Ready for school!

We are ready here for school!  I feel like I've been preparing all summer! Took some pics of our school room and areas to show you :)

Captain's desk...CHECK

 This is his own lesson plans I made so he could be responsible to see if he has done all of his work for the day.  He highlights each box as he finishes.  (The items in here don't represent what we all do together during "Morning Basket", which includes science, music, prayer, history and other fun extras.)  I got it spiral bound at Staples for $4 :)

 Captain's workboxes... (that bottom basket is the Morning Basket - shown on top are the library books that are recommended for our first chapter of Life science with REAL Science Odyssey)

Tot's area...CHECK

 Tot's trays for the first day of school

 Tot's 'A' basket - I sure need to collect more A things in future years...

  He's doing Carissa's Animal ABC's this year.  He knows all his shapes, colors, letters etc, so we're just reinforcing, learning sounds and having lots of fun!

And I just had to show off my pencil/pen/marker/everything caddy I made from a shoebox and lots of toilet paper rolls!

All About Spelling board...CHECK

Liturgical Calendar...CHECK (I got this free template from Sanctus Simplicitus.  All of her saints are PreVatican II, so my lovely husband changed all the months for me to reflect the current church calendar's saints. I'm hoping to figure out soon how to pdf them and share them on my site free for anyone who would like them.)

 
Geography wall...CHECK

History box of 'living books' (I'm using a mixture of Elizabeth Foss's American history study  at In The Heart of My Home with Jessica's 6 unit breakdown at Shower of Roses - our first unit is New World Explorers.  I really liked the idea of Living Books and will just be reading TONS to them about history - they seem to remember everything they hear out of books!)

More to come at the end of the week... ;)