Our Morning Board

This is our morning board. It is such a time saver for me. Especially when using Saxon Math. Every morning the girls write the day, month, year and then the abbreviated dates (i.e. 9-16-10). Then they do the outside/inside temperature and graph it on the thermometer. Next Bee does the weather for the day and then marks how many school days we have done above the the place where the older girls record the date. Liberty also uses the 100 number chart to count to 100 by 1's, 5's and 10's. Our weekly memorization verse (from My Father's World curriculum) is on the top in the middle. I just cut a page protector in half and slip the new verse in weekly. The older girls also make the date using coins in the upper right hand corner with the coins stored directly below it. For example if it is the 23rd they would need to find the right coins to make 23 cents. All three girls will be given a time to show me on the clock, Liberty's obviously being fairly easy :). Then in between the temperature and the date is where we will put 5 Spanish words to learn for the week for all 4 kiddos and then right next to the Spanish words is Kaleb's letter for the week, since he is working on his ABC's. Now all around the morning board are our flashcards. We have a 20 min. "drill time" with these daily. The skip counting and the multiplication/division flashcards are done daily. Then we alternate between the others which are fractions, telling time (for Bee), states and capitols, counting money (for all 3 girls) and then our artist flashcards. We are studying 2 artists a year. This year we are studying Mary Cassatt and Vincent VanGogh. The girls name the painting and the artist who painted it. Liberty and Kaleb also do sight word flashcards and I am amazed at how many sight words they know, I do think the pre-school prep sight word DVD's have played a huge part in this. I love them. I really do. So.... this is our morning board, it is sooo nice to have everything right there and its a good reminder to do all of this. So many times we get busy and these "little" things get pushed aside. Plus we can use dry erase markers, write it, erase it and start new every morning, no mess and no excessive papers to throw out!