I'm blue...

Last weeks color was blue, and boy did we do blue right! From start to finish we lived, breathed, ate and drank blue. Our PBL is "Starry Night", here's a look at what we did! 

This was my bin of blue goodies, every week, I gather everything a put it into my bin, create a daily project and put all the supplies into ziplock bags and label them. Makes life so much easier. 

I also gathered up some blue items for them to explore. It's how I introduced the color of the week. 

Colored sand kept her busy for hours... Literally hours!

We practices out cutting and gluing with the blue fish.

Before lunch we painted the sky, after nap she glued the Cotton balls and rain drops. 

I cut strips of blue things out of magazines and she cut them up and glued them. The hard part was working with her to make sure the blue side was up. 

This was lunch on blast off day of our Starry Night PBL. 

Hope you enjoyed our Blue week recap! 

Books I used in my curriculum development

I've been working on taking all my notes, pins, lesson folders and post its and putting them into a printable version of my curriculum for my readers. My journey started with a few pins on adapting ideas and concepts the older kids were learning in school. Then it turned into full fledged ideas to teach the concepts. When my husband and I decided we were going to move forward with home-schooling the younger girls, I set out to learn everything I could about the methods used across the globe. I settled into a comfortable relationship with the Reggio and Montesori methods. After much thought we integrated these with traditional ways and a focus on STEM.

There are a few books I used in my planning, and I wanted to share them with you. I purchased them [I like to highlight my books:: color inspires me], however for a more economical solution you could order them for your library and take notes as you go along. Sometimes I'll use the genius scan app on my phone to take a picture of a page in a book, then print it and highlight for reference.

Bringing Reggio Emilia Home

Teaching Montessori in the home 

I'm a huge fan of home libraries, so I typically try and buy my books if I know I'll reference them again, these books are already well loved.