I moved the homemade vine lamp from the babies old room to this corner to light it all up. That way they have a soft light over their work.
All art work get clipped up on this string with tiny clothespins I got from the dollar store. I use them for crafts too. They love to display their artwork. When we change it over, I file their art in a file folder for keepsakes and to show what they have accomplished.
We have the letter of the week that we create and put up in the boys room. I am a bit worried we are going to run out of wall space soon. Geran is always proud to tell daddy what he 'created' today.
Often I find the boys going over to their homeschool shelf. As they get older I will be labeling it math, science, language arts etc. Then I can ask them to choose what math they'd like to do. I've started some creative way to play with letters/words. Playdoe with letter cut outs, magnet letters for fridge or magnet board. Letter puzzle, painting letters, and using pipecleaners or bendy crafts for letter shaping.
I got this shelf off facebook buy and sell. I use old baby wipe containers for math pieces or magnet letters. I have some books and puzzles there now. I change it up monthly so they get a nice surprise going to the homeschool shelf. Nashville really loves putting little letters in and out of containers. He pretends he knows them and says, "A, T, B, P, T" for all the letters he puts in the bucket. hehe Love 19m old's.
This is the list of ideas. When Geran picks yoga we utube kids yoga and he loves to copy it with mommy. This is one of the links we have used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cNjAj_o0SI
This is my latest purchase. From Easy Daysies. I got this at chapters. I show Geran the 'shape of the day' and when a task gets completed, he moves the finished task from the left to the right. This helps reduce any anxiety of what will come ahead. Kids love to have autonomy and be independent. This is a great way to have them be part of decision making. I leave small choices up to Geran, like do you want to do centers today (homeschool self or free play) or numbers? Then he picks. If you want more information on scheduling.. http://www.easydaysies.com/
So far I love my homeschool life. I only wish I had more hours in a day to do all the things we love to do.
Happy Parenting!
Amanda
www.stickyhands.ca
Thanks for sharing this! I love how you organize your day with your little ones. I always like getting ideas for crafts with very little kids and I like what you are doing with the letters. I think I will try to copy some of that with my 3 yr old ;)
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