Just a few more days until Benjamin begins Kindergarten and I start back to the homeschool blogging!
I hope to post our schedule and curriculum choices soon. I have spent the summer researching Classical Education and planning out his lessons. I have most of the year planned already.
He will be continuing with the Sprout program and starting a few new classes as well as joining the local homeschool group.
We are looking forward to our new school year!
Despite my returning to school full time to finish my degree, all of us having the never-ending cold (going on week three now), and moving this week, we are still doing our homeschool.
We have begun two different unit studies this month, Little House in the Big Woods, which will take us a few months to complete, and a two week one on bugs. We also completed a week theme on the circus. Hopefully after we are moved in I can post something on them.
Once we have moved I plan to devote more time to his phonics because he is asking to learn to read!
For the next week we will be forgoing our formal schedule and just working on things as time permits. I love the flexibility of Homeschooling!
Making a Gingerbread house.
Making Gingerbread men at Selby Lights in Bloom.
The Gingerbread boy skit at the library. Benjamin was the Gingerbread boy.
After this, Benjamin now runs around chanting
"Run, run, run,
As fast as you can
You can't catch me
I'm the Gingerbread boy
I am, I am" 
We made our own Gingerbread men.
My Great-Grandma Geddie gave me this Gingerbread boy when I was little. Every year he comes out for Christmas. This year he got to play Gingerbread boy hide and seek with Benjamin.
This is how he decorated his gingerbread man with the use of the craft box.
The front cover. The gingerbread house he designed at the Trim a Jan Bret Gingerbread house page and I just printed it out.
A better view of his coloring.
Inside the notebook.
Gingerbread booklet.
Gingerbread matching cards.
Gingerbread story sequencing cards.
Gingerbread stick puppets tucked inside a gingerbread house.
Notebook pages.
I also threw in a few Grinch pages.
We both enjoyed playing this game.
Trying to roll a gingerbread man can be quite funny.
In the back pocket.
Pages we used when playing the Roll-A-Gingerbread-Man.
The is the Gingerbread Baby board game from the Jan Bret website.
Books we read:
How the Grinch Stole Christmasby Dr. Suess
The Night Before Christmas by Clemont C. Moore
Cranberry Christmas by Wende and Harry Devin (We used the cranberry cookie recipe in this book to make cookies for our neighbors)
The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
Resources:
homeschool share gingerbread lapbook
a gingerbread unit study
gingerbread man thematic unit
