Detailed Weekly Plan for a Spring Themed Unit Study

If you missed it, I gave ideas for a Spring Themed Unit Study, as well as a Butterfly Unit Study. With being stuck at home, and my husband being on 'spring break' now instead of in April (he is a public school teacher), I decided to take a spring break, but not completely get rid of learning activities (we need things to do in the morning besides watching Disney +!). Today I want to share my schedule for the week, and exactly what we will be doing. If you want to know how our week went, be sure to follow both my Facebook and Instagram accounts to find out! Yes, we are technically doing 'school' during our spring break, but making sure everything is so much fun!

Monday: Ladybugs and Telling Time

Book: The Grouchy Ladybug
Math: Kumon Telling Time Book
Phonics: Find the Sight words! (using a ladybug counter or other bug counter, find the sight word I read and place it on the corresponding index card.)
Art: Pop-up paper ladybug
Science: Look at the bug section in the Nature and Farmer Anatomy books

Tuesday: Bugs

Book: Bugs for Lunch
Math: Bug counter activities (patterns, addition, subtraction)
Phonics:
Art: Invitation to play making bugs
Science: Pick an animal from back of the Bugs for Lunch book and study it. Look at an Insect book during quiet time.

Wednesday: Butterfly Life Cycle

Book: A Very Hungry Caterpillar
Math: Measuring Caterpillars+ Days of the Week (these activities can be found in the literature unit by Simply Learning)
Phonics: Wednesdays are normally for handwriting, and he loves to do it! He will do 1 page in A Reason For Handwriting book.
Art: Salt paint a butterfly (draw butterfly outline in glue, and let kids pour salt and shake it off. using watercolors, let your kids paint the design and let it dry.
Science: Do a life cycle craft
Bonus: pancake caterpillars for breakfast!

Thursday: Weather

Book: Magic Schoolbus Inside a Hurricane
Math+ Art: Addition clouds
Phonics: Watercolor 'magic' sight words (use blues to make it look like a sky!)- use a white crayon to write words we are learning. Let your child paint over it and reveal the hidden words!
Science: 2 activities from the Mason Jar Science book. We are making a mason jar barometer, and a tornado. If Little Man is interested in more, you can make a fun water cycle activity using a storage bag.

Friday: Gardening
Book: Seeds
Math: If weather permits, use things in my flower garden, or in the yard to make different patterns and shapes. You can also use seeds for counting and adding.
Phonics: Since we will hopefully be outside, use sidewalk chalk to spell words we have been working on. Draw flowers, fruits, and veggies around it, to make it more fun!
Art: Use the things you collected in the yard to make an art collage!
Science: Plant a Sunflower
Bonus: Learn about farming. We have books and puzzles that he can look at and do during quiet time. We may do some research on baby chicks and raising chickens since this is an interest of his right now.

I am putting together a spring themed basket with even more books and activities than I mentioned today. Be sure you are following me on Instagram to learn more! Also, if you follow me on Pinterest, I am adding pins to my Spring time unit that includes even more ideas that you can do. If you decide to create your own unit, I would loved to be tagged and see it! I am also doing a little basket and having spring ideas for Baby Girl. You will also find this on Facebook and Instagram.

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