the bookshelf I have several activities in which the kids can use whenever they like or when I need them to play quietly while working with the other child. Also have some of our paperworks that we will use each week. Next to the shelf is a book basket which is for books K uses for her read aloud that she picked from the library or some books D wants me to read to him.
Here are our carts which stores everything we would need for our school year from art, science, worksheets, paper, and many more materials.
Next to our carts is our bookshelf that is our mini library.
Our other bookshelf has more of our books we use to for our school year and it also contains all our notebooks, Kinetic Sand, sensory supplies, globes on top of the shelf, buckets of different activities or games. Next to our everything bookshelf we have several big bins which contain our rainbow pasta & rainbow rice, sensory bin, and stamps. There are also several boxes of science experiments and our globe.
Made something like a bulletin board above our turtles tank. It has our calendar, memory verse, work for each week and the week after, an outline of what we will be studying each week. Next to the turtles tank is D's school work, he will be starting MFW: God's Creation while joining us in our MFW: ECC studies. Under the tank are a few of our manipulatives, games, and a bucket of superworms which is Larry Boy's (our bearded dragon) food.
In the living room I put up a chalk board which I bought off of Geek app. It comes so you can stick it on the wall but I used thumb tacks to hold it on the wall since we are planning on moving next year I want to able to take it with us when we do move. I found this really pretty boarder at our local school supply store "School Tools". Goes great with what we will be learning this school year. Also have a punching bag and punching ball for the kids to take out some energy or anger they may have. D sure does love it, he says it helps him with his ninja moves.
Our living room is a multiply purpose room, it's the kids play room, living room, school room, and entertainment room. Love the indoor trampoline gets a lot of the kids energy out.
Bought this silicone continent mold on Amazon for our continent cake. We will be using this mold through out our studies. Planning on using for when we reach a certain continent to make ice cubes, candy, or chocolate.
PETS
Here are a few of our other family members.
Looking forward to our new school adventure and learning a lot more about that many different cultures out there. I'll be adding a link below of each week once completed.
GOD BLESS!
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