homeschool ideas/supplies

For three days (partial today, as I had to work) we have been in the new converted workshop--->school and Esme really loves it. She gets to paint, and glue, and read words we write on pictures and have conversations between man and woman bears *haha*

She keeps "reading" me stories and painting keyholes on cardboard and 'opening' them with a paper key looking for treasure.

Basically I want her to get used to the new 'idea' and work on finishing some projects and listening to me about new things. She really does like to see her work taped up on the wall and remember what we did before. Already we are about 75% there -- she wants to do all the fun (painting), but gets frustrated quickly when something is hard or when she begins to get boring. Exmaple: it was getting hard to squeeze the glue bottle while she was gluing clothes on a bear, so she wanted to glue them all on his face to be 'done'. Maybe I should have let her? I didn't - and she did finish, and she had fun having him talk to the lady bear I had made earlier.

She also cried so hard at having to leave the room for the night. I told her we could come back tomorrow if she was good... I am so tired, need to sleep!

homeschool supplies // have all of this already
scissors (mine, need to find hers I hid them last year because she wasn't ready)
glue and gluesticks
construction paper and colored printer paper
white cardstock and white printer paper
crayons and markers
letter tiles in her plastic suitcase (PAIRS in PEARS game)(for later)
printed counting figures/tokens
yarn (lots of it)
colored felt (lots of it)
watercolor paints
acrylic paints and palette holder
old jar or plastic cup for holding water for painting
paintbrushes
masking tape
paper towels

ideas : writing letters (of course), also drawing suns, moons, stars, talking about weather (hot/cold/umbrella/snow/etc.), putting teeth (white pompoms or pieces of cut felt?) in a monster/crocodile while counting them, giving food to animals, matching babies to animal moms, walking along a path from one place to another (paper maze), paper house with a bed to 'make', a table and chairs to set a table to eat etc..., painting apples and oranges and bananas with the right colors, putting yarn through holes in a card, matching circles or keyholes of different sizes to their mates on paper or cardboard, matching keys of different colors to keyholes of the same colors, matching the number of tokens counted out to the number shown counted out on a card, talking about different vehicles (plane vs truck vs car vs bus vs boat), underwater explorer (fish and little diver guy and an underwater scene)... needs a shark, collecting hidden kittens or chicken tokens into a basket

I was printing out an elephant sheet of Mama and five baby elephants to count/color and Esme saw it - was all ready to march downstairs with it to the 'school room.' She was so unhappy when I said I was just preparing it for tomorrow. She wanted to go all over again!