Hailey's School

To entertain Robert before bedtime, we watch old home videos on the computer. I found this video and melted. I remember starting Hailey School August 2008. I was planning on doing Joy School again with her but this video made me excited to do it.

I will do the second year of Joy School with Hailey at 1:00pm Monday-Thursday starting September 6th. Since I am doing the second year, a kindergarten readiness packet is included. Robert and Hannah will be sleeping during that time so we will have 2 hours for school.

Also my goal is to do Preschool with Robert at 10:00am Monday-Thursday starting September 6th also. Hannah will be taking her morning nap and I'll give Hailey computer time (with a timer) so Robert and I can have our much needed one-on-one time. With him I will work on upper and lower case letters, numbers 1-15, shapes, and colors. For the uppercase letters, I'm using AlphaTales as my guide. Most of my other ideas will come from notimeforflashcards.com

I'm really excited to be my kids' teacher. I love having this project and when I have a house I want a room set aside to be the library/school room. From Costco I got "My Kindergarten Learning Book" from Bright Start Learn & Grow. It has a lot of worksheets with alphabet, math, social studies and more. It also has a CD so I can print out the pages. I hope to go back to Costco and get "What my kindergartner needs to know". The book isn't very child friend and it more of a manual for parents, which is why I think using both books will be a great curriculum.

I also want to go to the dollar store and get a US map and a map of the world. This is why I need a whole room for school. Also, since this will be my third year teaching, I consider myself a home school mom and signed up at Scholastic for Book Orders.

So, if you would like to know how school is going, follow Hailey's School starting September 6th.

FYI: I don't really want to home school my kids when they are school age. Hailey will start kindergarten next year, hopefully in a charter school. I do plan on doing supplement activities and summer school when they start going to regular school.