Our Spanish Weather printables in action!

I finally got everything printed and laminated so we could start using the Spanish Weather Printables I posted last week.

So far, C really enjoys them!  We start off singing the "What's the Weather" song - except we subbed in "Que tiempo Hace Hoy" and it actually works pretty well!  We made a video so you can hear how the song goes.

Spanish Calendar & Weather

Good morning!  Yesterday C asked that I make some weather stuff to go along with our calendar time.  We talk about the weather everyday but I didn't make printables for it because she has a pretty good grasp of weather.

So, I decided to make them in Spanish!  I am hoping she will keep her interest since it is about something she wants to do!

Morning Expectations Printable

In my last post about our daily schedule, I said I would have a Morning Expectations printable for you guys soon. Well, here it is!

It is a very basic printable with just a few jobs. The list I made for Caitlyn has more expectations that are personalized to her: put on glasses, turn on the light for her fish, etc. I have included one printable with the labels written in Spanish, as well as one printable with just the check boxes and numbers that you can fill in.


I recommend either laminating or putting it in a picture frame so the child can check off the jobs with a dry erase marker as they complete them.  Click on the image to download











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Our New Schedule

Today marks the first week day that I am staying home with Caitlyn. Unfortunately, it is also the last three days I have to get ready for Thanksgiving! We are hosting this year and my place needs a LOT of work.

Needless to say, I have been very productive today, but more with house work and less with blog/homeschool stuff. I did come up with a schedule that I hope to follow starting next Monday.

I know that in coming up with my schedule I looked at a lot of other schedules online. So I thought I would post my schedule to give you guys another idea. The times I am posting today will be the times I *HOPE* we will follow. As we dig into our schedule I will come back and edit to show how the times work out in real life. Things always go much smoother in my head!

I tried to incorporate a lot of the Fly Lady's routines into my schedule so that I don't forget to take care of our home while doing homeschool. I really hope that this system works out well for me. I would get very overwhelmed if when the day is done I still have a pile of laundry and a sink full of dishes staring me down! I feel better knowing it is in the schedule!

The Bilingual Homeschool's Daily Schedule


Wake up at 6:45:
*Make bed
*Wake up Caitlyn - have her get started on her morning expectations (post coming soon!)
*Shower & Get Dressed - Follow Fly Lady's plan of cleaning restroom each morning while in there getting ready!
*Spend a few minutes with my husband before he leaves for work
*Start a load of laundry
*Breakfast

8:00 Start school time - Calendar Time
(We will be using 1+1+1's calendar notebook printables, they are GREAT. I will probably add some bilingual printouts to those soon)


- Reading time
We use (and I HIGHLY recommend) The Reading Lesson By Michael Levin I will post a review of the book very soon!
For review we use Hooked on Phonics: Kindergarten

- Action Break We will stop and do something to get our bodies moving and her energy out

- Story Time

9:30
- Snack
- Clean up in kitchen while Caitlyn eats, put laundry in dryer
- Printables and activity time
I plan to try using the work box idea here, we will see how Caitlyn likes it! There will probably be a lot of free play and exploration time here as well. While Caitlyn is doing an activity that she can work on independently, I plan on checking off a couple of the jobs off of my daily to do list!
-Action Break
-Work together to put laundry away

11:30
-Lunch
-Bible time
-Play Time 1:15-3:00
-Nap
Some days Caitlyn seems like she doesn't need a nap, on those days, we still plan to have a rest time from 1:15-3:00. I am working on some nap time busy boxes for her. I Can Teach My Child has some great ideas!

Our school day will end with nap. I will use her nap time to finish up my cleaning list for the day and get blog posts up! If you have any questions please leave a comment! Thank you!

More posts very soon!!

I am so sorry I haven't made any printables in awhile! I have stayed late at work more lately, we have some people out. The days I haven't stayed late, I've spent that time with my family! My last day at my job is November 16th. I plan to post what we do each week after then.

Healthy Food Theme- Fruit Printables.

Starting tomorrow we will have a healthy food theme during our school time! I think we will have a lot of fun with this theme because it will give us an opportunity to do a LOT of C's favorite activity: Eating! She LOVES to eat and is always asking for a snack. I plan to incorporate some simple cooking activities into our school time with this theme. I will post our activities later this week!

I wanted to go ahead and get the fruit printables up for you now that I have finished them! I hope you find the printables useful for your family.  If you have any theme requests or would like to see printables in a different way, please let me know!

Now, on to the goodies!

Fruit Flash Cards- Print 2 copies if your child likes memory games! I suggest printing all flash cards on card stock and laminating them to prolong their use! Click the image to download.

I like to eat fruit easy reader- Spanish Print, cut out each page and staple or punch a hole and tie the pages together with yarn.  Click the image to download.

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Tot School: Farm (Granja) Theme

For now, we do Tot School mostly on the weekends. Since moving to Ohio, my husband is still looking for a job utilizing his degree, so for now, I am working full time during the week. I work at the preschool Caitlyn is attending. It is a wonderful school and I do enjoy working there. However, since we were doing daily school in Texas, she is not really challenged by the material at school. That is why I continue to do Tot School on the weekends. I want her to continue to be challenged and learn. Some days, she will ask to do school work when we get home, on those days we will do school work. Most of the time though, we save school work for the weekends! I want to make sure she is both challenged and has time to rest her mind, just play and relax! This weekend we are working on our Farm theme!

I encourage Caitlyn to use Spanish as often as possible, during school time and just throughout our day.    My husband and I try to use Spanish often as well so that she can hear us speaking Spanish.

We starting out using the Colores Granja printable I posted earlier in the week. She really enjoyed getting to color the pages of the book herself!

We had a visitor during school time today!

Caitlyn said that turtle needed to have school today too! He will show up in several pictures today!

After coloring our Colores Granja printables, we worked with our farm animal flash cards. We pulled out our farm animal counters and matched the animals to the cards.

She was very bothered by the fact there isn't a rooster in our farm animal set. She said, "There isn't a gallo, what do we do now?" I told her we were trying to see which ones matched and they didn't all need a match. She still wasn't very happy about it though.

Next, we sorted our farm animal counters by color and then made patterns. We made color patterns and animal patterns. I encouraged Spanish throughout the activity and she did excellent. She really has patterns down but she enjoys making them. We continue to practice regularly.

When she was finished with the counters, I pulled out her reading lesson book. Some days, she is really excited to get to the next story and we will do a few pages. Other days, she only wants to do one. Today we did one page.

I love and highly recommend our reading lesson! It is The Reading Lesson by Michael Levin. We bought our copy on Amazon. If you are thinking about using this program with your child, I suggest checking your local library first. We were lucky enough to check the book out from the library before buying it. They start off with the most commonly used letters in the English language and add a few letters or letter blends with each lesson. This system is working out excellently for Caitlyn. We also use the You Can Read sight word program from 1plus1plus1.

After her reading lesson, we reviewed her sight words so far.

Then, she created a monster with her Trio Blocks.

We ended our Tot School day with lunch!

Tuna sandwhich on organic bread cut in to a Chick, organic tomatoes, organic squash and organic milk!

Farm Animals/ Animales de Granja

I am excited to share the first of my farm animal printables with you!  I hope to eventually have enough printables for different themes that I can put them together into a pack for you!  In the meantime, I will post the printables as I create them.

We will be having a farm animal theme soon so I made a few bilingual printables to go along with our work.  There are flash cards and a coloring book/easy reader.  Continue reading for links to download!


I made some farm animal flash cards to go along with our theme.  Just like with the transportation theme, I usually make the cards into a game.  Sometimes we will print two and make a match game.  Other times C enjoys hiding them around our homeschool area and finding them as I call out, "Donde esta....?" (Where is...?) It just depends on our mood that day, sometimes we will do both! I have both printables for download at the bottom of the screen.  I recommend laminating all flash card printables for repeated use!


I also made an easy reader for the farm animal theme.  Instead of having the images already colored in, I made it so that the kids can get hands on and color the images themselves.  I suggest reading the sentence for your child and let them choose the correct crayon.  I shaded the color words in the appropriate color to help your child relate the Spanish color word heard with the color on the page.  Encourage the use of Spanish by your tot by speaking it your self.  If they say "red", say "rojo" if they say "rooster" say, "gallo."  Be careful not to say the Spanish word as if their English is wrong but just as if they are the one in the same.  Click the download images below to download!

      

Trouble downloading printables

I was informed that the printable files on google docs are not downloading properly. I have sent in an issue report and hope to hear back soon! In the meantime, I have switched all the links over to scribd.com. Please let me know if you have any issues accessing the files. Thank you!

Transportation Theme Continued!

Welcome to my first linky post!  I am excited to share more ideas for our transportation theme from this week.  In case you missed my last post, I have created some printables for incorporating Spanish into our transportation theme.

The printables from my last post can be downloaded by clicking on the image.

Unfortunately, I do not have photos of us using the printables yet!  I have to get into a habit of photographing our school time.  She was very excited when she saw we were doing a transportation theme and couldn't wait to get started!

Caitlyn loves searching for flash cards as I call out "Donde esta..." and name an item.  She is really into patterning right now so I made some transportation pattern cards.  I encourage Spanish as often as possible as we do our activities.  We start out with a few simple patterns - Rojo, Verde, Rojo, Verde - and progress to harder patterns.  It is hard to come up with a pattern that is a challenge for her anymore but she loves making patterns so we continue to practice! I suggest laminating the pattern cards cutting out blank tables and taping them together to create base for your tot to lay out their patterns. If you would like the pattern card printables, they can be downloaded by clicking on the image.

I hope you find these printables useful for your family!  

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Spanish Transportation Printables

I am very excited to share my first printables with you!  I plan to do a transportation theme in our Bilingual Homeschool for the week of 9/30/12.  I hope you find these printables useful for your family!

  When I do flash cards I usually go over them once or twice with C and then I lay them out on the floor and ask, "Donde esta...." ("Where is....) and name an item.  Usually she has a blast running or jumping to the item called out.  You can also print two sets of the cards and use it as a match game.  Click on the image for a link to download.  Click on an image below for a link to download the Bilingual Transportation Pack.  There are flash cards, an easy reader and pattern cards.