A new approach for the New Year

My daughter is 6 years old and we have been homeschooling this year due to Covid 19. We have been using Harcourt Family Learning Complete Curriculum for 1st Grade. I like the curriculum but she hates the pictures in the book and complains about them daily. On Mondays we work on reading and I can't remember the last time we have had a Monday with no crying until today. I decided since she hates the pictures so much I would make worksheets with characters that she loves from Minecraft, Gravity Falls, Spongebob, etc. and she did them with very little complaining. So I guess I have a part time unpaid job of making worksheets now. Since I am making them anyway I thought I would share them with the world. Keep in mind I am not a teacher but if you would like to use these for your kiddos feel free. They were made in Google Docs with clip art that I found online.

Today we did reading worksheets with a Minecraft theme. Feel free to use it and let me know if it helps. Here are page 2, and page 3. 

We also started a Nature Journal today. I decided that we would go outside and find pine cones in our yard then bring them back inside to draw and write about. This activity also went over pretty well. We put the date and temperature on our page and measured one of the pine cones. So that covers some art, math, and science and it was fun for both of us. 

We read some books and played math dice. She decided to make some math worksheets for me today too, so that was pretty funny. At the end of the school day she said "that was a short school day". It was just as long as any other school day but everything just went a lot better with the modified worksheets and new approach.