My good friend Jolanthe has launched her awesome Homeschool Planner and today is the last day to get it for $5 off! It is a fully editable PDF file and it rocks!!!
Be sure to get yours today before the price goes up. She is also launching an affiliate program soon so you can help promote and possibly earn some $$ yourself! Your planner might just pay for itself!
Still another note…
THANK YOU to all of you who joined my Members Only section using the special discount! I have sent out all member emails, if you didn’t get yours be sure to check your spam and be sure you are using the email attached to your PayPal account. If you still can’t find it, let me know and I can resend it!
Krash has officially begun Kindergarten so we are just doing portions of our remaining RRSP units. You can read more about his Kindergarten plans here! You can see our new Kindergarten with Krash posts also!
This is the main section of our preschool posts-focusing on what we do for our Raising Rock Stars Preschool Curriculum.I am not sharing photos of each part every week, just what I happen to catch!
Our letter this week ~ Gg, our verse: Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
This face cracks me up, he is always disappointed when the verse is shorter than he is.
He isn’t doing all of the printables anymore but he is still enjoying the PowerPoint lessons!
I am no longer doing specific lesson plans since K is now in transition into Kindergarten {read more here}. You can download blankcopies of the lesson plan on the Cc page here!
Be sure to visit Preschool Cornerto see all of the other amazing home-preschool moms!
Do you have a blog post featuring this unit-RRSP Letter Gg? Link your exact post below, choose a thumbnail showing the program in action for your link!
Exactly 1 year ago today, the very first introduction post for Raising Rock Stars Preschool went up on my blog and the program was launched! It had been in development behind the scenes for many weeks and has finally been completed this month-1 year later! When I started these units, I had NO idea how much time this project would take, or how many families would be blessed by it. The countless emails of thanks and blog posts I have seen make my heart so happy. To know God gave me an idea and the ability to develop it, and share it makes the time all worth it! To see families finding a way to make the Word of God more real for their preschoolers ~ priceless!
I can’t thank YOU enough for your support, encouragement, patience and so much more. So many of you have kept me going this year, encouraging me in so many ways. Forgiving me when the units have errors or aren’t posted in a timely fashion. Supporting me through your memberships, blog posts, and kind emails. The community that is using RRSP has become a big part of my life and I appreciate you all very much!
One of you will win a membership refund!!!!
If you are already a member, or you join before 4/30, leave a comment below and I will let random.org choose someone and I will send you a PayPal refund for your membership fee! You must be a member and leave a comment on this post by 4/30/2011 which is when I will choose the winner!
I have a new PowerPoint show available in the Members Only section, featuring Rhyming Words.
Here is a video showing the show as I was doing it with Krash…
I also made a simple set of flashcards to practice using the same images from the show. These are available for FREE here in my Alphabet printables section.
I must admit, making the Princess Preschool Pack was fun. I am not even planning to use it any time soon, but it was just simply fun. When I found this adorable clipart designed by Stockberry Studio {a BIG favorite of mine} I knew I had to make a theme pack!
The whole modern day princess idea can sometimes get all twisted around in my opinion, but the Biblical aspect of being a princess is something I want my little girl to embrace. I hope many of your little girls love it and learn their value in God’s eyes as you let them explore how awesome it is to be the daughter of a KING!
I went a little nuts with this one and even developed a few new ideas. There are many skills included that would make portions of this pack good for tots, some good for preschoolers, and some for Kindergartners. Just choose the parts your child would enjoy!
I made a few more worksheet type things than normal…mostly because I personally was getting tired of all the cutting and laminating. I wanted to try out the idea of slipping things in sheet protectors and using dry erase crayons/markers. I tried to make most of the worksheets with light gray boxes so you could still cut things out into pieces if your child prefers that.
Don’t have a girl? No Worries! My pal Jolanthe created a Knights & Castles Preschool Pack too! Here is a peek at hers, I will be using it with Krash!!!
I know the little button says “vote for me” but honestly what I really want is to FLOOD Circle of Moms with votes for homeschooling blogs!!! You can vote for anyone you want, let’s just all jump in and VOTE to show support for the homeschooling community online! I wouldn’t be where I am today without this community online, it truly is the lifeline to my sanity as a homeschooler!!!
With over 5000 subscribers to my blog, I KNOW we can pour in the votes! Vote for as many blogs as you like EVERY day from now until May 11, 2011. If you are a homeschool blogger, be sure to add your blog to the list!!! I am voting daily for many of my favorites!
Here is an official definition from Wikipedia. Here is another article about word walls. Basically it is a place to display words a child has learned or is learning. We use ours for high frequency words in Kindergarten, only putting up words as they are learned.
We use a tri-fold foam board {ours was $10 from Target} for our Word Wall, it looks like this…
They are hooked to the board using tiny Velcro dots, which I bought in bulk from here. I used velcro so we can take the words off at any times to play games and review.
After Krash has a good knowledge of the word, we add it to the word wall, and review often. Review is especially important as the list of words grows.
I do not put word family words on this board {cat, mat, rat, sat, etc.}, just his basic sight words that I want him to be able to identify without sounding out, just by sight.
In the past I have had our word wall up on our actual wall, similar to how I did it in the classroom. You can see my post about when I transitioned to portable word walls. I like the idea of it being up on the main wall, but I like the idea of being able to better interact with the words using the portable word wall.
Do you have a word wall in your homeschool classroom? If you have a post showing it, please leave a comment with the link so we can check it out!
I created the first set of add-ons for the Tot School Printables program, for now these will only be available to download within my blog posts. Eventually I may create a separate area for the “extras” but for now you can download the first set here, which includes review flashcards {in color or BW} for letters A-H, as shown below…Ladybug really enjoyed these and had a great time finding the letter I asked her to show me! She is really proud of the letters she knows!!!
Each week we have a focus color, that goes along with our Tot School Printables unit, his week it was orange. I pulled out our orange drawer of stuff for her to explore and she loved it.
Here she was putting her large beads onto a straw {I shoved something into the end to make them stay}.
She got this adorable game for her birthday from a friend and she LOVES it!
We are currently reviewing Twisters & Twister Curves from Guidecraft and this is her favorite thing to do with them…
Pac Man’s birthday was Friday and she was really digging the whole idea of another cake!!!
More Tot School Links…
Tot School 2010/2011 Roll Call {and FAQ Clarification Post} –I have finished updating the Tot School roster, please let me know if you are not on it and you have linked up for at least 3 weeks. You can leave a comment on this post telling me that this is your 3rd {or more} time linking up!
How do I Link up to Tot School? Please be sure to read this BEFORE you link up for the first time!!! If your blog is not linked back here to Tot School {within your post, not just on your sidebar}, and/or your post is not specifically a Tot School post, your link will be deleted to help Tot School surfing moms. If your link was deleted, please email if you don’t know why.
Please put your tot's age (in months) after it, like this: 1+1+1=1 (41 mos)
