4-MountainForestLife 20160415

Preschool
Homeschool
by Home CEO TM
Age 4: Exploring Our Earth

(Semester 2 - Week 4)
(Year Week 16)
Forest
Life
Chief Education Officers

Homeschool Preschool Curriculum by Home CEOTM
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30 Weeks, 3 Semesters!
Cohesive, educational, easy & fun!
This growing bundle includes 30 weekly thematic units (see 2016
delivery dates below) for preschool homeschool four-year olds. Also
suitable for high-flying 3’s and pre-K 5’s as well! Buy it here!
Home CEO Age 4 TM
Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3

Exploring Exploring Exploring
Our World Our Earth Our Community
(Weeks 1-12) (Weeks 13-21) (Weeks 22-30)
USA Avail Now Ocean Life Avail Now Doctor (May 15)
Mexico Avail Now Safari Life Avail Now Dentist (May 15)
Brazil Avail Now Desert Life Avail Now Mail Carrier (May 15)
Japan Avail Now Forest Life (Apr 15) Firefighter (May 30)
Australia Avail Now Rainforest Life (Apr 15) Chef (May 30)
India Avail Now Farm Life (Apr 15) Veterinarian (May 30)
Egypt Avail Now Arctic Life (Apr 30) Grocer (Jun 15)
Forest Life Avail Now River/Pond Life (Apr 30) Forest Ranger (Jun 15)
Israel Avail Now Solar System (Apr 30) Student (Jun 15)
Italy Avail Now
France Avail Now Bonus Xmas/Thanksgiving (Jun 30)
Norway Avail Now Bonus Bible (Jul 30)
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WHAT’S INSIDE
1. Introduction 5
2. Lesson Plan Weekly Overview 9
3. Circle Time & Theme Board 10
4. Wake Up! Warm Up! (Daily Language & Math Drills) 26
5. Additional Language Activities 49
6. Additional Math Activities 76
7. Art Activity 79
8. Science Activities 81
9. Social Studies Activities 91
10. Gross Motor Games 94
11. Encouragement Elves (Service Learning Math Activity) 98
11. BONUS: Bible Activities (Birth of Jesus) Coming July 2016 104
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1. INTRODUCTION
Hi and thank you for downloading the Home CEOTM Age 4 Preschool Homeschool curriculum
(Week 16 - Forest Life)! We are Maraya Pearson and Ashley Smotherman and we are home-
schooling preschoolers just like you!
This packet is the first of 30 weeks of material for preschool homeschool. It was made for our
own little ones for when they turn four but it will work for high flying three’s and pre-K fives as
well. There are three “semesters” in this curriculum:
|| Semester 1: Exploring Our World (12 weeks)

|| Semester 2: Exploring Our Earth (9 weeks)
|| Semester 3: Exploring Our Community (9 weeks)
To implement this homeschool, you will need some basic supplies, but we’ve kept it simple
and most items you will likely have on hand or can procure easily. We have three books we
recommend each week which are common and/or award-winning titles and most can be
found at your local library.
We recommend a 3-3-3 schedule. Three “blocks” of school-time a day, three days a week for
three weeks a month. The details are outlined later in this section.
For this curriculum, you will need three spaces set aside as bulletin board surfaces. The first
will house the Circle Time pieces, which cover “All About Today” with “How’s the Weather”
and “What is Today” board. pieces The second board or surface of your choosing will be a
themed board where each week we provide a bulletin board header piece with the name
of the weekly theme and daily pictorial vocabulary cards to learn more about the theme of
the week. You will add three vocab cards to your theme board each day of the three days of
“class”, so it is a growing board that is an interactive element of each school day. The third and
last bulletin board will be used for various language activities throughout the 30 weeks. More
details for all of these boards is included in the instructions for the various sections.
Your bulletin boards can be as simple as a cardboard science project board, mounted cork-
board, a floor flip chart, or a magnet board. For some inspiration, scroll through our Instagram
(@healthyhomeceo) to see various types of equipment we use in our own homeschool.

RECOMMENDED CLASS SCHEDULE

The great thing about homeschooling is the flexibility of the schedule. What has worked for us
is to have a routine but without strict timelines. This allows us to lengthen a particular section if
we notice a little one is particularly engaged and we don’t want to break her concentration. It also
helps to provide space for real life - snacks, potty breaks, etc. After waking up, morning cuddles,
dressing and eating, this is our general routine:
Block 1 (Generally at the “Circle Time” area, except for the first bullet)
|| Feed a Pet: Social and emotional learning - teach the mantra: “Pets need help!”
|| Circle Time: Days of the Week and How’s the Weather songs. Optional add’l songs & rhymes.
|| Wake Up! Warm Up! Short Language and Math drills.
|| Vocabulary: Update the theme board with vocab cards related to the theme.
|| Reading Time: Read aloud the daily book selection.
Block 2: (Generally, but not always, at a table)
|| Language: Daily supplemental language activity, typically done at the table.

|| Math: Daily math activity.
|| Other Subjects: Day 1 is Art, Day 2 is Science or Cooking, & Day 3 is Social Studies.
Block 3: (Physical activity or getting “out and about”)
|| Physical Development/Gross Motor: A physical game / activity.

|| Socializing / Outings: Playdate, park, etc.
|| Optional Bible: Evening activities - coming July 2016
HELPFUL HINTS
|| In some cases, we provide you with cutouts for use with bulletin boards and visual displays in
your classroom that coordinate with the lessons. We provide both color and black and white
versions and sometimes, if applicable, will provide small and larger versions to suit your per-
sonal tastes. In these cases, make note of the page numbers you want to print and only print
out the versions that you need. **Note: Some or all of the vocabulary cards for the theme
board are available in color only.

|| The curriculum overview sheet summarizes everything and includes your book selections
for the week.
BINS
In our homeschool preschool, one thing we’ve found helpful is to have small bins for each
of the weekly learning centers that we pre-fill before the start of each week (Sunday after-
noon is a good time). We also have a separate set of bins that we use for long-term storage
of basic supplies. At the end of this packet, we’ve included the bin labels we use in our own
homeschool classroom in case you find this useful for organizing your home education envi-
ronment.
For the weekly bins, we use simple open-top white bins with handles from Ikea (see Insta-
gram @healthyhomeceo for some pictures of our homeschool) and for the long-term storage
we use clear Sterilite locking closed-top bins. Before we had collected all our plastic bins,
I wrapped diaper boxes with a neutral matte silver wrapping paper for our bins and taped
labels to those. If you choose our labels, just print on cardstock, laminate if desired and at-
tach with tape or those removable sticky padded square tab “thingys” (not sure what they are
called).
You can put weekly rotating center bins on a low shelf in a row or on a countertop or other-
wise unreachable surface (sometimes its a good option to keep the art supplies hidden from
hands until you’re ready). When you are ready for that activity in the homeschool schedule
rotation, simply grab the bin and proceed.
PRACTICAL LIFE PRACTICE

One thing we really like to support in our homeschool is the Montessori-inspired “practical
life” activities. By having your child help with washing the table, washing dishes, sweeping,
dusting their school room environment, etc. we engender care and respect for the environ-
ment.
We recommend putting child-size cleaning equipment in a small child-size bucket within

close reach of the school room and use transition times to have your children “help” with the
clean up. Label their supplies with the “Practical Life” label or a more specific picture label.

Granted the children’s “cleaning” isn’t generally perfect, but the act of assisting is a helpful practice
that engender care and respect for the environment and fosters a helping spirit, even if it’s not real-
ly “clean”. (The purpose is more for teaching a life practice of order and cleanliness as opposed to
truly bearing the responsibility for cleaning at this young age).
ART CREDITS
This packet includes images and fonts, used with permission, from the following graphic artists and
art providers. Click on the links to learn more about these amazing artists!
|| Whimsy Clips by Laura Strickland

|| Creative Clips by Krista Wallden
|| Dancing Crayon
|| Z is for Zebra
|| Graphics from the Pond (http://graphicsfromthepond.blogspot.com)
|| The Lost Teacher
|| Kimberly Geswein Fonts
|| Pablo Impallari Cabin font
|| Wiki Commons Photos
|| EduPhoto
|| Strawberry Shake
|| Hidesy’s Clip Art
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LESSON PLAN OVERVIEW
| A Complete Year for Children Aged 4-5 by Home CEOTM|
Forest Semester 2:
Life Our
Exploring
Earth (Week 16)
All About Today Board: WUWU (MATH): Book Selections:

|| Days of the Week || Day 1: Counting 1-60|| Day 1: Little Red Riding Hood by Jerry Pinkney
|| How’s the Weather || Day 2: Numeration || Day 2: The Dancing Deer and the Foolish Hunter
|| Songs & Rhymes / || Day 3: Skip Counting by Elisa Kleven
BLOCK 1
Going on a Bear Hunt || Day 3: Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Vocab Theme Board: ||Additional Day 3 (For Retelling Strips Activity): Goldilocks
WUWU (Language): || Each day, read and and the Three Bears retold and illustrated by
|| Day 1: Ending Sounds G add 6-7 vocab cards Valeri Gorbachev
|| Day 2: Beginning to theme board.
Sounds Review J, K, L
|| Day 3: Writing IP & IT
Activities (Bin 3): Activities (Bin 4): Art Project (Bin 5):
|| Day 1: Hunt for IP, IT || Day 1: Encouragement || Day 1: Torn Paper Mountain Landscape
|| Day 2: Build IP and IT Elves (Make)
BLOCK 2
Words, Puzzle Piece 4 || Day 2: Encouragement World Trip Travel Journal (Bin 6-7):
|| Day 3: Goldilocks and Elves (Pack and Tally) || Day 2 (Science): Life Cycle of an Eagle, Forest
the Three Bears re- || Day 3: :Penny Count and Animals Heads/Tails Matching
telling & Bonus Forest Stack || Day 3 (Social Studies): Build a Forest Scene, Where
Match practice sheet in the World is Forest Life?
Physical Development: || Daily chore/pet care || Optional evening

BLOCK 3
|| Day 1: Forest Hopscotch || Encouragement Bible activity: Moses’

|| Day 2: What Time is It, Mr. Fox? Elves Exodus (*Available
|| Day 3: Forest-themed Action Cards || 3-4 outside activi- July 2016)
ties/week (library,
park, playdate, etc.)
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3. CIRCLE TIME
& Theme Board
In the Home CEO Age 4 curriculum, we have three “boards” up in the classroom at all
times: a theme board (changes weekly - this is simple, we promise), a circle time board
and a specialty board which changes each semester. For the boards, you can use pos-
terboards, corkboards, magnetic white boards or trifold science project boards or any
combination thaereof. We recommend using removable “sticky tab squares” to reuse
these boards again and again. *PLEASE SEE THE CIRCLE TIME PDF INCLUDED IN THE ZIP FILE
YOU RECEIVED FOR TONS OF BOARD, RHYME AND SONG PIECES FOR YOUR CLASSROOM.*
|| (1) Circle Time Board: Please supplement these pieces with a monthly wall
calendar of your choosing to practice months of the year (put a gold star on each
day and chant the 12 months). We recommend using Super Simple Song’s Hows
the Weather, Days of the Week and Months chant songs, which you can download
on iTunes, learn on YouTube or purchase their CD.
|| (2) Theme Board: Use the header pieces included in this section and the vo-
cab cards, included in the Language section to build your weekly theme boards. You
can also include the bonus earth environment circles however you wish.
|| (3) Specialty Board: This semester we’ll be adding pieces weekly to a Word
Family Reunion board and all these pieces are included in the Language Section.
Suggested Circle Time Sequence

|| What is Today song (Super Simple Songs) - See Circle Time
|| How’s the Weather song (Super Simple Songs)
|| Months of the Year Chant & put gold star on today (Super Simple Songs)
|| 3 or 4 Songs or Rhymes (This week, include “Going on a Bear Hunt”)

| Circle Time: Songs & Rhymes (Full Color) |
Going on a Bear Hunt

Chorus Uh-oh! Mud! Uh-oh! A cave!
[Repeat After Every Verse] Thick oozy mud. A narrow gloomy cave.
We’re goin’ on a bear hunt We can’t go over it, We can’t go over it.
(We’re goin’ on a bear hunt) We can’t go under it. We can’t go under it.
We’re going to catch a big Oh no! We’ve got to go through it!
one, We’ve got to go through it! Tiptoe! Tiptoe! Tiptoe!
(We’re going to catch a big Squelch squerch! Squelch WHAT’S THAT!
one,)I’m not scared squerch! Squelch squerch! One shiny wet nose!
(I’m not scared) Two big furry ears!
What a beautiful day! Uh-oh! A forest! Two big goggly eyes!
(What a beautiful day!) A big dark forest. IT’S A BEAR!
We can’t go over it.
Uh-oh! Grass! We can’t go under it. Quick!
Long wavy grass. Oh no! Back through the cave!
We can’t go over it. We’ve got to go through it! Tiptoe! Tiptoe! Tiptoe!
We can’t go under it. Stumble trip! Stumble trip! Back through the snow-
Oh no! Stumble trip! storm!
We’ve got to go through it! Hoo woo! Hoo woo! Hoo woo!
Swishy swashy! Swishy Uh-oh! A snowstorm! Back through the forest!
swashy! Swishy swashy! A swirling whirling snow- Stumble trip! Stumble trip!
storm. Stumble trip!
Uh-oh! A river! We can’t go over it. Back through the mud!
A dep cold river. We can’t go under it. Squelch squerch! Squelch
We can’t go over it. Oh no! squerch!
We can’t go under it. We’ve got to go through it! Back through the river!
Oh no! Hooo wooo! Hooo wooo! Hooo Splash splosh! Splash splosh!
We’ve got to go through it! wooo! Back through the grass!
Splash splosh! Splash splosh! Swishy swashy! Swishy
Splash splosh! [Repeat chorus LAST TIME swashy!
Get to our front door.
Open the door.
Close the door.
Phew!
That was close!
Lyrics by Michael Rosen

Images Copyright Whimdy Clips and Educlips
| Circle Time: Songs & Rhymes (Color) |

Open the door.
Close the door.
Phew!
That was close!

| Circle Time: Songs & Rhymes (B/W) |

Open the door.
Close the door.
Phew!
That was close!

Theme Board Bulleting Board Pieces (Option 1 - Small)
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Cut along the dotted line and use this piece as the header for your weekly themed
bulletin board. Each day you’ll be helping your child(ren) add themed vocabulary
cards to the board as they learn some preschool basics about the country. Available
in large and small sizes and color and black and white. (Choose one).
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Theme Board Bulleting Board Pieces (Option 2 - Large)
Print on cardstock, cut along the dotted line and paste together. Note: I
made a little overlap to give you room to paste the two sides together).

BULLETIN BOARD HEADER
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Cut along the dotted line and use this piece as the header for your weekly themed
bulletin board. Each day you’ll be helping your child(ren) add themed vocabulary
cards to the board as they learn some preschool basics about the country. Available
in large and small sizes and color and black and white. (Choose one).

Theme Board Bulleting Board Pieces (Option 2 - Large)
Print on cardstock, cut along the dotted line and paste together. Note: I
made a little overlap to give you room to paste the two sides together).

Board Bulletin Board Pieces (Exploring Our Earth Icons)
Use these pieces on your specialty board (Word Family Reunion - see
Language section) or throughout your classroom to emphasize the
theme of this semester.
Semester 2 / Week 1 Semester 2 / Week 2

(Year Week 13) (Year Week 14)



(Year Week 19) (Program Week 20)
Semester 2 / Week 9
(Year Week 21)





(Year Week 19) (Program Week 20)
Semester 2 / Week 9
(Year Week 21)

4. Wake Up!
Warm Up!
Wake Up! Warm Up! is a series of quick daily drills, one for language and one for math,
done in the first block of the school day after the Circle Time for the three days a
week of homeschool preschool. Wake Up! Warm Up! Activities take a few minutes
each. Think punchy, fast, and upbeat. Once done, be ready to quickly move onto the
next activity.
In the pages that follow, you’ll have the items necessary for these activities.
In Semester 2, we’ll be reviewing ending sounds and reviewing beginning sounds in

the WUWUs while in the Language Arts time we’ll be focusing on building rhyme
words.
In this week, your child will practice listening for words that end in the letter B and
F and reviewing beginning sounds D, E, and F. They will also practice writing rhyme
words on a marker board, chalkboard or piece of paper with you.
In the math warmups, your child will work on counting fluency 1-50 and number
families.

Forest Life: Wake Up! Warm Up!

At the start of the week, lay out all the materials for the Wake Up Warm Up! Activities
you’ll do in the first block of the morning (one quick interactive activity for both lan-
guage and math daily for each of the three days a week of our homeschool preschool).
As a reminder, here is the suggested schedule for our curriculum, which you may adapt
any way you’d like to meet your needs.
Block 1 (At the “Circle Time” area)

|| Feed a Pet: Social and emotional learning - teach the mantra: “Pets need help!”
|| Circle Time: Days of the Week & How’s the Weather song. Songs & rhymes.
|| Wake Up! Warm Up! Short Language and Math drills.
|| Vocabulary: Update the theme board with vocab cards related to the theme.
|| Reading Time: Read aloud the daily book selection.
Block 2: (Generally, but not always, at a table)

|| Language: Daily supplemental language activity, typically done at the table.
|| Math: Daily math activity.
|| Other Subjects: Day 1 is Art, Day 2 is Science or Cooking, & Day 3 is Social Studies.
Block 3: (Physical activity or getting “out and about”)

|| Physical Development/Gross Motor: A physical game / activity.
|| Socializing / Outings: Playdate, park, etc.
|| Optional Bible: Evening activities - coming July 2016

| Forest Life: WAKE UP! WARM UP! (Language) |
Wake Up Warm Up! Materials:

LANGUAGE / Week 16: Forest Life
Letter G Word Cards (Beginning or
Day 1 ending sounds)
Beginning & Ending Sounds (G): Today, you’re are gulping gorillas eating G sounds.
|| Script: Clap four times in rhythm and say: “Wake Up! Warm Up! Today we’re going to
practice listening for the letter G. What does G say? Guh! That’s right. Today we’re gulping
gorillas and we want to gobble up everything with the G sound! (humor the kids & demonstate
your best hungry ape). Let’s practive. Can you hear the G “guh” at the end of the word “egg”?
Yes! Let’s gobble it up. Now, lets look at more words!
As you flip over the word cards provided, say “Egg. Do you hear a guh? Yes? Let’s gobble
it up!” or “No. I don’t hear guh. That’s not yummy.” Some cards will not have a g sound.
Wake Up Warm Up! LANGUAGE / Week 15: Forest Life

Materials: This sheet
Day 2
Beginning Sounds Review (J, K, L): Review and fluency for identifying J, K & L sounds.
|| Script: “Wake Up! Warm Up! Today we’re practicing J, K & L sounds. Here are some pictures, Can you
point to something that starts with letter J “juh” sound? Can you point to something that starts with the
letter K “kuh” sound? Great! Now point to something with the letter l “uwlll” sound. Great job!

LANGUAGE / Week 15: Forest Life
Markerboard, Chalkboard or Paper
Day 3 and your IP and IT word cards OR Worksheet
Writing IP & IT words: Today we’ll reinforce the “ip” and “it” words you’ve been working
on this week with writing practice. Write the ending letters (ie: “__IP”) on the board
(with a line in front). Pick 2 IP and 2 IT word cards (see Language section for the cards).
|| Script: “Wake Up! Warm Up! Today we’re going to write some of your IP words and IT words. Here is
the I and P. Here is a word card. What letter is missing? S! (with sip). That’s right. Now write the letter S
here. Great! Let’s try one more. (Repeat with another IP word and two IT words).
If your child wants to do a few more, go ahead, but stop while she’s still having fun.

| Forest Life: Language Wake Up! Warm Up! (G Sounds Cards) |
Print and flip over one by one. Gobble any words with G sounds anywhere in the word.
Discard those that don’t.

| Mountain and Forest Life: WAKE UP! WARM UP! (Math) |
Wake Up Warm Up! MATH / Week 16: Mountain and Forest Life
Materials: None
Day 1
Today we will be doing rote counting, 1-60.
|| Script: “Today we’ll move our bodies, while counting from 1 to 60. We’re going to do some
fun moves and count like black bears!” (Show child how to count while making hands
look like bear paws scratching at the air, reaching to the right, left, right, left, right,
crossing the middle of the body) “Great!”

MATH / Week 16: Mountain and Forest Life
1 copy 0-5 Die, Touch Point Post-
Day 2 ers 0-5, Touch Point Cards 0-5, 5 Pennies
Today we will practice numeration (recognizing the amount represented by numbers)
0-5, using touch points. Print and (if possible) laminate the Touch Point Posters and
Cards ahead of time, if you haven’t done units 13-15. Print and maket the 0-5 die, too.
|| Script: [Showing zero poster] “Zero comes just before 1. Zero means you have nothing.
So, if I ask you to show me zero of something, how many would you count?” [pause] “You
wouldn’t count any! It means you have none!” “Now we will roll the die, and then count
out that many pennies and put them on the touch points on the number they go with!”
Wake Up Warm Up! MATH / Week 16: Mountain and Forest Life
Materials: 1 copy Let’s Count! 1-100 chart
Day 3
Today we will learn about skip counting by twos from 1-10. You’ll need a copy of the
1-100 chart.
|| Script: “Today we’re going to count fast from 1-10, by skipping numbers. We’re going to
practice counting two numbers at a time! Let’s start by counting normal 1-10... Next, we’ll
whisper a number, shout a number, [whisper 1, shout 2, whisper 3, shout 4, etc.]... Now,
we’ll be silent for a number, then say a number [silent 1, say 2, silent 3, say 4, etc.].” Start
slow, then get faster, pointing to numbers on the chart as you say them.

| Mountain and Forest Life: Math Wake Up! Warm Up! (0-5 Die) |
Directions: Print out the die below on cardstock. Then, cut on the BOLD SOLID
LINES, fold on the DOTTED LINES, and glue or tape together with tabs.
GLUE/TAPE
GLUE/TAPE
GLUE/TAPE
GLUE/TAPE
GLUE/TAPE
GLUE/TAPE
GLUE/TAPE

Let’s Count!
1-100

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
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51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80

81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90
91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100
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| Mountain and Forest Life: Math Wake Up! Warm Up! (Touch Point Posters-Color) |
0 zero
1
one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
| Mountain and Forest Life: Math Wake Up! Warm Up! (Touch Point Cards-Color) |
Touch Point Cards
0 1 2
zero one two
3 4 5
three four five

0 zero
1
one
2 two
3 three
4 four
5 five
| Mountain and Forest Life: Math Wake Up! Warm Up! (Touch Point Cards-Color) |
Touch Point Cards
0 1 2
zero one two
3 4 5
three four five

5. LANGUAGE
Activities Overview
In addition to the quick language practice done during the Wake Up, Warm Ups, we
have additional language practice during the week and that’s what’s in this section.
VOCABULARY CARDS FOR YOUR WEEKLY THEME BOARD

The first items you’ll see here are the vocabulary cards. Each day review 5-6 cards and
have your child(ren) add them to your growing weekly theme board.
WORD FAMILY REUNION & PRACTICE WORKSHEETS

Following the vocabulary cards, we have three activities to do, one for each day of the
3-day homeschool week.
Day 1 we will in go to the Word Family Reunion board and remind the children about
the “Legend of the Lost Words” story. This week they’ll go on a hunt for IP and IT
word cards.
(There is a lot more detail on this to follow but essentially you will be been building a
growing language skills bulletin board to practice rhyming word families during weeks
13-21, (Semester 2) of our 30-week Age 4 preschool homeschool curriculum.
Day 2 you’ll practice building the IP and IT words and on Day 3 you’ll be doing retelling
strips with your Goldilocks and the Three Bears book.
Enjoy!

WEEKLY THEME BOARD Daily Vocab Cards (Week 13: Ocean Life)
Each day, review 6-7 cards with your little one(s) and have them post it to your bulletin board.
Bears may look cute, but they Cardinals are beautiful red
can be dangerous. Keep a birds with a black “mask”. When
distance and when you visit the cardinals get excited they lift
woods & never keep food in your their feathers on their heads
tent because it attracts bears. (called a crest).
This young deer still has it’s Bald Eagleslive in the

spots. Baby deer are called continent of North America.
fawns and they are born with They make HUGE nests, 8-10
spots. The spots fade after feet wide that have been found
about five months. to weigh more than 1 ton!
Elk are related to deer but The Red Fox lives alone in the
are much larger. An adult male forest. It is a smart animal
elk can have antlers that tower that gives birth to 2-12 pups per
four feet above his head! year.
This series of trees is actual- The mountain cottontail

ly ONE 80,000 year old Aspen rabbit is called that because
tree called Pando. It is the it’s tail looks like cotton! Rabbits
earth’s largest and oldest single give birth to 7 or so pups 4-5
living thing! It lives in Utah. times a year.
The Lynx is a cat that lives Owls can almost turn their
alone in the forests of North head all the way around*
America, but they are also in Their wings make almost no
the mountains of Spain and in sound at all when they fly.
the forests of Russia. (*FYI for teacher, it’s 270 degrees).
Mountain Lions are also Most Raccoons only live for

called cougars*. They live alone 1-3 years. Many racoon get
and eat mostly deer. sick from disease and also are
*This species holds the Guinnes World Record for most harmed by cars. They often live
number of names for a species. in a single language with 40
English names . in groups.
Bighorn sheep live in the Squirrels hibernate

in
forests of North America. burrows under the ground for
Their horns weigh about 30 up to six months. They sleep so
pounds (about as much as a two hard that you could juggle them
to three year old child). and they wouldn’t wake up!
Grey Wolves live in packs of

The Rocky Mountain 2-30 wolves. The entire pack
Toad looks like a frog but
because it is a toad it doesn’t takes care of and protects the
have to live by water to survive. baby wolves (pups). Wolves can
smell 100 times better than us!
| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion - An Earth Expedition) |
Word Family Reunion!

During the nine weeks in our “Exploring Our Earth” semester from our Home CEOTM
Age 4 Complete Year Homeschool Preschool Curriculum, we’ll be going on an earth
expedition to nine different earth (and space) environments to find 18 missing word
families which were “lost long ago”.
For this activity, which crosses all nine weeks of the semester, you will need 18 1”
metal rings (the kinds that snap open and shut) OR ribbon to hold together 18 sets
of word family cards. (For this week, you only need two). You can get the metal rings
from an office supply store. If you don’t have a chance to get these, just use baggies.
You will be explorers who go on expeditions to new places to find new word families.
Each week your child will earn a puzzle piece for finding and building word families.
When they’ve collected all nine pieces they will be able to create one big “word family
picture” and successfully reunite all 18 word families that were separated long ago.
As a reminder, if you’re using our suggested schedule, you’ll do the additional

language activities in Block 2 of your day. Review the suggested schedule at
the start of this document, if needed).
On Day 1 during Language time in Block 2, you’ll start by rereading the Legend of
the Lost Words. This introduces our language skills “quest” for this semester
(which is to basically practice 18 word families through various activities to naturally,
through the course of word exploration, imbue the concept that letters form words to
have your child eventually learn on his or her “own” that “aha! wow! these are words!”
which is a magical moment).
After reading the legend, have your child “find” this week’s _IP and _IT word cards that
you’ll place around the school room and house (you may want to set this up the night
before or have the child wait in their room for a few minutes to set it up) .

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion - An Earth Expedition) |
For the first day when the task is simply to find and discover these words, you don’t
need to delve too much (if at all, really) into the mechanics of sounding out the words
- we will get to that in Day 2 this week - but just read the word with your child brightly
and cheerfully (if they don’t surmise it from the pictures on the word cards already) as
they find the word. Once your child has found all the word cards, hook them together
via metal rings. (This can be a nice fine motor activity for them). These card sets will
be the “control cards” which you’ll use on Day 2 to build the words.
On Day 2, you’ll practice the mechanics of building the word families. You can use
a moveable alphabet to do this OR you can use our divided cards. If using our cards,
sit on the ground together or the table, whichever you prefer, and put out the ending
sound (_ip, _it etc) at the top of your child’s workspace with the individual letters at
the bottom. Pick a control card from your ringed word family sets and ask your child
to combine the sounds to make the words. Once complete, provide the next puzzle
piece for the Word Family Reunion picture.
On Day 3 you’ll do practice review worksheets. This week you’ll read Goldilocks and
the Three Bears and ask your child to use the retelling strips to retell the story.
Semester 2’s Specialty Bulletin Board (Word Family Reunion):

In the following pages, you’ll also get the pieces to make this semester’s specialty bul-
letin board, which you’ll add to each week with a new puzzle piece. For the board, use a
bulletin board, magnetic marker board, poster board or science board (your choice).
The Word Family Reunion board will consist of:

|| The blue “Word Family Reunion” lettering
|| A copy of the treasure map
|| A copy of the “Legend of the Lost Words” story
|| Earth Environment Icons (see the Circle Time and Theme Board section)
|| The BLANK WHITE COPY of the puzzle board
|| Each week of the 9 weeks in this semester, you’re child will paste ONE of the 9 col-
ored puzzle pieces on top of the blank puzzle template
Our Approach Here: What we’re trying to do is not so much teach reading
directly but to provide various playful activities that allow the child to almost discover
reading “themselves” because if they take the “credit” for that discovery, it tends to
lead to more interest in reading (at least this is our take on Maria Montessori’s philoso-
phy on teaching reading, which Home CEO is definitely inspired by). This semester’s
word family CVC (consonant vowel consonant) word activities are a natural progression
from the time we spent practicing letter sounds throughout semester one. Enjoy!
| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion Board Lettering - Color) |
Directions: Print and put on your Word Family Reunion specialty board to have up for the whole semester.

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Letter Sounds Train) |
LEGEND of the
Lost Words
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, 18 word families were
having a nice family reunion vacation aboard a lovely ship, in the wide
open sea. Suddenly a storm arose and the wind and rain sunk their

ship! All the word families were thrown overboard! Luckily
everyone escaped but all the words and their word families were
scattered across nine different places all over the earth!
Some swam ashore to a desert land. Some landed in the rainforest.

Others found themselves in the Forest plains, some in the mountains,
some in ponds and rivers and some in a frozen arctic and antarctic
environment. One family wound up at Old Macdonald’s farm and some
words got so lost they wound up in outer space! Two word families
never reached shore and have been swimming in the ocean ever since!
But legend has it that [one or more] brave explorers can find all the
words and reunite the families! Are you that explorer?
You’ll find two new word
families each week as
we explore different
lands. Each week, you’ll
get a special puzzle
piece as you build words.
Collect all nine to reunite
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| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion Treasure Map - Color) |
Directions: Print, cut out the map and legend story and put on your Word Family Reunion specialty board
to have up for the whole semester. All of these nine places on this map correspond to the nine units in
Semester 2 “Exploring Our Earth”.

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion Weekly Puzzle Pieces - Color) |
Directions: Print out, cut into pieces but DO NOT give to your child all at once!
Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Your child will earn one piece per week for the nine weeks of the semester, after
Day 2 when he or she will “build” the two sets of word family words that day.
Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 For this week, after your child completes the AT and AM word building activities
(see the Day 2 cards), give them one puzzle piece and have him or her paste it
onto the blank puzzle template on your Word Family Reunion bulletin board.
Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9
See the puzzle piece delivery schedule to the left.

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion Blank Puzzle for Board)
Directions: Print, cut out around the perimenter (do NOT cut as individual pieces) and place onto your Word
Family Reunion Bulletin Board. It will serve as a placeholder for where your child will collect the pieces
they’ll earn each week. (Given these are young children this will be a valuable exercise in patience for me-
thodically sticking with it as an opportunity to learn how anything can be accomplished with perseverance).
_AM & _AT Words _AP & _An Words _AD & _IG Words
_ip & _iT Words _in & _op Words
_ot & _ox Words
_ug & _un Words _ut & _et Words
_en & _ed Words

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion Board Lettering - B/W) |

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Reunion Treasure Map - B/W) |

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Letter Sounds Train) |
LEGEND of the
Lost Words
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, 18 word families were
having a nice family reunion vacation aboard a lovely ship, in the wide

open sea. Suddenly a storm arose and the wind and rain sunk their
ship! All the word families were thrown overboard! Luckily
everyone escaped but all the words and their word families were
scattered across nine different places all over the earth!
Some swam ashore to a desert land. Some landed in the rainforest.

Others found themselves in the Forest plains, some in the mountains,
some in ponds and rivers and some in a frozen arctic and antarctic
environment. One family wound up at Old Macdonald’s farm and some
words got so lost they wound up in outer space! Two word families
never reached shore and have been swimming in the ocean ever since!
But legend has it that [one or more] brave explorers can find all the
words and reunite the families! Are you that explorer?
You’ll find two new word
families each week
as we explore differ-
ent lands. Each week,
you’ll get a special puz-
zle piece as you build
words. Collect all nine
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families!
| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Card Covers - Color) |
Directions: Print, (on cardstock if desired). Punch a hole at the top, attach via a a ring clip after your child has
“found them” on Day 1 (see section overview) Set aside a small to medium sized basket to contain all the
word family sets, which you’ll collect over the next 9 weeks.

_IP IP _IT
Words IP Family
Words IT Family


| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Control Cards (_ip, _it) - Color) |
Directions: Print, hole punch. Hide on Day 1 and have your child find these and help put them into rings with their
cover cards. These full word cards will serve as control cards to help with constructing the words on Day 2.
DIP HIP
TIP LIP
NIP RIP
SIP ZIP
SIT HIT

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Control Cards (_ip, _it) - Color) |
Directions: Print, hole punch. Hide on Day 1 and have your child find these and help ut them into rings with their cov-
er cards. These full word cards will serve as control cards to help with constructing the words on Day 2.
FIT LIT
KIT PIT
BIT
IP IT
Pair these blank cards with the beginning sound cards on the
next page to make a “flippable” word builder on your metal
rings. When first building the words, do so on a flat surface
and manually pair the words. But use this flippable version as
a review on Day 3 and at other times, as needed.

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Directions: Print, cut out. Using the control cards as reference, build the IP and IT words to earn a puzzle piece. These pieces can be
placed on the rings as well to flip and build a word using the blank IP and IT cards on the previous page. Store these on the word family
rings when not in use.
|
(_ip, _it) - Color)
P
Forest Life: Language Day 2 (Word Building Cards
K
H
H
D
B
|

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Card Covers - B/W) |
Directions: Print, (on cardstock if desired). Punch a hole at the top, attach via a a ring clip after your child has
“found them” on Day 1 (see section overview) Set aside a small to medium sized basket to contain all the
word family sets, which you’ll collect over the next 9 weeks.

_IP IP _IT
Words IP Family
Words IT Family


| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Control Cards (_ip, _it) - B/W) |
DIP HIP
TIP LIP
NIP RIP
SIP ZIP
SIT HIT

| Forest Life: Language Day 1 (Word Family Control Cards (_ip, _it) - B/W) |
FIT LIT
KIT PIT
BIT
IP IT
Pair these blank cards with the beginning sound cards on the
next page to make a “flippable” word builder on your metal
rings. When first building the words, do so on a flat surface
and manually pair the words. But use this flippable version as
a review on Day 3 and at other times, as needed.

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Directions: Print, cut out. Using the control cards as reference, build the words to earn a puzzle piece. These pieces can be placed on the
rings as well to flip and build a word using the blank IP and IT cards on the previous page. Store these on the word family rings when not
in use.
|
(_ip, _it) - B/W)
P
Forest Life: Language Day 2 (Word Building Cards
K
H
H
D
B
|

| Forest Life: Language Day 3 (Goldilocks Retelling Strips - Color) |
Directions: Print & cut out. After reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, your child will put the story in order.
Script: “Goldilocks went to the bears’ house and saw lots of things before she ran out. Here are the pictures
from the story. Can you help me put them in order? What comes first?

| Forest Life: Language Day 3 (Goldilocks Retelling Strips - B/W) |
Directions: Print & cut out. After reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears, your child will put the story in order.
Script: “Goldilocks went to the bears’ house and saw lots of things before she ran out. Here are the pictures
from the story. Can you help me put them in order? What comes first?

| Forest Life: Language Day 3 (Bonus Sheet) |
Name: ________________________
ForestV Match
Directions: Match the forest animal with it’s beginning sound letter.
B
M
W
F
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| Forest Life: Language Day 3 (Bonus Sheet) |
Name: ________________________
ForestV Match
Directions: Match the forest animal with it’s beginning sound letter.
B
M
W
F
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| A Complete Year for Children Aged 4-5 |
6. MATH
Activities
Welcome to the Math activities for our Mountain and Forest Life unit! We’ll
be focusing on counting from 1-60 and recognizing numbers (0-5), wth a
focus on understanding the concept of “zero”, and skip counting by twos
during our morning quick drills time, as well as doing other engaging activities
to solidify these concepts taught during our preschool week! (For the first
two days of math this month, we are continuing our annual service learning
counting project “Encouragement Elves” - see Section 11).

| Mountain and Forest Life: Math Day 3 (Color) |
Penny Count and Stack

Directions: You’ll need 50 pennies (or other small, stackable objects). Instruct
your child to fill each square in the grid with a stack of the number of pennies
indicated. Remind him or her that 0 means nothing, so any square with a 0
should have no pennies in it. Have touch point cards near by for reference. Go
either row-by-row or column-by column.
4 0 3 1 0
1 5 2 0 4
0 2 0 1 3
3 0 4 5 0
4 0 5 2 1
| Mountain and Forest Life: Math Day 3 (B&W) |
Penny Count and Stack

Directions: You’ll need 50 pennies (or other small, stackable objects). Instruct
your child to fill each square in the grid with a stack of the number of pennies
indicated. Remind him or her that 0 means nothing, so any square with a 0
should have no pennies in it. Have touch point cards near by for reference. Go
either row-by-row or column-by column.
4 0 3 1 0
1 5 2 0 4
0 2 0 1 3
3 0 4 5 0
4 0 5 2 1
7. Art
Activity
(Torn Paper Mountain Landscape)
Use these pages for the art project typically done in the second school block
of the day on the first day of your school week. (In Block 2, following the
language and math supplemental activities, you do art on day 1, science or
cooking on day 2 and social studies on day 3.)
Supply List Basics

|| Various pieces and colors of con- || Glue stick
struction paper - make sure one is
blue, for “sky” background

Accompanies the Homeschool Preschool Curriculum by Home CEOTM
ART - Project Reference Sheet
Example
Mountain and Forest Life

Torn Paper Mountain Landscape
Project Credit: http://www.makeandtakes.com/creating-torn-paper-landscapes
Instructions
1. Place your blue piece of backgroun paper with long sides on left and right,
short on top and bottom (portrait orientation).
2. Tear a strip off of your first piece of paper to look like mountains.
3. Leaving a bit of space at the top, glue your first torn paper onto your back-
ground.
4. Continue tearing paper to look like mountains and hills, and then overlap
and glue, filling the page.
5. Once your page is full of mountains, add a torn paper sun and clouds to
the sky background!

8. SCIENCE Activity
(Eagle Life Cycle & Living/Nonliving Classification)
In the nine weeks of the Exploring Our Earth semester, you’ll be doing life sci-
ence activities because life science is such a fascinating area of study for little
ones.
You’ll be doing your science activity in Block Two of the day after your language
and math activities. We recommend doing art, science and then social studies
as the third activity in Block 2 on days 1, 2, and 3 respectively.
For science this week you’ll be doing an eagle life cycle and a forest animals
matching heads and tails activity.
Since we’ll be doing nine life cycles these next nine weeks, we’ve included a
cover page for you to either create a new ”My First Science” notebook OR sim-
ply add the section page break sheet to the next page in your child’s “My First
Travel Notebook”, (which you received the cover and pages for in Semester 1) to
give some structure around these new elements in the notebook. Personally,
in our homeschool, we are simply adding the section break page into our exist-
ing “My First Travel Notebook” as additional places we’ve visited (ocean, desert,
Forest environments, etc) all over the world. But we leave that to you as both
options are available.
The classification activity can be done as a separate activity or pasted into your
child’s notebook.

| Forest Life: Science (My First Travel Notebook New Section Divider) |
Directions: Either add the science activities to your child’s existing “My First Travel
Notebook OR get a new lab notebook for the science activities this semester.
Exploring Our
Earth
9 environments
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| Forest Life: Science (Optional New Notebook Cover) |
Directions: Either add the science activities to your child’s existing “My First Travel
Notebook OR get a new lab notebook for these science activities.
My First
Science
Notebook
Name:
Date / Age:

| Forest Life: Science (Optional Science Notebook Table of Contents) |
Page Title
1 Life cycle of a Sea Turtle
2 Life Cycle of a Crocodile
3 Life Cycle of a Dung Beetle
4 Life Cycle of an Eagle
5 Life Cycle of a Plant
6 Life Cycle of a Chicken
7 Life Cycle of a Penguin
8 Life Cycle of a Frog
9 Moon Phases

| Forest Life: Science (Life Cycle Journal Page) |
Directions: Cut on the dotted line and add to your child’s“Travel Journal” notebook.
Cutouts and steps are on the next page. **Only available in color for this unit**
Life Cycle
of an Eagle!
Bald eagles live in the forests of North America. These
beautiful birds are the national bird of the United States.
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| Forest Life: Science (Life Cycle Journal Page) |
Directions
Cut out the pieces and paste onto the life cycle. Read the life cycle explanation out
loud to your child as he or she starts the activity to help them understand how a croco-
dile is born.
EAGLE INFO & Life Cycle Explanation script
In February a Mommy and Daddy Bald Eagle start building a nests. Bald eagles often
use tthe same nests year after year and keep adding to them, so the nests get quite
large - often over 10 feet wide and up to 10 feet deep too! The nests are lined with
down, the smaller softer feathers that the eagles have underneath their main feathers.
A mommy eagle lays her eggs and about 35 days later an eagle chick hatches! At first
it is white and doesn’t have any of its brown and white feathers. After 9 weeks the
baby eagle has all its feathers, except the head feathers are still not bright white. Three
weeks later they leave the nest but stay in nearby trees for another 1-3 months. After
five years, the bald eagle has its full head of white feathers and is ready to start it’s own
family. It will return the the same area where it was born and build a nest and the life
cycle starts all over again!
1 2
4
3
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| Forest Life: Science (Heads & Tails - Matching Activity) |
Directions: Print, cut out. Match heads and tails!
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| Forest Life: Science (Heads & Tails - Matching Activity) Color Only |
Directions: Print, cut out. Match heads and tails!
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9. SOCIAL STUDIES

Activities
(Mountain and Forest Life Scene & Map)
On Day 3 of the Mountain and Forest Life-themed homeschool preschool

week, you will be creating an Mountain and Forest Life habitat scene and
learning about what parts of the world have Mountain and Forest Life. As a
reminder of the schedule, we recommend that social studies time be done
in the second block of the day, on the third day of our three-days-a-week
schedule. Of course, feel free to adapt the schedule to fit your needs, too!
The habitat scene and map will be pasted into your child’s “Travel Journal”. As
previously mentioned, the Travel Journal is an interactve notebook that you
and your little ones will be “building” throughout our curriculum so that you
and your family will have a wonderful memories book to remember every-
thing they are learning this year. There is an optional cover to print out and
paste to the cover of your child’s Travel Journal.
The habitat scene (you choose color or b&w, which your child can color) will
be pasted on the left side of a 2-page opening in the travel journal. The map
will be pasted onto the right side of the 2-page opening.

| Mountain and Forest Life: Social Studies Day 3 (Color) |
Directions: Cut on the dotted lines, then paste the animals into the Mountain and
Forest Life scene, and add to your child’s“Travel Journal” notebook. Talk about animal
names and which ones need to be closer to the surface of the water.
Mountain & Forest

Life Scene

Directions: Cut on the dotted lines, then color in the continents with only moun-
tains brown and those with both mountains and forests green. Then, add to your
child’s“Travel Journal” notebook. Talk about how many continents have only moun-
tains, and how many also have forests.
(Note: We excluded rainforests here...we’ll cover them next week!)
Where in the World is

Mountain and Forest Life?
There are many forests in the world, but here are some of the main
ones!
Taiga
Białowieża Forests
North Forest
America
Rocky
Europe
Appalacian
Mountains & Mountains Asia
North American
Taiga forests
Africa
South Mao Forest

America
Australia
M Did You Know? Scientists have found

Antarctica ancient (no longer living) trees and
forests on Antarctica! Our world was
once much different than it is today!

| Mountain and Forest Life: Social Studies Day 3 (B&W) |
Directions: Cut on the dotted lines, then paste the animals into the Mountain and
Forest Life scene, and add to your child’s“Travel Journal” notebook. Talk about animal
names and which ones need to be closer to the surface of the water.
Mountain & Forest

Life Scene

Directions: Cut on the dotted lines, then color in the continents with only moun-
tains brown and those with both mountains and forests green. Then, add to your
child’s“Travel Journal” notebook. Talk about how many continents have only moun-
tains, and how many also have forests.
(Note: We excluded rainforests here...we’ll cover them next week!)
Where in the World is

Mountain and Forest Life?
There are many forests in the world, but here are some of the main
ones!
Taiga
Białowieża Forests
North Forest
America
Rocky
Europe
Appalacian
Mountains & Mountains Asia
North American
Taiga forests
Africa
South Mao Forest

America
Australia
M Did You Know? Scientists have found

Antarctica ancient (no longer living) trees and
forests on Antarctica! Our world was
once much different than it is today!

10. GROSS MOTOR

Games
Little ones have bodies that need to move! Each week, your child will be
provided with some physical activities that help him or her with develop-
ing gross (big movement) motor skills. These Mountain and Forest Life and
counting-themed motor skills games should provide them with an opportu-
nity to learn while moving!
These activities can be done in any order and modified for weather, if neces-
sary. Whatever works for you, do it!

GROSS MOTOR GAMES - Activity Reference Sheet
Forest Hopscotch GROSS MOTOR / Week 16: Mountain and

Forest Life
Activity 1 Materials: acorns or sticks, sidewalk chalk
Draw a hopscotch board on the sidewalk, but instead of numbers, write different forest
animal names (fox, deer, bear, squirrel, skunk, raccoon, chipmunk, rabbit, mouse, owl, or
any others you can think of) in each square. Toss an acorn, stick, or stone into a square.
Then, act like the animal it lands on, as you hop to collect your to
What Time is it Mr. Fox? GROSS MOTORForest

/ Week 16: Mountain and
Life
Activity 2 Materials: None
Stand with your back to your child in a large, open area (outside is preferable). You will
be Mr. Fox and the object of this game is for your child to get past you. Your child will
say, “What time is it Mr. Fox?” If Mr. Fox answers a time, “It’s five o’clock,” then the child
will move forward that many steps (5 in this case). Steps can be any size the player
wants. If Mr. Fox says, “It’s lunch time!” then he or she turns around and chases the play-
er to the starting line. If Mr. Fox catches a player, he or she becomes the new Fox. If not,
play continues with the same fox.
Mountain and Forest GROSS MOTOR / Week 16: Mountain and

Forest Life
Life Action Cards Materials: 1 copy of Mountain and Forest Life
Activity 3 Action Cards
Today we will have fun moving our bodies!

Mountain and Forest Life Action Cards
GROWL
like a bear HOOT
like an
owl
PUFF UP LEAP
your cheeks like a
like a chipmunk deer
collecting nuts
Have fun acting out these Mountain and Forest Life-themed action cards!

GROWL
like a bear HOOT
like an
owl
PUFF UP LEAP
your cheeks like a
like a chipmunk deer
collecting nuts
Have fun acting out these Mountain and Forest Life-themed action cards!

11. ENCOURAGEMENT
Elves
In the Home CEOTM Chief Education Officer Age 4 curriculum, the first week
of every month features a service learning math activity called Encourage-
ment Elves. This activity incorporates basic math while creating a craft, for
$10 or less, to be given to someone in the community as a form of encour-
agement and as a way to teach children to enjoy encouraging others.
This is done the first week of every month or as often as you desire.
The Encouragement Elves craft for this semester is clothespin magnets.

**Please email maraya@healthyhomeceo.com if you have any easy and inex-
pensive craft suggestions for this program**.
During the normal math period in Block 2, you would make this craft on Day 1
and on Day 2 you will package them, tally them and deliver them to the spe-
cial person. When delivering, collect the memories and take a photo of your
delivery and use #encouragementelves to document the moment!
You may either mail these items or deliver them in person.

| Encouragement Elves: Clothespin Magnets |
Directions: Cut out this craft card and fold over and tape at the bottom to make a front and
back card. Over the course of our 30 week homeschool preschool, 10 people will be “elved”
with your child’s preschool crafts, delivering 30-50 crafts in total.
Clothespin Magnets
SUPPLIES
|| 3-5 wooden clothespins

|| Thin ribbon
|| Craft glue
|| Paintbrush
|| Buttons or other embellishments
of your choosing
|| Strong magnets
|| Super glue (adults only)
Image and Project Idea Credit: http://www.home- || Small cellophane bags
made-gifts-made-easy.com || Ribbon (for wrapping)
ment the moment!

Be sure to take a photo of your delivery and use #encouragementelves to docu-
Package the gift in a small celophane bag tied with a ribbon and tag. 8.
(Adult only) Superglue a strong magnet on the back. 7.
Gently trim any excess ribbon. 6.
Let dry. 5.
Gently add a cute button at the bottom with a dot of glue. 4.
Affix the ribbon, press and hold for 30 seconds. 3.
Gently put the glue on the top of the clothespin with a paintbrush. 2.
Cut out small pieces of ribbon the length of the paperclip. 1.
INSTRUCTIONS

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Directions: Clip a hole in the tags, string with ribbon and affix to your Encouragement
Encouragement Elves: Gift Tags (SMALL)
Enjoy this Gift Enjoy this Gift

from ________! from ________!

Elves spoons, wrapped in celophane, jar or paper bag.
You’ve been “elved”! Thank you for You’ve been “elved”! Thank you for

being YOU! As part of our preschool, being YOU! As part of our preschool,
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we’re encouraging others by telling we’re encouraging others by telling
them how much we appreciate them them how much we appreciate them
through our Encouragement Elves through our Encouragement Elves
program! We hope this craft brightens program! We hope this craft brightens
your day! your day!
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Directions: Clip a hole in the tags, string with ribbon and affix to your Encouragement
Encouragement Elves: Gift Tags (SMALL)
Enjoy this Gift Enjoy this Gift

from ________! from ________!

You’ve been “elved”! Thank you for
You’ve been “elved”! Thank you for

being YOU! As part of our preschool,
being YOU! As part of our preschool,
we’re encouraging others by telling
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we’re encouraging others by telling
them how much we appreciate them
them how much we appreciate them
through our Encouragement Elves
through our Encouragement Elves
program! We hope this craft brightens
program! We hope this craft brightens
your day!
your day!
oa!
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Elves crafts.
| Encouragement Elves: Tallying Board |
Directions: Print, laminate if desired and keep a running tally of how many Encourage-
ment Elves treats you’ve made, given out or nominations you’ve received throughout
the course of the school year. Mark out with gold stars, marker or similar.
My Encouragement Elves Tally

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100

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| Encouragement Elves: Tallying Board |
Directions: Print and write a list of people you want to encourage and the names of
those that have been “nominated” by others who’ve already been “elved”.
My Encouragement Elves List

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10 Bible
Mini-
Units c
oming
July 20
12. BIBLE 16!
Moses’ Birth
Coming July 2016 - optional evening Bible studies! The story of Moses’ birth
will be used and broken down between for the Ocean Life, Safari Life and
Forest Life units (weeks 13-15 of our curriculum).


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Preschool

Age 4: Exploring Our Earth

Chief Education Officers

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Home CEO Age 4 TM

Semester 1 Semester 2 Semester 3

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|| Semester 1: Exploring Our World (12 weeks)

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RECOMMENDED CLASS SCHEDULE

Block 2: (Generally, but not always, at a table)

|| Language: Daily supplemental language activity, typically done at the table.

Block 3: (Physical activity or getting “out and about”)

|| Physical Development/Gross Motor: A physical game / activity.

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PRACTICAL LIFE PRACTICE

We recommend putting child-size cleaning equipment in a small child-size bucket within

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|| Whimsy Clips by Laura Strickland

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All About Today Board: WUWU (MATH): Book Selections:

Going on a Bear Hunt || Day 3: Owl Moon by Jane Yolen

Physical Development: || Daily chore/pet care || Optional evening

|| Day 1: Forest Hopscotch || Encouragement Bible activity: Moses’

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Suggested Circle Time Sequence

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Going on a Bear Hunt

Lyrics by Michael Rosen

Going on a Bear Hunt

Lyrics by Michael Rosen

Going on a Bear Hunt

Lyrics by Michael Rosen

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Semester 2 / Week 1 Semester 2 / Week 2

Semester 2 / Week 3 Semester 2 / Week 4

Semester 2 / Week 5 Semester 2 / Week 6

Semester 2 / Week 7 Semester 2 / Week 8

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Semester 2 / Week 1 Semester 2 / Week 2

Semester 2 / Week 3 Semester 2 / Week 4

Semester 2 / Week 5 Semester 2 / Week 6

Semester 2 / Week 7 Semester 2 / Week 8

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In Semester 2, we’ll be reviewing ending sounds and reviewing beginning sounds in

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Forest Life: Wake Up! Warm Up!

Block 1 (At the “Circle Time” area)

Block 2: (Generally, but not always, at a table)

Block 3: (Physical activity or getting “out and about”)

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Wake Up Warm Up! Materials:

Wake Up Warm Up! LANGUAGE / Week 15: Forest Life

Wake Up Warm Up! Materials:

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Wake Up Warm Up! Materials:

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