Fill Your Holidays with Teachable Moments

There are so many great learning opportunities and teachable moments during the holidays. We align these experiences and "Mini-Units" with our standard based curriculum. Similar to our year-long curriculum, the holiday curriculum is standard based and aligned with Teaching Strategies Gold Objectives. Each activity focuses on one of the objectives in Teaching Strategies Gold: listening, counting, sequencing, reading, beginning sounds, or sorting.

Lauren KistOctober 19, 2017reading, early reading, teaching reading, halloween, christmas, thanksgiving, activities, hands-on

"Convention-al" Wisdom: Lessons Learned

Before developing the workbooks, we sat down with a teacher from each grade and asked them two questions: 1) What skill-building practice do children need during the summer, and 2) What are some skills that you would like your child to experience before coming into your class?

After listening and learning from our teachers, we created five (5) levels of workbooks: early preschool through second grade.

Lauren KistOctober 9, 2017preschool, workbooks, homeschool, hands-on, year long curriculum, literacy activities, math activities