I love Etsy!
All those wonderful ideals. Today I was searching for recipe card inspirations for my own sad collection and was totally blown away by some of the ideals that were presented.
Here are just some of them that I totally adored.
Letterpress Recipe Cards and Recipe Box
Custom Recipe Boxes and Recipe Card Tabs.
Recipe Cards, Gift Tags, Mini Folder - FOOD - pdf template
Customized Recipe Cards in Bright Colors
RECIPE FOR FUN 12x12 Premade Scrapbook Pages
Deliciously Sherbet & Citrus - retro style - RECIPE BOX with Cards and Dividers
Cute Recipe Card Set-4x6

Science for 1st grade

These experiments are perfect for K12 activites.
They can be used with Math when learning time and History.
Science for light/Dark experiements.

clipped from www.exploratorium.edu Making a Sun Clock - Before there were clocks, people used shadows to tell time! Pictures From Light - With a lens, you can bend light to make pictures of the world. Seeing the Light Pringles® Pinhole - Recycle a potato chip can into a simple camera.

Word of the day game

Different games daily to help your word knowledge grow.
Various ages, why not include the kids even if it's too hard for them. They will learn as you do.

clipped from www.merriam-webster.com Today's Game

NY Times Learning Network: Daily Lesson Plans

Make sure to check the Grade level before proceeding.
They also offer an archive of older lesson plans, word of the day, on the day in history and more.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Daily Lesson Plan

Phoenix's Homeschool learning Standards
She will learn the following this year.

Social Studies

* Holidays, traditions, and customs
* Our American Heritage
* Different cultures at different times
* Family, school, neighborhood, community
* Farm and zoo
* Neighborhood helpers
* Jobs and careers
* Social skills and responsibilities
* Basic geography terms
* Making and reading a simple neighborhood map

Science

* Grouping and classification
* Living and nonliving things
* Animals
* Pets
* Farm animals
* Zoo and circus animals
* Woodland animals
* Common birds
* Plant and animal habitats
* Seeds, bulbs, plants, flowers
* Weather and seasons
* Day and night
* Solids, liquids, gases
* Air and water
* Magnets
* Fire and temperature
* Sun, moon, stars, planets
* Simple machines
* Beginning experimentation
* Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts

* Reading
- Phonetic analysis
- Structural analysis
- Establishing sight vocabulary
* Reading informally: names, labels, signs
* Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
* Creating stories and poems
* Telling favorite stories
* Organizing ideas and impressions
* Enunciation and pronunciation
* Presenting information orally, in sequence and with clarity
* Book reports and critiques
* Discussion skills: taking part in group discussion
* Beginning dictionary skills: alphabetizing
* Beginning spelling
* Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
* Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
* Manuscript handwriting
* Handling books
* Using table of contents
* Development of a class newspaper

Health and Safety

* Personal hygiene
* Dental health
* Good eating habits
* Exercise and rest
* Diseases
* Common cold
* Dressing for weather and activity
* Safety rules to and from school

Mathematics

* Counting and writing to 100
* Counting by 2's to 40
* Simple number patterns
* Beginning ordinal numbers
* Using 10 as a basic unit
* Simple properties of zero
* Simple properties of sets
* Beginning addition and subtraction facts
* Number-line use
* Place value and numeration
* Concepts of quantity and size
* Concepts of equality and inequality
* Concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbers
* Using 1/2 and 1/4 appropriately
* Estimation
* Geometric patterns and figures
* Basic customary and metric measurement
* Recognizing time: clock and calendar
* Value of penny, nickel, dime, quarter
* Solving simple word problems
* Basic probability and chance
* Basic chart and graph concepts

We will be reading one chapter per night before bed of the wonderful tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
It should take us 12 days to finish off the whole book.
I can't wait to get started.
The girls love the movie hopefully I can get their imagination working to see what I see when I read it.

In Kansas you must school at least 186 days of not less than 6 hours per day, or 1116 hours per year for grades 1-11.
Courses must be taught by competent instructors, and they must hold classes for a period of time which is substantially equivalent to the time public schools are in session.
We have filled out the registration form and registered showing the name and address of the school and the name and address of the official custodian of the school's records.

NOTE TO SELF-MUST REMEMBER TO BUY TIMER

Home school Online Resources come from the following places
Hillbilly Housewife
Brightly Beaming Resources

Texts that we will use

Bible Study-Easy-To-Read Bible story books
from the library. 1 per week.
Online resources
Word of Love for you
325 lessons from the bible

Arithmetic/Science-
Online math resources
Math is fun
K-12 math curriculum

One Science project per week with charting folder.
Centre for Innovation in Mathematics
Teaching, Mathematics
Enhancement Programme, Primary
Year 1
The History of Insects
The Insect Folk
The Burgess Animal Book for
Children
Burgess Bird Book for Children

Language Arts-
Cyber Fieldtrips
ClickN Read
Word Mastery, p 1-25
McGuffey's Eclectic Primer
Purchased workbook on Handwriting
for Beginners - HWT Handwriting without tears
A Primary Reader by E. Louise
Smith

Literature-
Lang's Fairy Books
The Real Mother Goose
Easy-To-Read Books as desired

Biography/Historical Novels-
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Katherine Chandler

History-Easy-To-Read Library Books of your choice on family history, local history & world history. 1 or 2 books per week.

Social Studies-Easy-To-Read Library Books of your choice on neighborhoods, maps, foreign countries, immigration and our government. 1 or 2 books per week.

We will also be using the following materials.

ZOOM SCHOOL - EnchantedLearning.com

LeapPad Products
Flashcards
A full size Chalk board
Indv. size chalk boards
Computer
The Internet
Wipe off cards/books
Learning Mathematical concepts at home
God's Little Princess Devotional Bible by Sheila Walsh
Various Learning materials
Books of all shape and size- list to come soon.


Links-

King James Bible

Bible Study

• Easy-to-read bible story books from the library. Figure on 1 a week.

Devotions

• Keys for Kids or Kids 4 Truth Devotionals or other devotions of your choice

Arithmetic. Choose 1.

• CIMT, MEP, Primary Year 1
  

• Ray's Arithmetic, purchased separately
  
• Math program of your choice, purchased separately

Science

• The History of Insects
  

• The Insect Folk
  
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children
  
• Burgess Bird Book for Children

Library Skills

• Go to the library once a week, learn how it all works. If you go on Fridays then you can check out the books you'll need for the following week.

Language Arts

• Purchased workbook on Handwriting for Beginners, widely available at Walmart, K-Mart, Warehouse Stores, etc.
  

• Word Mastery: A Course in Phonics for the First Three Grades , pp1-25
  
• McGuffey's Eclectic Primer
  
• When appropriate begin writting 1 short story a week (4 or more sentences, as you deem fit)

Literature

• All the best Easy-to-Read books from the library, 1 a day.
  

• Andrew Lang's Fairy Books
  • The Yellow Fairy Book
    
  • The Violet Fairy Book
    
  • The Red Fairy Book
    
  • The Pink Fairy Book
    
  • The Orange Fairy Book
    
  • The Lilac Fairy Book
    
  • The Grey Fairy Book
    
  • The Green Fairy Book
    
  • The Crimson Fairy Book
    
  • The Brown Fairy Book
    
  • The Blue Fairy Book
• Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
  
• Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit
  
• The Real Mother Goose

History

• All the best easy-to-read history books from the library, figure on 1 or 2 a week.
  

• Make a Family Scrap Book & a Family Tree.

Biography

• The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Geography & Social Studies

• Easy-to-read books from the library about neighborhoods, maps, foreign countries, immigration, and our government. Figure on 1 or 2 a week.