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Homeschooling: Apple Unit Study

We survived our first week of homeschool (which is also the reason why I’ve been a little scarce these past couple of weeks)! Technically I’m only homeschooling Sutton (our 4-year-old), but we’ve scheduled our activities so that we complete three of our six workbox drawers in the afternoon with both Sawyer (our public schooled kindergartener) and Sutton. I always make sure that the first drawer they complete together is Sawyer’s kindergarten homework for the day, and it’s been working out really well so far. Honestly, it’s been so much easier getting him to do his homework now. A couple of weeks ago it was like pulling teeth, but now they both get really excited when it’s “homeschool homework” time!

I’m trying to keep a balance of Montessori inspired activities along with the public school worksheets since that’s what Sutton is used to. We’ve starting off using unit studies to correspond to the season, and this week we did an apple unit. Here’s a quick sample of what we did – along with about a zillion things that I didn’t photograph!

We made homemade applesauce…but we definitely should not have added the small amount of sugar that the recipe called for. It was yummy, but it was way too sweet. The kids called it dessert applesauce!

Name writing and letter practice galore via Sawyer’s school homework.

Making a paper chain to countdown to our pumpkin patch trip.

Using clothespins to select the correct number of apples in the basket (part of a larger unit study pack).

This is our version of an activity from Sutton’s previous school. He rolled the dice and then stamped that number of apples into his grid. When he was finished filling all of the boxes he used letter stamps to stamp his name on the top of the paper.

We completed a 550 piece jigsaw puzzle (with a lot of help from Daddy!).

Learning the parts of an apple and labeling a diagram.

They worked together to complete the continents hemisphere map that Sutton brought home on his last day of preschool. They were so focused on this task, and it was nice to see them work so well together.

All finished! Now we are able to sing the continents song and point to the map each morning!

Ending sound recognition and more letter writing.

We got to spend a lot of time outside enjoying the last bits of sunshine before we got hit by a bunch of rain. I love that we have more flexibility in our schedule now to take advantage of those opportunities!

More apple parts (also from the large unit study pack) – this time he cut out the words and glued them on to the appropriate place.

We ended the week with some apple stamping for a project that we’ll finish up this weekend.

Simon loves having Sutton home to play with him, and he’s much happier that I don’t have to keep interrupting his naps twice a day to go pick up his brothers from school!

It’s only been a week, and I’m sure we’ll face lots of challeges ahead, but it’s been a fantastic experience so far. Sutton is getting some more one-on-one time that he was really craving, and we’re all a little more relaxed now that he’s happy and not crying about school anymore. It’s definitely going to be a crazy year, but I’m excited to see where this adventure will take us!

Signatures Heidi

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