Unit #1

       Its been about a year ago now that I decided on a curriculum for Rebecca. Hopefully we will continue with Konos for all of elementary school for all the kids, but we'll have to see how it suits everyone. Last week we began our first unit with Rebecca. (I like picking my own school calender, I don't like the heat of summer so we might as well begin school and take off in the fall when its pleasant.) Anyway, our first unit was centered around the character trait of Orderliness. We studied animal classification using lots of books from the library, activities and games, the stories of the Creation and Noah's ark from the Bible, writing animal words, a couple poems, etc. I use supplemental curricula for math and reading, everything else is included in Konos. If I can make a prediction from the last two weeks....WE LOVE IT! We've been having so much fun and even Levi has been getting in on the action. Here are some pictures of our work and some of our favorite resources!

 Levi is working on sorting, sometimes by color, sometimes by type.

These sorting bowls were a great purchase.

 Our well loved pie, we've had for sometime.

 Cuisnaire rods for our Miquon math program...lots of other uses too.

 These animals we found at hobby lobby. I think we own almost all of Safari ltd.'s animal Toobs.

 Rebecca working on animal classification.

 Mammal, invertebrate, reptile, amphibian, bird, or fish???

 Some books we read....really enjoyed Moira Butterfield's "What am I?" series.

 Cool posters we bought from a teacher on teacherspayteachers.com Talk about a great resource!

We made a poster of our own as well. Rebecca is quite proud of her hard work.