Calendar and weather board

I'm so excited we can finally use this! Ever since I started thinking about homeschooling (before the oldest could crawl, basically), I have wanted a cutesy morning board. I pictured me and my seven kids -- with teeth-glistening smiles and freshly-washed hair -- dutifully sitting around it every morning recording, with great enthusiasm, the date and weather. Shortly after that, I imagined, we would all retire to my French country-style kitchen for the homemade cinnamon rolls just coming out of the oven.

Well, the reality is a wee bit different (still waiting on that French country kitchen -- and the seven kids!) but at least we have a bona fide morning board! And it has pretty much everything I wanted -- activities that engage both a six-year-old and a four-year-old, even if figuring out the date three different ways can get a bit repetitive.

Everything is laminated (for wear and tear and so the kids can write on them). There's a regular calendar where they have to figure out the right number for the date (V-Man's job), then another calendar-type section where MM selects the day of the week, month, date and year. She also has to write the date every day in the correct format.

They can both record the weather inside and outside (thank you Homeschool Creations for the awesome temperature gauge!), and V-Man loves doing "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow" and recording the day's weather (both activities from the always-amazing Confessions of a Homeschooler). The clock (79 cents at an office supply store, yay!) lets them both practice telling/writing the time at their own levels. Plus, all the months and days of the week are written in English, French and Spanish.

And as a bonus for those of us who homeschool in the dining room, the tri-fold board folds up easily to slip behind a desk when we're done. 

So, hey, we're getting closer to my homeschooling ideal! And those homemade cinnamon rolls? They'll be out of the oven any second!


PS: Nobody tell me I need an apostrophe between the "c" and "est" in c'est. I know. Captain D bit it off!

Where I got stuff: 
The temperature gauge came from Homeschool Creations.
The awesome (as always) Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow and What's the Weather Like Today? activities came from Confessions of a Homeschooler.