We do a bi-weekly theme and then everything we do centers on that theme. This week we're doing Rain Forests and I'm reading picture books and low-level science books on rain forests. We're doing a couple of crafts that are rain forest based (I printed out butterfly outlines, cut them out and the kids all decorated a butterfly that we attached to craft sticks to use as puppets), we explore a letter and number and I put those in context of the theme (as we read the books, DD looks out for words that start with this weeks letter or we try to find animals in groupings of this weeks number).
Its based on the lesson plans/ideas found here:
http://www.letteroftheweek.com/index.html DD2.5 loves it! I'm homeschooling my DS7 and also have DS5 at home until he starts K in the fall, so I really need things to keep her occupied and ideas already set out for me. She has been begging me for almost a year, since we first started homeschooling my oldest DS, for her own school work and this really fits her well. It's not too schooly, it's not really labor intensive (I just put the books I want on hold from the libraries website, sometimes they even have whole kits that fit our theme with books, music, and puppets or toys), and all the kids enjoy the stories and the boys love helping DD find letters and count.
