Fifi's 1st Grade Curriculum- Science

It took me a few weeks (okay more then a month) to realize I had never made a Science curriculum for Fifi. I was so convinced I was done LOL. I have everything printed out, binders created, supplies bought... And then the realization came crashing down around me.

So, after questioning my little girl about what she would like to learn... I gave her a choice of animals, natures (trees and flowers), or Earth (a mini version of Earth Science). She chose animals, so here is what I put together today. (Hehe, I did put together an entire curriculum and all 38 lesson plans together today... and Im braggin')

Monday- introduce the animal and read the bio provided by the worksheet from http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ The worksheets will be put in her Science binder. I did also find Continental Animal booklets on the site, that encourage her to write a sentence about each animal found on a specific continent.
Tuesday- talk about the habitat the animal comes from, what it eats, how it breeds, where in the world we would be able to find it... We will also come up with 5 vocabulary words about that animal.
Wednesday- we will draw a picture of where the animal lives noting its main foods and surroundings. This will also be placed in her binder.
Thursday- we will write the 5 vocabulary words and define them on paper. I made vocab worksheets that are printable with 5 blank spaces for the words and 5 lines for the definitions. This way they can be put in her Science binder.
Fridays- we will do a coloring page about the animal and read a story about each animal from the library. I have a rough list of the stories and not all are non fiction.

1) Lions
2) Zebras
3) Ostriches
4) Rhinoceros
5) African Elephants and Asian Elephants
6) Giraffes
7) Chimpanzees
8) Cheetahs
9) Gorillas (and finish the Africa booklet from EL which I am counting as a test grade)
10) Parrots
11) Penguins (both African and South American)
12) Llamas and Alpacas
13) Camels
14) Beavers and Capybaras
15) Pandas
16) Snow leopards
17) Tigers
18) Yaks
19) Storks
20) Sun bears
21) Monkeys (specifically Asian monkeys ending the Asian booklet as a test)
22) Crocodiles and Alligators
23) Flamingos
24) Frogs and Toads
25) Owls
26) Kangaroos
27) Armadillos
28) Buffalo and Bison
29) Chinchillas
30) Squirrels, Chipmunks, and Picas
31) Pigs, Hogs, and Javelinas
32) Rabbits and Hares
33) Manatees
34) Sea Lions
35) Caribou
36) Horses
37) Bears (finishing the North American booklet graded as a test)
38) Finishing the Australian booklet as a test grade

Arts and Crafts Curriculum Grades 1 and 4

I cant recommend the Mailbox Magazine enough. Its very expensive so I borrow them from my library. I just picked up The Best of The Mailbox Magazines Arts and Crafts for K-6 at our library this week and I am soo excited.

Here is our new 36 week curriculum for the 09-10 school year. I will be doing these projects on Tuesdays with both Coco and Fifi (ages 9 and 5).

1) Name Design Posters- On one 8 x 11 sheet of white art paper have your child color the background completely with crayons or pastels. Rather then drawing a picture, have them just fill the entire page in with a design. On a separate 8 x 11 sheet of white art paper, have them write their names in bubble letters and trace a border around the edges of the entire name. Color the letters in with any design... Cut out the name around the border and glue the name onto the first sheet of paper. Let dry and hang above their desk area.

2) Patchwork Elephants- On an 8 x 11 sheet of poster board (I buy the big sheets and cut them at home, its more economical) create a 16 piece grid. (4 x 4 boxes) with a ruler. Have your child color in each box with a different design. Cut according to the picture above. Use the bottom rectangle to make an ear flap and tail. Use a marker to add an eye and tie some yarn around the elephants trunk.

We laminated ours so the kids could then put post it notes for things to remember...

3) Grandparents Day Magnets- September 9th is Grandparents Day and one of the things we love to do for my grandmother is make her updated picture magnets. This is a very simple project. We buy a sheet of magnet paper at the office supply store. Then we print them with wallet sized pictures. Once printed we make Popsicle stick frames around the edges of the pictures that we have decorated and dried before gluing on.

4) Split Personalities- This is one of the harder art classes but it does help build drawing skills and self esteem (well at least Coco's lol) We start by going through one of my magazines for a picture showing a full sized face. We then cut the face down the center and glue one half of the face onto an 8 x 11 sheet of white art paper. Then with markers we attempt to draw the other half of the face. We have also tried this with pictures of ourselves that we printed on plain computer paper (photo paper is expensive) and draw the other halves of ourselves.

5) Apple Prints- This is an oldie but a goodie. We go on a field trip to the orchard every September. When we get home we set aside our apples for different projects.. pies, sauces, dried chips... and art.

With our art apples we simply slice them in half. Then on a 8 x 11 sheet of white art paper we stamp the apple pieces onto the paper. I have found through trial and error that for less mess we use colored stamp pads vs paint. Make sure you cut your apples horizontally not vertically, it makes a prettier pattern.

6) Personalized Spirals- Starting with any color of regular construction paper, cut a 8 inch in diameter circle. Then take the circle and with a marker, start at the center and draw a spiral outwards. Don't make too tight of a spiral. Cut along the marker line making a spiral. Then have your child use extra pieces of construction paper to make "ornaments" we even use magazine clippings of things that they love or that represent them. Glue the extra pieces onto the spiral to make a mobile of sorts. Hang them by the very center of the beginning circle in your classroom.

7) Stuffed Owls-

8) Corn Mosaics -This is one of my favorites!! We buy big bags of popcorn kernels at the grocery store. Then we bring them home and put them in piles (handfuls... 8 of them)on cardboard in our driveway. Then I (the adult) spray paint them bright colors (or fall colors this year lol). I leave them on the cardboard to dry, be sure to move them around to prevent them from painting them to the board. One year we used those 99 cent hair colors that they have at Halloween to color them too!

When they are dry, put each color in a separate cup of a muffin tin. Give your child an 8 x 11 sheet of posterboard that they have drawn a shape on (we have done turkeys, flowers, rainbows, butterflies...) and have them glue the kernels to the paper in a mosaic pattern. Lola likes to color her pattern first and then fill each space with the coordinating color and, I have found that works well for my younger child too.

9) Ghosts in Flight- Start with black construction paper and use chalk to draw a creepy scene (omitting ghosts but leave room for some) When the picture is drawn, take the paper and spray it with aerosol hairspray (this prevents the chalk from rubbing off) When dry, gently pull cotton balls into ghost shapes. Glue the balls to the scene. We have also gone so far as to glue google eyes to our ghost.

10) Traditional Jack O' Lanterns....

11) Leafy Lanterns- Place bright colorful leaves on a 9 x 12 sheet of wax paper (wax side up) . Cover the leaves with second sheet of wax paper (wax side down) Using a press cloth, carefully iron (at a low setting) the outer surface of the wax paper until leaves are in place with melted wax. Fold in half two 2 x 12 strips of fall colored construction paper. Place top and bottom borders inside fold of paper (like a frame on either side) Glue into place. Rolls wax paper into a cylinder, form by overlapping unedged sides and staple (or glue) together. For a finishing touch add a 1 x 8 strip of same colored paper to top of lantern as a handle.

12) Rolled Paper Mosaics (Turkey Style)- Start with a standard white piece of art paper (even computer paper) Draw an outline for a turkey. (I got mine from www.enchantedlearning.com) Take multiple fall colors of construction paper and make 1/2 inch by 8 inch strips. Take each strip and coil it to make a "tile". Fill your handy muffin tin with tiles. (I do all of this before we even start the project (HEHE Monday nights is Medium night which is when i set up alot of our art projects)

When ready to start, give your child the turkey out line and the "tiles" Sometimes it helps to shade in the turkey with the colors of the tiles you would be putting, but otherwise, just glue the tiles, coiled, edge down, spiral showing on the paper, filling in the turkey.

Don't forget one black coil for the turkeys eye...

13) Color Through Thanksgiving Place Cards- I use card stock for these and we have used these more then on occasion in a row.

Using place card sized card stock (folded over to stand up better later) have your child press hard with crayons while coloring with brightly colored crayons. Be sure the entire surface is colored. Then have them color over the entire surface with a black crayon. Again be sure the entire surface is covered. Then, using bamboo sticks or toothpicks, have your child write the name of the person whose place setting they are creating in the black. The name will show up in the first colors with a black foreground...

14) Toy Soldiers- this is a premade project we buy at the local craft store every year. We buy a different wooden toy solider kit and paint them...

15) Handprint Wreaths- Using a 12 x 12 square piece of posterboard and green and red tempera paint we get ready to be messy! Starting with green, we dip our hands in the paint and press them on the paper repeatedly making a circle of green hands. On occasion we have sprinkled it with glitter... then we wait for them the green to dry completely.

Then we get the red paint and make a two handprint bow shape at the bottom of the wreath. We sprinkle it again with glitter... Wait for this to dry completely.

Then we take cameo sized pictures of the children, the parents, the family, the pets (1 inch pictures from old photos work best) and we glue them on as ornaments. Last year we finished it off with some glitter paint (or the glitter glue) and outlined the photos.

16) Bill of Rights Wind Sock- Bill of Rights Day is December 15th. We will be celebrating this by making this wind sock...

Materials:

five 1 1/2 inch by 15 inch strips of white tissue paper glue

five 1 1/2 inch by 15 inch strips of red tissue paper string

one 6 inch by 18 inch blue strip of construction paper gold star stickers

one 4 inch by 18 inch white strip of construction paper a hole puncher

a black fine tipped marker

Start by writing an amendment on each strip of tissue paper. Then write Bill of Rights in bold letters across the white construction paper. Glue the white strip to the blue strip. (so that blue edges show on the top and bottom of the white) Turn blue strip over so that the white side is down. Alternately lay the amendment tissues on the bottom edge of the blue paper. Glue the strips in place (so they hang from the blue paper) Glue together sides of the blue paper (white side out) to make a cylinder. Decorate cylinder with stickers. Punch holes in either side of the top of the blue to run string through so you can hang your wind sock.

17) Post Christmas/Yule Thank You Cards- There are two ways to do this... showing my analness.. I save the wrapping paper from each gift my children receive and we then use a piece of it to make a "Christmas ball" for each card (the paper matches whomever gave that gift wrapped with it) Or... you can just have them make little drawings per card.

We like to use card stock and for the younger children I prewrite the message, for the older children they have to write their own. Then we decorate the cards with either the paper or little sparkly pictures...

18) Snowflake Mobiles- My Coco thinks its fabulous to cover every single window in the house with those white paper snowflake cut outs that she produces by the millions... I am less excited about not seeing out my windows for 4 months a year. So we compromised. We make snowflake mobiles.

Using 8 or so pieces of white art paper (or even computer paper) make traditional snowflakes (the way we did when we were children LOL) Then using a 2inch by 12 inch piece of blue construction paper, glue the ends together making the top of your mobile. Using yarn, attach each flake to the top at varying lengths.

19) Peanut butter Pinecone Birdfeeders- I remember making these as a girl scout when I was 8 years old and we have made them every year Ive had children.

Take a large pinecone from your backyard. Attach a string of yarn to the top of the pinecone so you can hang it from a tree when you are done. Cover your cone in peanut butter (or applebutter) and then roll it in a paper plate full of birdseed. Place the cones in the bushes and trees around your house and watch the birds come flying in...

20) Penguin Art-

21) Valentine Abstract Art- Give your child a 12 x 18 piece of art paper. Have them use a pencil to lightly draw several large heart shapes. (The bigger the better) Then have them draw three intersecting lines through the entire paper, make sure the lines go from one edge of the paper to the other. (hopefully intersecting the hearts lol) The using the muffin tin, give you child three colors and black and white paint and have then color in the lines not letting two colors touch if possible. After the paint dries, have your child color over the pencil lines with a black marker.

22) Sandpaper Prints- A uniquely tactile experience...

To begin have your child use crayons to draw a picture on a sheet (4 x 6) of course sandpaper. Make sure they press hard on the sheet and color thoroughly. Place the sandpaper picture face down on a 4 x 6 piece of card stock. Using newspaper on your ironing board, press the papers together carefully with your iron, transferring your art onto the card stock. For display, mount both the sandpaper art and the card stock paper on a single piece of colored paper with glue.

23) American Eagle Art- In celebration of Presidents Day, we will be making eagles.

Start by covering a 12 x 18 piece of cardboard with aluminium foil. Cut an American eagle shape out on brown construction paper. Cover the eagle with balled up pieces of colored tissue paper (trying to keep it looking like an eagle... beak, white collar...) When dry, glue the eagle to the foil covered cardboard. To complete the effect, add gold foil stars around the eagle and strips of red, white and blue ribbon around the edges (like a frame)

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25) Rainbow Art- Celebrate the coming of Spring! Start with a piece of poster board cut to look like a rainbow complete with clouds at the ends. With a marker, mark the lines for the colors and clouds.

Give your child the muffin tin with ripped pieces of colored tissue paper. (red, orange, yellow, green blue, purple...) and glue. Have then glue the pieces of tissue paper to the poster board making a rainbow. When the rainbow is complete, glue on cotton balls to the cloud part of the design.

26) Sponge Grass- This doubles as an art project and a science project and we do these all year long! Start with a sponge, cut a shape out of the sponge and place in shallow dish. Cover sponge with grass seed and pour a little water into the dish. Keep the seeds moist and before you know it, you will see green cropping up all over your sponge.

27) Kite Making

28) Magazine Butterflies- A recyclers dream project. Using torn out pages of magazines, cut each page (3 pages) into a butterfly shape. Placed together, fold them according style horizontally. Unfold them and place a black or green pipecleaner around the center of the pages, twisting them together and leaving the ends for antennas. Carefully pull the pages apart, giving your butterfly a three dimensional effect.

We have even made a few at a time to make a mobile of them for our adopted grandmother to hang in her room at the assisted living center.

29) Rainbow puzzles- A good friend of mine gave us make your own puzzle boards. We use the for everything from math aids to art projects. Coco's favorite puzzle was when she made a beautiful springtime rainbow scene. Now on rainy days, she can put together a puzzle of a beautiful day.

30) Sticker Art- We have done this a few ways. One is using character stickers and making pictures (by drawing them) around the stickers. The other is using shape stickers and creating pictures from the shapes. A bunch of Dora stickers turn into a jungle picture straight out of her show whereas with the random shapes, we are learning geometry at the same time.

31) Springtime Vases- Begin by cutting a vase shape from construction paper or art paper and decorate. (we have also used leftover fabric) Then take large strings of recycled brown paper bag, making flower stems Glue stems to undecorated side of the vase, then glue vase onto larger piece of white art paper.

To create pussywillows, glue puffed rice cereal to the brown paper stems.

To create forsythia, glue bits of yellow tissue paper to brown paper stems.

It looks best to interchange the stems by creating a vase of both flowers.

32) Tulip Shaped Mother's Day Cards- Start by folding a 6 x 12 piece of card stock in half, making a card. Then cut the card to look like a tulip, careful not to cut the crease. Decorate the cover of the card with things like wallpaper samples, fabric, construction paper, tissue paper...

Cut a strip of green construction paper to make a stem and a leaf. Glue the stem to the leaf and then to the back part of the card.

Write a poem or message inside the card for mom.

33) Frog Plates- To start, fold a paper plate in half. Color one inner half of the plate red, to represent in the inside of the frogs mouth. Then paint the outer surface of the plate, green. Allow to dry. From red construction cut a small piece for the tongue. From some white paper cut circles for eyes, draw black pupils. From green construction paper cut arms and legs for your frog. Glue the arms, legs, eyes and tongue in place.

34) Love Earth-

Materials:

one paper coffee filter

one 9 x 12 sheet of white art paper

one 9 x 12 sheet of black construction paper

yellow, blue, green and purple watercolors

Q-tips

silver and gold stars

Wet a paper coffee filter then place it on white art paper. Use a Qtip to dab on watercolors onto filter. Cover the entire filter with color. Add more (very small amounts) water if the filter becomes too dry. Once colored, allow the filter to dry.

Remove the filter and a beautiful earth shape will remain on the art paper. Cut out the earth shape and glue it into the center of the black paper. Add stars around the earth on the black paper.

35) Beaded Key Chain Kits- we buy these at the craft store and make one for each grandfather, great grandfather and of course dad nearly every year.

36) Macaroni Frames- Make a four sided frame out of popcicle sticks (rectangular if possible) This should be traditional photo sized. With additional sticks beef up the framework, creating a flat surface. Cut a piece of cardboard to fit against the back of the frame. Glue three sides of the cardboard to the frame (leave one open to slide a photo in)

Decorate the flat part of the frame with elbow and other shaped pasta that have been spraypainted in the driveway (and allowed to dry)

We actually spray paint small amounts of macaroni on cardboard and then sprinkle them with glitter before they dry, then we allow them to dry completely before gluing them to the wooden frames. We have used the colored art sticks when making frames to add more color.

Summertime Homeschooling

We have finished the French lessons provided by OHVA. I'm not sure why they thought 12 classes would last Lola all summer... So we created our own.
Before the State of Ohio gets a chance to destroy our pubic libraries, I went up to Stark Main and borrowed all of their learn French and Spanish CD kits, I also borrowed some workbooks, easy picture books and Learn French CDs. This next part may not be legal so cover your eyes.... we burnt the CDs into Coco's computer... I created photocopies of specific pages and I also created worksheets of my own and quizzes for Fifi and Coco. Okay... uncover your eyes...
I have hopes that OHVA's nonsummer language classes are more then 12 classes and a bit more advanced. Lola truly finished the entire seasons lessons in 10 days.
For the rest of the summer all three girls will be listening to a language lesson per day and completing a worksheet. Then at night, when we are reading, the girls read one French storybook together. They may not understand all of it but they are understanding more and more words each time they read them. I bought new story books at the Children's Museum of Maine when we were there on vacation last week.

I have also decided that each day, each girl with make a journal entry. At first we were doing it to work on compiling our thoughts on a page. I give them simple topics and they have to elaborate. Such as "My Favorite Part of Yesterday was..." and they can just finish the sentence or write and entire page. As we have been writing more and more, we have started to work with spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure... I didn't want to start with correcting those for a specific reason. I wanted the girls to feel free to write whatever they were thinking. Now, in Week 3, we are correcting Week 1's journal entries. Because it is summer and I still feel a little guilty for making them "do school" in the summer, I am not making them rewrite the entire journal entry. I am letting them proofread with a RED PEN and find their own mistakes as well as make their own corrections. I have found, they are more willing to add onto their entries, as well as more then capable of finding their own mistakes. (Its all in the magic pen, I swear)

Lastly, we are keeping up with our math workbooks, have dropped our Science unit, went on a wonderful vacation, and are spending alot of our time just playing outside.
I firmly believe we loose what we don't use.. so we do simple math everyday. This helps keep the girls up on their math facts. Not all math has to be in a math book either... Uncle Steven had a birthday and Coco's math for the day was this... If you are 9 years old, I am 6 times older than you, minus 2... how old am I? We spent the next two hours figuring our how old all 37 members of our family at the reunion were. We used our 9's table mostly (hey shes 9 lol) but we worked out a few tricky problems and even some division.

I should post soon with vacation pics and the girls highlights of their trip.

Summertime French Class

I was pretty sure we would be taking the summer off for vacations and whatnot. Apparently, my little overachiever wasn't happy with that.
Lola signed up for a summer course with OHVA, and will be taking French this summer. She started yesterday and requested I get her some workbooks to go along with the course. She also went online and looked for some online computer classes and is taking Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point both online and at the local library this summer.
Coco wants to take French too, so I guess I will be looking into some workbooks, tapes or books for her.
Any suggestions?

My Book Addiction

I suppose the first step is admitting I have a problem.
Hello my name is Dani and I love books. I love the way they feel, the way they smell, escaping into them...
Homeschooling my children gives me the opportunity to play with tons and tons of books. Text books, chapter books, workbooks, educational books... It makes me giddy!
Not to mention, I read at least one of my books a day. My addiction causes me to shop for school books well after we are done with our curriculum. I have them waiting in my amazon cart, right there on the other tab... $40 in books, on sale, saving me hundreds, right? Okay, so we don't actually need them. We have what we need and the weekly lesson plans are already written out so we may not ever get to using those books... but they are saving me money right, on sale?... Unless common sense dawns and I realize they aren't saving me money when I buy them but don't need them... And heck the money I don't spend on books I don't need, I can always use to buy more vampire romance books!

Fifi's 1st Grade Curriculum- Social Studies

I wasn't sure if I would have her work with Social Studies or Science this year, as or main focuses are reading and math but I found these wonderful workbooks (by Scholastic of course LOL) and I decided that we could do a few (2 or 3) classes a week of Social Studies.
I was also able to get some great worksheets and lessons off of www.enchantedlearning.com to complete the 38 week year.

We will be using Scholastic Maps Workbook (SMW), Teacher Time Savers Workbooks for the Seasons (it has workbook pages for the different holidays and dates of notice through our the year) (TTS), and Our Pagan Family (OPF) workbook for the Pagan holidays and sabbats throughout the year. I did find some pages I can use in the Comprehensive Curriculum too.

1) Maps- SMW
2) Maps- SMW and enchanted learning (EL)
3) Maps- SMW
4) Maps- SMW and EL
5) Maps and Mabon- SMW and OPF
6) Maps- SMW and EL
7) Christopher Columbus- EL and Little Explorers Great Big Book of EXPLORERS
8) Maps- SMW
9) Maps- SMW and EL
10) Unit Review and Samhain- CC, SMW, EL and OPF (for Samhain)
11) Voting- EL
12)Newspapers- EL and CC
13) Thanksgiving- TTS, EL and CC
14) Newspapers- EL and CC
15) Calendars- EL and CC
16) Christmas and Yule- TTS and OPF
17) Setting Goals- I make
18)Astronauts- (Coco is doing them this week and we have field trip to the space center for everyone planned) EL and Little Explorers
19) MLK- EL
20) Olympics- EL
21) Imbloc- OPF
22) Presidents- EL
23) Presidents- EL
24) Olympics- they are on this week and we will be watching as well as using sheets from EL
25) Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem- EL
26) Lewis and Clark- (Coco is doing them this week and WE LOVE THEM) EL and Little Explorers
27) Ostara- OPF
28) Africa- EL
29) Australia- EL
30) Antarctica- EL
31) Asia- EL
32) Beltane- OPF
33) Mexico- EL
34) South America- EL
35) North America- EL
36) Europe
37) USA
38)Great Sunflower Project- Time to plant our seeds www.greatsunflowerproject.com

Most weeks it will just be a quick chat, a worksheet or two and hopefully incorporating some vocab words into her weekly lessons. We do have some field trips and games planned, as well as videos and art projects in the works.

Fifi's 1st Grade Curriculum- Math

This years Math we will be focusing on Counting by Multiples, Patterns, Money, Time, Fractions, Place Values, Measuring and some Geometry. When breaking her curriculum down into 38 weeks of lesson plans, I realizes we would have to cover two topics a week. This may change depending on her ability to keep up. Being that its May, August is still a long way off...

We are using the Comprehensive Guide to 1st Grade (CC), Scholastic Math Workbook (SMW), Counting by Multiples by the Learning Line (CM), Learning about Money by Learning Line, and a bunch of Adventures in Learning workbooks (Dora's Subtraction, Lion Kings Addition, Belle's Beginning Fractions, Snow White's Shapes...) The Adventure in Learning Books are approximately 12 to 15 pages long and a nice supplement into what I am teaching. I bought the Adventure in Learning Books at The Dollar Store. I buy the Learning Line, Scholastic and CCs on Amazon for very very little. (This year, for all 16 workbooks Fifi will be using in ALL classes was less then $30)

Broken down into 38 weeks, here is our curriculum for 1st Grade Math:
1) Counting by 1's and Money- Counting LL and Money LL
2) Counting by 2's and Money- Counting LL and Money LL and CC
3) Counting by 3s and Money- Counting LL and Money LL and CC
4) Counting Review and Money- Quizzes I make, SMW, Money LL and CC
5) Counting by 5's and Money- Counting LL, SMW, Money LL and CC
6) Counting by 10's and Money - Counting LL, SMW, Money LL and CC
7) Place Values and Money- SMW, CC and Money LL
8) Place Values and Money- SMW, CC and Money LL
9) Units Reviews- CC and tests I make
10)Addition Review and Telling Time- CC
11) Addition with Sums +20 and Time- Addition AL, Time AL, CC
12) Addition with Sums +20 and Time- Addition AL, Time AL, CC
13) Double Digit Addition and Time- Addition AL, Time AL and SMW
14) Subtraction Review and Shapes- Dora Sub AL, Shapes AL and CC
15) Subtraction and Shapes- Sub AL, Shapes AL and CC
16) Subtraction and Shapes- Sub AL and Shapes AL and CC
17) Subtraction and Shapes- Shapes AL and SMW and Scooby Subtraction by Bendon Learning
18)Unit Reviews- CC and tests make (I may use some pages from Scooby as a quiz)
19) Addition and Word Problems- Sheets I make from www.theteacherscorner.net and CC
20) Subtraction and Word Problems- Sheets I make and CC
21) Addition and Word Problems- ALL sheets I make
22) Subtraction and Measuring- Sheets I make and SMW
23) Addition and Measuring- Sheets I make and CC
24) Subtraction and Measuring- Sheets I make and CC
25) Beginning Fractions and Patterns- CC
26) Fractions and Patterns- Belles Fractions AL, SMW and CC
27) Fractions- Fractions AL, SMW and CC
28) Fractions- Fractions AL, SMW, CC and Brighter Learning Fractions Kit
29) Fractions- Fractions AL, SMW, CC and Brighter Learning Fractions Kit
30) Unit Review- I make and will be using pages from SMW and CC as well for testing
31) Addition and Classifying Shapes- Sheets I make and CC
32) Subtraction and Graphs- Sheets I make and the CC
33) Addition and Graphs- Sheets I make and SMW
34) Subtraction and Lines- Sheets I make and the CC
36) Addition and Graphing- Sheets I make and Graphing from www.mathrocks.com
37) Subtraction and Graphing- Sheets I make and Mathrocks
38) Year in review- I make and use CC and SMW pages.

To work with Money we also have a few games we play, "field trips" to Walmart (the girls that work there are SOO willing to help me with teaching). Even playing grocery store at home lets her count money, add money, make change...
We also LOVE LOVE LOVE the Dollar Stores for things like foam shapes, flashcards, and educational posters (we have the fractions, money and telling time ones already). Fifi also loves Connect the Dots, but rather then the traditional 1, 2, 3, 4... we do connect the dots with the 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's tables. I have a website for them but I cant seem to find it right now. We do connect the dots almost everyday.