I have neglected to post an update for over a year! We have been busy! The thumbnail on last year is that I did flashcards with my toddler, just kept them on the dining table and went over a set after each meal. Things like letters, numbers, colors, etc., and I also kept two or three books on the dining table that I read to him after each meal.
With my preschooler, we incorporated a few new supplemental bi-weekly activities which included a play group and a co-op. At home our lessons were structured by "Math Monday," "Word Wednesday" and "Free-style Friday." He loved it! We did equations, which he usually came up with on his own, money lesson which consisted of five banks where he divided his money equally (share aka tithe/offering, spend, save, retire, tax). We did sight words, reading and handwriting, and for free style he could watch educational television or play educational computer games. All of our lessons were introduced on their appropriate day, and had to be done by the end of the week. Kind of on the side, he was also learning Spanish, mostly from bi-lingual library books. There were also many field trips and home experiments of a wide variety!
This coming year I will continue to use Math Monday, Word Wednesday and Free style Friday, as well as continue the play group and co-op. For lessons I will continue flash cards with my toddler, and am getting a little more intensive with my preschooler. On Mondays and Wednesdays we will have two hours dedicated in the afternoons, while my younger one is napping, to complete our lessons. I have a four part structure I am using for 30 minutes allotted for each section. It looks like this:
Math Monday
Practice - equation worksheet
Integration - word problems/riddles
Literature - read books about math
Application - game/activity/lab (time, money, cooking, calendar, computer programming)
Word Wednesday
Practice - handwriting, sight words
Integration - grammar
Literature - reading
Application - comprehension, story page
Links (more below):
http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames.html
http://www.jumpstart.com/parents/worksheets/english-worksheets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart_Preschool
http://www.tlsbooks.com/englishworksheets4.htm
http://www.abcya.com/dolch_sight_word_spelling.htm
http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/printdots/paragraph/
http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/word-problems.html
http://www.mathworksheets4kids.com/word-problems.html
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming
http://www.education.com/worksheets/word-problems/
PS. We do spiritual and Biblical studies as well, but I don't consider those academic. We constantly practice and reinforce values throughout the day. We pray and read the Bible together several times each day, and my older son keeps a Bible verse at his place on the dining table that he memorizes each month. Here are some blog entries that share spiritual holiday activities I have used:
Holy Trinity: http://rejoicinginchrist.blogspot.com/2011/03/holy-trinity.html
Easter: http://rejoicinginchrist.blogspot.com/2013/03/celebrating-easter.html
Christmas: http://rejoicinginchrist.blogspot.com/2012/12/celebrating-advent.html