2 year old homeschool curriculum outline

[lilismamadez]

Hello all! I was totally inspired by the letter a week website to start something that structured a little bit of learning and a little less vegging into our day. Anywho, I have list and scheduling OCD,and it's crazy. I plan on starting next week on Monday. Instead of 26 weeks, we're doing 44 weeks (until the end of July). I'm not worried about holidays off, because I don't imagine the work being too much worky work for a 2 year old. I've actually hacked the original letter a week structure to death, but I don't feel guilty. I'm trying to follow the natural year, and holidays, to the best of my ability. I've seperated the months into units with 1-3 lessons that have to do with the main unit them (i.e. unit on fall, lesson on apples). Each still has a letter, a number, a shape/color, and a vocab work Lilith doesn't know yet associated with the lesson. I should be hitting basics such as meals/cooking, reading, counting, rhyme/song/dance, the learning board, arts and crafts, and critical thinking (to a pretty minute degree) every day. So far, I wanted to share my seasonal outline with you guys (Jan. is family because I'm due in Feb), as well as my plans for lesson 1, just imagine that the activities are spread evenly over two weeks and include meals and cleaning and nap time and baths and play outside time (well, if it ever stops raining)... oh, full day! lol

spread over the next two weeks we will be fall, apples, A, 1, red, orchard:
baking apple pie
dipping apples in caramel,
hiding and gathering apples
gluing felt apples to a paper tree
creating out first unit/lesson board
finding red apples
gluing an orchard to the lesson board
coloring the letter A
searching out A's, 1's or one of things, and red things in old magazines
making a macaroni A
coloring ONE of something with the color RED
eating red MnMs
making cookies with only red MnMs
putting out some fall decoration
eating red vines
reading fall/apple themed books
listening to apple/fall poems
singing a short children's orchard song everyday, maybe she'll learn it (lol)
starting the counting sticker book
starting the poem book
starting the learning box/work folder
starting Unit *book (made of all the posters to keep for later)*

trip to Homestead Hollow on Oct. 3rd for fresh apple cider and a look at autumn arts and crafts

And then my brainstorm of thematic ideas follows, and is subject o change based on what she knows about what when, and what she takes an interest in :)

Unit 2: Halloween
Lesson 2, week 3, Oct. 12-16 Spiders, B, 2, circle, webs
Lesson 3, week 4 and 5, Oct. 10-30, pumpkins, C, 3, orange, Jack-o-Lantern
Unit 3: Thanksgiving
Lesson 4, week 6, Nov. 1-6 Corn, D, 4, triangle, husk
Lesson 5, week 7 and 8, Nov. 9-20, Native Americans, E, 5, brown, arrow
Lesson 6, week 9 Nov. 23-27, Turkey, F, 6, oval, feather
Lesson 7, week 10 Nov. 30 - Dec. 4, Cleaning, G, 7, blue, soap
Unit 4: Winter
Lesson 8, week 11, Dec. 7-11, Snow, H, 8, star, ice
Lesson 9, week 12 and 13, Dec. 14-25, Yule/Christmas, I, 9, white, Santa
Lesson 10, week 14, Dec. 28 - Jan. 1 New Years, J, 10, squiggle, party
Unit 5: Family
Lesson 11, week 15, Jan. 4-8 Daddy, K, 11, grey, tools
Lesson 12, week 16 and 17 Jan. 11-22 Mommy, L, 12, crecent, pregnant
Lesson 13, week 18 and 19, Jan. 25 - Feb. 5, Little brothers/sisters, M, 13, pink, baby
Unit 6: Love
Lesson 14, week 20 and 21, Feb 8-19, Valentine's Day, N, 14, heart, card
Lesson 15, week 22 and 23, Feb 22 - Mar 5, Chocolate, O, 15, purple, sweet
Unit 7: Spring
Lesson 16, week 24 and 25, Mar 8-19, St. Patrick's Day, P, 16, green, clover
Lesson 17, week 26 and 27, Mar 22- Apr 2, Easter, Q, 17, rectangle, bunny
Unit 8: Earth Day
Lesson 18, week 28 and 29, Apr 5-16, trees, R, 18, dot, roots
Lesson 19, week 30 and 31, Apr 19-30 Recycling, S, 19, silver, can
Unit 9: America
Lesson 20, week 32 and 33, May 3-14, The American Flag, T, 20, line, wind
Lesson 21, week 34, May 17-21, Eagle, U, 21, black, fly
Lesson 22, week 35 and 36, May 24 - Jun 4, Storms, V, 22, square, thunder
Unit 10: Summer
Lesson 23, week 37 and 38 Jun 7-18, flowers, W, 23, yellow, butterfly
Lesson 24, week 39 and 40, Jun 21 - Jul 2, 4th of July, X, 24, diamond, firework
Unit 11: Lilith
Lesson 25, week 41 and 42, Jul 5-16, body parts, Y, 25, tan, skin
Lesson 26, week 43 and 44, Jul 19-30, Birthdays, Z, 3, pink, ME!

 

Will be updating with each new lesson with lesson/themed activities and so forth