Need One-day Homeschool Ideas!

write words using a yellow highlighter, have them trace over them. This improves penmenship for the older one, and introduces sight words to the younger one.

make sock puppets.

empy the sock drawer, count, sort and re-organize.

alphabetize your spice rack.

read a story.

draw pictures.

have them make full sized self portraits (trace them when they are lying down on the floor).

create a scavenger hunt.

write letters to grandma, the mayor, the kid down the street.

go on a scavenger hunt and look for things that are blue.

have a great day.

F. B.

Home Economics - bake a cake or some cookies. Let them measure out all the ingredients and learn the difference between different quantities. Draw and color a picture of what they made.

Very cute that you are doing this! :)

Cooking/baking something. It involves lots of concepts my son covered in his Montessori preK - counting, measuring, pouring. Plus - there is the end result.

Do paper mache - you can use a flour and water paste - google it - no purchases involved. This involves measuring, dry and wet pouring and (if you start early enough to let your project dry) there is painting so you can cover colors (you can teach color mixing which is really cool for kids) and some fine motor skills. You could of course do painting with color learning without the paper mache.

http://www.dltk-kids.com/type/paper.htm

TONS of good stuff on that site.

I would scope out Pinterest!

http://family.go.com/

No need to say anything else because it's all on this website.

We homeschool, and an average day for us would be to do a little journaling (which for pre-writing kids could even mean drawing pictures - you give them a topic such as "what I did this weekend" and give them 10-15 minutes to write/draw about it). After journaling, we do math. For your little ones, it could be using small objects (coins, buttons, whatever) and adding or subtracting them. After that, do some reading. At this age, you would read to them, and if your Kindergartener can read at all, maybe she could read one of the pages to you. After that, maybe a nature walk (which could be a walk to the park, or if you're homebound because of snow, it could be a quick jaunt into the front yard to see if you can see any neighborhood animals outside, etc.). This time of year, it's fun to look for any patterns you can see in nature - can your kids identify circles, triangles, rectangles? When you get back inside, they can draw some of the things they saw outside.

I hope that helps! Have fun!

Use shaving cream on the windows and have them write letters in it

There are lots of on-line educational games....you could also get a sticker book which is educational. My dd loved those at that age.

Read books with lots of pictures, play I spy, learn counting or addition/subtraction using candy pieces