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First curriculum ever PART TWO ✨ LETTER OF THE WEEK 🔡 This program is very good complement to thecraftyclassroom’s Shape of the Week, as you do the same set of tasks each day of the week for a different letter. I used this to solidify my kinder's letter recognition and to introduce the English alphabet to my ESL learner. We skipped talking about the sounds the letters make because I knew I would do a structured phonics curriculum down the road.

Both of these programs were a fun and gentle start to official homeschooling. Both kids developed an infectious excitement every Monday morning to get the new shape and letter.

You could take a minimalist approach and do this program as-is like I did. Or you could beef it up by reading letter-themed books, eating foods that begin with your letter of the week, or introducing some phonemic awareness activities.

It's funny to look back on this now because we're such a different place academically! I'll be sharing that progression over the next week or so... and then I'll give you a rundown of what's up for summer learning and my 2021-2022 curriculum picks!

For some video BTS check out my K/1 Curriculum highlight 💃🏻 How has your homeschool changed in just one year?
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Looking back on my very first curriculum purchase PART ONE ✨ After piecing together free resources for a couple of months in our first days of homeschool, I was basically extremely miserable. I needed someone to do some thinking for me... and I needed more structure in the day for all our sakes.

Enter the thecraftyclassroom's Letter of the Week and Shape of the Week programs!

✨ SHAPE OF THE WEEK 🟡 🟪 was an absolutely delightful intro to more official homeschooling after the exhaustion of putting it all together myself each evening for the next day.

The repetitive nature of this program was perfect for helping the kids work on it independently after just a couple of weeks. Each day of the week had the same set of tasks, and it was fun to watch them get in a groove. Working through this program helped inspire them to notice shapes all around them and it got them really interested in mazes which is just 🍰

I’ll post more in my Stories + k/1 Curriculum Highlights too 💃🏻 What was your favorite “first curriculum?”
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Cash can’t spell to save his life. Seriously. Give him a bunch of numbers to memorize just once or twice and he will remember it months later, but a CVC word outside of “Dog” or “Cat” throws him for a loop. It’s maddening! So I jumped at the chance to review Superstar Spelling by The Crafty Classroom (https://craftyclassroom.com) because I wanted to see if magic was real. Could this actually help my Sonshine with spelling?

The Crafty Classroom creates a number of different learning resources and Superstar Spelling is a printable spelling curriculum that takes all of the drama out of this subject. For grades K - 3, it takes the usual spelling practice and turns it on its head. It’s not just worksheets - it’s a scheduled plan of success including a variety of activities for each day of the week. Want to know what I think is the coolest part of this curriculum? You can input up to 20 of your own spelling words into the list and they will populate automatically throughout ALL of the printable worksheets! For the first time ever, without having to create materials from scratch, I can have a bilingual spelling list!

Our word list was color names. Ten were in English and ten were in Spanish. I printed out the weeks work, separated them into my daily folders, and felt the weight of spelling fall from my shoulders. After that it all became very routine. I gave Cash the sheets with his morning work and he enjoyed it thoroughly. These don’t look or feel like spelling worksheets - each very different activity was a maze, game, art activity or puzzle - which he was already accustomed to having in the morning to wake his brain up. At the end, with little effort on my part, he knew ALL of his spelling words! I’ve found my magic!

It doesn’t matter if you have a reluctant speller like I do, or a kid that loves spelling - The Crafty Classroom’s Superstar Spelling is sure to work like magic for you as well. And what kid (and their very tired parent) doesn’t like magic?

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This week’s letter is U... Jesus is UNCHANGING... Jesus is the creator of the UNIVERSE.
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The Bible ABC curriculum from thecraftyclassroom was such a good buy! Go check it out!
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I also quickly made a solar system printout with Col 1:16 as one of our memory verses this week... but I’m thinking of tweaking it some more and putting it on the shop. What do you think?
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