12.14.2012

Gingerbread School

We took a week off of school for Thanksgiving and Josie's crazy Nutcracker schedule.  

Then life got crazy, we had Khyla here for a week, and school just did not happen.  We tried one day and it was so miserable I just called it quits in the middle of a reading lesson and we packed it in.

Last Wednesday I did a major, and I mean really major, purge of our school room/play room and then spent an amazing 3 hours at Starbucks doing some lesson and life planning.  After that, I was ready to dive back in.

We had an awesome week.  

We all thrive off of a schedule and Josie was revved up and ready to be on task.  She is really reading well now and kicking her math lessons like a boss.  The only subject she really doesn't enjoy is writing, which hurts my heart!

Our theme this week was Gingerbread Men.  Here's a peek at what we did for theme work.

We kicked it off with our annual Gingerbread House Party.


Gingerbread Man Sight Word Game from Extra Special Learning




Gingerbread Man Play-doh



Gingerbread Man Science (this was SO fun!)



Gingerbread Baby and writing project





Josie is using curriculum for all of her main subjects.  These posts show our extra theme work.

2 comments:

Sarah said...

You always have so many amazing ideas!

I agree...sometimes when school is hard, it's better to pack it up and do something else. :)

The Henrys said...

Such cute ideas! You actually inspired me to have a cookie decorating party for my older daughter's friends, so thank you!