Our Homeschool Planning for first week of March

It is the first day of March here, and I just finished planning what I would like to do for this month. I know I should have made all the planning in advanced, but I just did not find the time to do so. So now, I guess I will just plan for every week.

We stopped having circle time in our home for quite some time, since I was busy with my projects and not feeling well due to pregnancy last year. My little girl always enjoys the circle time, and I think it is a good activity for our family, so I really need to find time to do so.

The songs I am going to use for this week include:

– Let’s make a circle

– Good morning, dear earth

– Lavender’s Blue

– Sally goes round the sun

– Bangun Pagi (A famous Malay song for kids)

– She’ll be coming round the mountain

and a few Chinese songs too

For the songs I mentioned above, you can find some of them at Lavender’s Blue Homeschool website. There are many songs which are good for kids, and you can listen to the songs on the website too. The founder, Kelly Ehrman, is having a 7 Day Sing More Challenge for free. You can sign up to this challenge and learn how we can bring more songs in our life with our kids. The song She’ll be coming round the mountain is the first song she recommended in the challenge, and you can download it from the email she sends out if you joined the challenge too.

We will also be tossing and passing the bean bags, and also let my eldest son practice his Math during the circle time.

We have set our daily activity for the week, as Monday for cleaning, Tuesday for modeling, Wednesday for painting, Thursday for doing handwork and Friday for baking or cooking. We have not been doing these activities consistently for quite some time too. I am going to bring these activities up again from this month onward.

For painting, I am going to follow a lesson from Earthschooling, which is to paint a yellow butterfly to tell it is the Spring Season. On Thursday, we will sew a turtle with felt, as I am going to tell them a story The Talkative Turtle. We are going to bake some simple cookies together on Friday. I will go and look for a simple recipe, as I am still learning how to bake. We have bought some cookie cutters for Christmas last year, and I am sure my children will be happy to make some gingerbread man shaped cookies.

For my eldest son’s lessons, we are going to have form drawing, Math practice, more reading in both English and Chinese, and more storytelling too. He will also need to continue knitting his project, a washcloth which he has started since last year, but has not been knitting consistently too. I will start teaching my little girl finger knitting, as she always wants to do it.

2 March is World Book Day, and 3 March is Doll’s Day. I am planning to introduce these two days to my children too, and I will need to look for more stories to tell them, and perhaps activities to do as well.

I hope the kids will enjoy the week with the activities and lessons, and they will have lots of fun while free playing too.