Nursery Rhymes

Racking my brain to come up with the perfect unit for Language Arts for both my first grader and preschoolers. And this is where I landed. Absolutely perfect in my opinion, because I realized the other day that my kids sorely did not know Nursery Rhymes. Well they know a few, but this was an area that I sadly overlooked in all of our reading adventures.

So below are the links I've found for Nursery Rhymes, and off to the library we go this afternoon to get some books!

Master List of Nursery Rhymes This site has a GREAT list of Nursery Rhyme links.

A Rhyme a Week I really like the idea behind this!

Nursery Rhymes at A to Z

Preschool Nursery Rhyme Activities

Twinkle Little Star Activities

Mother Goose at Squidoo This site has lots of interesting links, like different versions of the book, flickr illustrations, and some sites that have vintage versions scanned, and tools near the bottom.

First Grade Lanugage Arts I thought this site would be helpful when I reach a rut with LA ideas. I definitely want to do the Alice in Wonderland one (its under Standard>Lesson Plans).First Grade Lessons Search. This site really has things laid out neatly, I've used them before with great success.

This year I had to notify our state that we are homeschooling, and I had the option to choose Annual Testing, or having a teacher watch over us. I choose the latter. DH's cousin is a teacher, so we are meeting once a month until the holidays, and then every other from then. She is having me make a spread sheet of a Scope & Sequence. Basically when we finish a unit/month (depending which makes sense for the subject), DD should know - A,B,C... check them off and make sure she does, or make sure we go back and learn them. I got most of the subjects done for the beginning part, and think this is GREAT! It really gives me focus and shows me her exact progress. Something others might find useful as well.