Hey there homeschool mamas! Welcome to week 11 of our Kindergarten Homeschool! I am so excited to show you what we've done and how it's going every week! If you're curious about our curriculum, my son, or our homeschool room, check out this post!



Well, this was our first week back after an unexpected break. I had talked about Kyle's schedule changing. On September 10, I opened my etsy shop. I was surprisingly pretty busy. With all of the out of whack routine, our Dinosaur unit didn't go very well. We would be busy when Daddy was home, I'd work while the boys rested, then we'd do something else, and before we knew it, we had missed a day of school.  I was stressed out from working on my shop daily and still hadn't yet learned to manage doing it all. Then, Liam got sick last week. He had a stomach bug, so he wasn't feeling too hot for about 3 days. By the time he was better, it was mid week and we didn't really have a choice than to just start fresh the next week. Honestly, I am so glad we did. It allowed me to catch up on my orders, get my house in check, nail down a new schedule/routine to coincide with Kyle's schedule, and just gave us a break. I feel like we were just thrown into September & hadn't had time to catch our breath. Our next break was scheduled for next week, but we will just push through to the next one, since we took it early.


Anyways, onto our Octopus unit! Liam had fun learning about them this week! He loves the movie, Finding Dory. In the movie, there is an octopus named Hank who Dory befriends. There is some facts through out and Liam would recite them. It was great he could put two and two together!

He enjoyed the different activites this week. We learned about the different oceans by looking at our globe and coloring them on a map. He enjoyed our book. We did A House for Hermit Crab book and did this activity with it. We did this one to go with Swimmy.  He really loved making the octopus hand print and using salt for the ocean floor.



Books we read: Swimmy, A House for Hermit Crab, The Octopus, and Octopus

It was a great week back for schooling, that is for sure! We both enjoyed it, I had much more patience, and Liam was eager to learn.



We also took our first official field trip! We went with our homeschool group to the Apple Orchard & Pumpkin Patch. Always a fall activity we enjoy as a family. Kyle was off, so he got to come along. We learned how they pick apples. We were able to pick our own (and they were amazing by the way!). We then got to see how the apples were stored, washed, and sorted. We learned the different types of apples and which seasons they grow in. The kids got to enjoy some apple cider and cookies. We then took a hayride to the pumpkin patch. Once we arrived, we got to pick the pumpkin from the vine! I thought that was so cool! It's something I've never done before. After the tour, they got to climb the hay bale tower, jump on a jumbo jumping pillow, play in the sandbox, and play different games. Very fun & educational! We look forward to many more trips and meeting new friends! =D

Hey there homeschool mamas! Welcome to week 8 of our Kindergarten Homeschool! I am so excited to show you what we've done and how it's going every week! If you're curious about our curriculum, my son, or our homeschool room, check out this post!


This week was a bit blah for our homeschool. Kyle's schedule got completely changed. I knew it might change eventually, but didn't anticipate it changing right when we got back from vacation. I didn't even have time to rearrange anything! Not only did this mess up our homeschool routine, but it also messed up our serving at church, photography sessions I had planned, taking both kids to Liam's therapy, etc. Just no bueno.

So, needless to say we were a bit out of the loop. Our first few days were okay, but by day 4, I was meal planning & Kyle had a meeting. We ended up having to go to 3 different stores (annoying much?) and rush home for dinner and soccer practice. It wasn't until laying Liam in bed, that I remembered, "we forgot to do school!". This was the first time we did this. To make matters worse, on day 5 we made plans out of town. No big deal, they were flexible plans, until we overslept, and yet again, didn't realize we still had school to do. Luckily, we had our two scheduled days off, to catch up!


This week was all about turtles! Green sea turtles are my favorite animals, so I may have gone a bit overboard.

I found another youtube video with our poem this week. Liam was a tad confused why Elsa was with Ariel and not Anna, but he loved the poem and I remember it from when I was younger!

We started out blend ladders this week. Liam liked them okay. He was having a tiny bit of trouble because he kept adding an extra letter onto what we were doing. For example, with "san" he kept adding a "duh" at the end, to make it sand because he is familiar with that word. He did love learning to read "sat" and even copied it onto his chalkboard!

He loved the Tortoise and the Hare story, but loved acting it out even more! He ran a couple of laps in the yard, then I added his daddy's shoes into the equation. He had to try to run with those. He kept saying, "wook, I'm a tortoise, I'm slow! That's funny, but I'm still going to win!"



He also moved like other animals. Not only was this great for his school, but also gave him that sensory input as well. Double win!

For some of the activities in our book, I opted for some others. He did a watercolor of a turtle, as well as a dab worksheet.

He did struggle a bit this week with his Biblical Concept, "I don't quit, I persevere". I can totally understand why, it's a large word. Luckily, I was able to relate to our vacation last week, when we climbed the big mountain. We wanted to quit, but we didn't, we pushed through and persevered. After the third day, he got it, and has weeks 3-8 memorized now! So proud of him!

We read so many books this week! As I said, they are my favorite, so I went kind of crazy. He learned the difference between turtles or tortoises, where they live, what makes them different, the parts of their body, how they hide from predators, etc. Normally we will read one during school each day, but since we picked out so many, we read some during school, and other's during meal time.

Books we read this week were: Turtles and Tortoises, Look Out For Turtles, The Tortoise and the Hare, Katy & the Big Snow, Mr. Putter & Tabby Run the Race, Sea Turtles, Emma's Turtle, and National Geographic's Book on Turtles.  


Everyone's schedules were messed up from vacation, so little brother joined in once or twice!

I am so looking forward to starting fresh next week and nailing down a new routine! We all thrive, for different reasons, on a set routine!