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7.1.2008
Animal Science Notebook
Here's a little sample of the activities we're doing during our summer animal study:
 
So far, both girls seem to be having fun with it. We're keeping it really informal by reading lots of books and doing coloring pages like these. In the fall we might get into a bit more detail, but for now, this is all they really need to know. I certainly don't want it to become a chore. I want to make sure that they are really having fun with this.
K wants to study jaguars next, but we're going to save those until this fall when we do our study of the rain forest. H doesn't really seem to care what animals we study, as long as there is something to color!
(By the way, all of those pages are from K's official Animal Science Book. H doesn't have one, because I'm really doing this in a minimalist way for her. She's only 3, but come fall, I might get her a notebook, too. But only if she is showing an interest in having one.)
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6.10.2008
Summer School Begins!
My dear daughter is driving me nuts trying to get me to start school early (ever since I received her Saxon Math 1 materials in the mail)!!! So, yesterday we started a short summer school session. We are going to be doing some animal study, working in her Kumon books (we're working on the one with the numbers from 1 to 70 right now), and using the Bible curriculum. We'll use Monday, Wednesday, and Friday as school days.
We are using the 1st grade Bible LIFEPAC from Alpha Omega. Yesterday was our first lesson, but what I've seen so far is really nice. The worktext approach is perfect for K. We will just do that at whatever pace seems to keep her satisfied until we're getting ready to start the official school year. If we have to get the 2nd grade box early, that's what we'll do.
We also started studying lemurs today. We read about them and filled out half of a form that I made for our animal study. It has a place to write in the name of the animal, its habitat, what it eats, what type of animal it is (i.e. mammal, bird, reptile, etc.), and other facts that K or H might find interesting. After we did that, they each colored a picture of a lemur that we found on Enchanted Learning. We will be adding these pages to some of the the other pages in K's Animal Science Book.
Come August, we will be getting a little more in depth into our animal study. K wants to learn about the different habitats, so I did some research and found some Biome Worksheets (also on Enchanted Learning's website). We'll use these, along with a world map, to learn about the habitats for a couple days, then we'll spend the next few weeks learning about different kinds of animals that live in that habitat. I hope to spend 30 weeks on animal study, six of which will be about different habitats.
Hopefully, the summer school will make my daughter happy enough to allow me to finish our plans for our other subjects!
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5.29.2008
Planning Away
Well, we are getting closer and closer to having all of our actual teaching materials gathered for next year. I have made my order through Rainbow Resource and that leaves McRuffy as being the only thing I have left to order. I plan on ordering those materials in July, giving me just about a month to look though them and add to my lesson book. Then, the week before we actually start, we will go shopping for all the supplies we will need: clay, paper, pencils, a new whiteboard, etc., etc.
The materials that I have received so far look really nice. I can hardly wait to jump into everything. I thought that planning all of this on my own would be overwhelming, but really I rather enjoy it! I can hardly wait to start the year and see if all come together.
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5.18.2008
Curricula for the upcoming year
As we continue finishing up this school year, I am starting to get all of our curricula collected for next year. Here is what K will be doing for her 1st grade year:
Math - Saxon 1
Bible - Alpha Omega LIFEPAC 1
Language Arts - McRuffy 1st Grade Phonics and Reading (also includes spelling and handwriting)
History - Story of the World Volume 1 - Ancient Times
Science - Lots of animal study and notebooking/lapbooking, followed by learning about the human body and plants later in the year
Music - Music for Little Mozarts, Alfred's Kid's Drum Course
Art - Lots of drawing from simple drawing books (starting with Diego and rainforest animals, of course!)
H's schoolwork will be as follows:
Math - Saxon K (Some of this will be review, as she has joined us for this quite a bit throughout this year)
Language Arts - McRuffy Kindergarten Phonics and Reading (also includes spelling and handwriting)
History - She will be sitting in on this with us, but will not need to do all of the activities that K does
Science - Again, she will be participating with us
Music - Music for Little Mozarts, Alfred's Kid's Drum Course
Of course, H's schedule for next year is contingent upon her abilities. I'm sure that she will not take to the reading right away, even though she has asked to learn to read. Given her learning style, I think some more educational play may be needed for a while still. I want to get the Hot Dots Phonics Fun program for her to play around with until she's ready for something more formal.
So, the next few months are for gathering curricula, looking over curricula, and preparing my lesson plans for the first couple weeks of school. Our target start date this year is going to be August 18th, so the countdown is on!
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3.18.2008
Ayudeme!
Well, we're getting closer to winding down our school year. The weather is starting to show signs of a warming trend as we work our way steadily closer to springtime. H is really starting to participate more and more in her school activities. She did about 6 workbook pages the other day that consisted of some tracing and coloring objects certain colors. I was very impressed, since she doesn't have the same love of workbooks that her sister has.
We have added something new into our school over the course of the last few weeks. I call them "free days." They are not just totally free, as the name implies. It's basically for when I have a lot of extra things to prepare, kind of like a teacher curriculum day. I tell K it's a free day and she gets to choose between math and reading. They I give her one of two workbooks and let her go. The first day I did this she sat and did over 20 pages in one sitting! It was mostly easy stuff, like copying and extending patterns, circling the larger object, circling the object that holds more, etc. She sure had fun. She gets so excited now when I tell her it's a free day. Yesterday we had a free day and she did the entire chapter on measurements and fractions. Some of the concepts were new to her, so I had to help her a bit, but for the most part, she completed it on her own.
K is still working on her animal science notebook. She has almost all of the Go Diego Go! animals printed off and colored, and she has found a now spot to get pictures of animals. I think by the time we get to 1st grade science next year she will already have studied the 20 animals we're supposed to study! She did say something to me the other day about wanting to pet a baby penguin. I told her maybe someday she could be a zookeeper and get to do that. Later she came up to me and asked me how to become a zookeeper. I told her and she seemed to really like the idea. Who knows, maybe she really will be an animal rescuer like Diego someday! Ayudeme! (<-- Translated to Help me! in Spanish!)
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2.25.2008
New Material
Today we started some new material with H. We have the Learn Every Day Reading and Writing book and Preschool Ultimate Skill Builder book, both published by Learning Horizons. The Reading and Writing book is the same one that we did over the spring and summer with K. However, she only got about halfway through before we jumped into Calvert. I will do the same thing with H: I will let her continue doing pages from these books until I feel that she is ready to start something a little more formal. I can already tell she is not the lover of workbooks like her sister is. We did one page, front and back, before she was ready to be done. K used to do two or three pages, front and back, and then still ask for more! But that is the big difference between their individual learning styles.
Here's H's page. I held her hand to help her trace and draw the A's:
 K did the P page in her Letters and Sounds book today, completed a reading page, practiced her handwriting, and worked on some memorization. She was very focused today and able to work quickly without any hassles. It only took us about an hour to get through our lesson, and we covered 2-1/2 reading lessons. Now she is making a Diego animal science book with some pages she printed from the internet. I really can't complain about all the ink and paper when she's learning about emperor penguins and three-toed sloths, can I?
Here are the P page and two pages from the animal science book:
 
Apparently my scanner likes to distort crayon. The macaw's head and tail were red and the anaconda was a light green.
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2.23.2008
Looking Ahead
Well, it is that time of year when I start researching for the following school year. I already have most of the curricula picked out for next year. I am still undecided on what we will use for science. However, I do have some ideas, so it is just a matter of making a decision. I even have the materials that H will be starting to work on next week and throughout the beginning of next year.
This last week went by very smooth. I even had an extra body for one school day, but she sat at the table and colored with H while we worked through our math and two reading lessons. Then we had an activity that all three girls were able to participate in. We still are not quite to the halfway point in our Calvert K program, but we are very close and are clipping along quite well. We are exactly where we are supposed to be in the Saxon math. I think we have, for the first time since before Thanksgiving, gotten back into our groove.
One big moment this week was when H participated in an exercise involving drawing a line between capital and lowercase levels. A few of them took her a few seconds to figure out, but for the most part she was able to match them correctly. Not bad for a not-quite-3-year-old!
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2.13.2008
Public School v Homeschool
Here is a link that I found regarding test scores of public school students and homeschool students. I am considering printing out a copy to keep with all of our other homeschool information, so I have quick access to it when I feel the need to quote some statistics. As you read through it, do keep in mind, however, that this study was done in 1997.
Home Schooling Achievement
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2.10.2008
Happy New Year!!! (late)
Well, needless to say, we've been pretty busy around here lately. We just got done with a birthday party, where everything went really smooth. I certainly do love when that happens!
We are still working along our Calvert path, trying to finish up the Kindergarten year. With K being on a 1st grade reading level, we're doubling and tripling up on the lessons, based on the content. I think once we hit the part where we're supposed to pull out the beginning readers, there will be more sections that we can just cut out. I'm not going to cut out any of the reading concepts like main idea, characters, etc., since those are not things that she can learn on her own. However, anything to do with the actual reading, like beginning and ending letter sounds can be cut out entirely. She does not even have an interest in www.starfall.com anymore.
H is now using Hot Dots to work on her letters, colors, and shapes. She pretty much knows them, but since she is such an independent learner, she likes to just sit with them and answer the questions. Hot Dots are like interactive flash cards. The possible answers all have a black dot near them. You use the Hot Dot pen to answer the question, and it tells you if you are right or not. Klikes to use them, too. I am considering getting the Phonics set to use for H's next phase of learning, and K wants to get some money ones.
We are once again going to be starting gymnastics. K will be starting at the end of the month. She went through a period where she was pretending to be ballerina. I asked her if she wanted ballet instead of gymnastics, and she chose gymnastics. I think she will be really excited to get started back in it. H was going to start, too, but we have decided that we will wait until she is a little bit closer to 3. K didn't start until after she was 3, and it seemed like a good time to start. So, maybe they will both go to the next session.
K is involved in a Valentine Exchange that someone started for students using the Calvert curriculum. We have 41 valentines that we are sending out. (That pretty much means that Daddy and I are addressing the envelopes and K is signing her name and putting a sticker on the back of the envelope.) Originally, I had planned on sending the stickers to the other students, but the first envelopes got sealed before I remembered. I think so far we've received 3 tatoos with our valentines. K is really liking those. She's never had one before the first one arrived, so they're her new favorite thing. I will post some pictures of our valentine wall once all of the valentines come in.
Well, for now I'm out of here. I'll be back soon with more updates.
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11.9.2007
A Link To Some Interesting Perspectives
11.9.2007
Making Up For Lost Time... Sort Of
Well, we are finally back on track. All visitors are gone and all bodies are healthy. Well, H's getting another cold, but her education is still in the informal stage.
Things are going really good on the home front these days. I am starting to get the balancing act of running the home and working from the home down. I do not get as much work done as I would like, but I'm sure that will come with time. The hospital that I type for usually sends its work to Cobb late, around 10:00 or so. My ideal working times are from around 7:00 until around 11:00. This does not usually work out, so I have to just take less work. But, at least I'm making some money, even if it's not quite as much as I want.
Today we will be doing Calvert lesson 29. The last several lessons have gone very smooth, and I anticipate the same today. It has been a good school week, overall. We have been talking about different kinds of jobs. We have covered train conductors and engineers, news reporters, teachers, and doctors and nurses. Called the discussion part of the lesson, this seems to be something else besides science that K is not interested in. However, this week's science lesson went pretty good. She got to draw the appropriate missing parts of a face and then tell me what sense they were for. She'll do pretty much anything if I involve drawing. I think Miss Meghan at the library did a much better job covering senses than I was able to do! At least she held K's attention.
Her reading lessons have covered y and n this week, so we have also discussed yes and no and different ways to say them with body language. Today will cover more of that. All in all, there seems to be a lot of unnecessary review for her, but if she is not complaining, I am not. As long as she finds it fun, I will review all day. If there is something that looks like it would be frustrating to drill into her brain any more, I will skip it, but for the most part she doesn't mind repeating things. She is doing almost all of her own cutting now. She does pretty good, even if it does take a while. (It gives me time to take notes on her progress!)
We have started a "Me Book" this week, too. So far she has drawn a blanket, spaghetti and mac 'n' cheese for her favorite food, Logan and Isis, and Mommy and H. I'll try to take some pictures of that when she is all done with it.
In math, we have done introductions to bar graphs and ordinal place this week. Pretty easy stuff. I'm waiting for something a bit more challenging, but at least with the hands-on approach that Saxon provides, K has not been bothered by the ease of the lessons. I have been told not to skip anything with Saxon, as it will all be needed toward the end of the year and in 1st grade. The daily calendar discussion is starting to get a little more involved. Still easy, but they have added the spelling of the day of the week and the month. And we're on an ABB pattern this month instead of just an AB pattern. K has been doing patterns for so long she hates doing anything with an AB pattern. We were working on that with a lesson last week, and she insisted that she be allowed to use more than two colors. So I let her do an ABC pattern instead. It made the lesson go smoother. I'm sure it will all become challenging once I can just get caught up to the level that she is at.
Right now we are holding off on gymnastics until after the holidays. This decision is part financial, and part schedule. Daddy is going away for business both this month and next month, so it just didn't make sense to sign up for the current session. Not to mention that extra Christmas cash will come in handy! We are, however, keeping busy with Sunday school and library activities. K goes to story time on Mondays, which involves reading, singing, and a craft. H goes to lapsit on Tuesdays, which is reading, singing, and playing with toys. They also went to a Halloween party, where they got to play games and make some crafts. That was fun, but probably something they would have liked better if they were just a tad bit older. Next year will probably be good for it.
Well, that is the rundown of where we are at. It looks like everything social and educational is intact. Until next time...
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10.24.2007
Trials and Tribulations
The time is really sneaking away from us lately. We are making good progress, especially considering we are 2 years ahead of the game, but I still wish we were able to stay on track a little better. When we have our lessons, they go very smoothly about 95% of the time. Even with H sitting in and absorbing as much as her little sponge will hold. However, we are sick again, and have not been able to get anything done this week yet. Here it is Wednesday, and we have yet to even mention school. Both of the girls have had coughs and off-and-on fevers. We have already been to the doctor, and it's a viral thing, so we just have to wait it out. In the meantime, I am prepping some of the materials that we will be needing for upcoming lessons. Our next Saxon math lesson is about making a matrix, so my job as teacher is to cut out 36 shapes to use for the lesson. That could take me a while!
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10.4.2007
We Are So Blessed
We have really been blessed on our homeschool journey. The only people who have objected or had concerns in any way have been our neighbor and a woman that I randomly met at the library one day. Other than that, people have been more than supportive! I know a lot of homeschooling families have friends and family that are dead set against the whole idea. But we have truly been blessed with loved ones who realize that this is our decision and that we would never do anything to bring negative consequences to our children. Surprisingly, a large number of people have told us that they think we are making the best choice for our children. It all adds up to assure us that we really have made the right decision for our family.
As far as our curriculum year, we have been doing extremely well with the homeschooling so far. K really loves it, and H probably sits in about 40% of the time. Holly actually asked me to do school the other day. It was so darn cute! We had a couple weeks of illness to various family members, but we have been quite productive this week. Today we did most of Calvert Lesson #17 and the reading of Lesson #18. The reading and the math are K's favorites, so we did an extra long reading lesson today. We're going to work on some of the other activities tonight and tomorrow.
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9.21.2007
Current Progress
We have only had 1 1/2 lessons this week. K is sick, so I have been having her rest. We did do a half lesson on Wednesday, because she specifically asked to do one, but then I had her stop because she looked so tired. She has been doing extremely good work on her lessons, though! She really is loving school. She gets so excited when I say it is time for school.
The calendar part of the Saxon math is boring for her, since it's the same thing every day. I think it was the third day of math that she blurted out all of the answers to the questions I hadn't even asked yet. We still don't have our teddy bear counters, so there have been a few parts that we have had to skip from math. But she liked making a pictograph comparing the girls to boys in our family, and she still loves to make her patterns with her pattern blocks.
She is really starting to get some of the reading concepts down. We have recently discussed characters and summarizing. She is pretty good about telling a story back, but sometimes she prefers to change it up and make it her own. She is very good at making up alternate endings to stories. Her reading book has some pages that have lines for tracing and writing out words. The lesson manual says that I should write this stuff in for her, unless she wants to try it on her own. Of course, since she is already writing, she does it herself. There are also times that the lesson manual says I should read a title or a sentence to her from her book. However, for the most part she reads these herself. They are things like "Down and Up" and "Run, run as fast as you can!" She is also learning to make sentences. We have word cards and a period card that she uses to make sentences out of simple words. She understands that a capital starts a sentence and that a period ends it. The next couple of lessons cover the difference between asking and telling sentences.
The one thing that she seems to have a problem with is science. She does not seem to have an interest in me talking about science topics, but does like to do the hands-on activities. She did surprise me with some of the science facts that she retained, though. Her current library storytime theme is the senses, which we are currently covering in school. There is a cute story about this that I will have her Daddy recount.
H has been working in some of her books, but does not really like to do them with a crayon. She prefers to have me ask her to count something or find the blue square on the page. She is not ready to start writing yet. Her coloring is getting much better, though. She is starting to completely color a shape, instead of just put a scribble in it and move on. I was trying to have her trace the shape of a 2 with her finger the other day, using some alphabet toys that we have, but she did not want to do that. It was towards the end of our lesson together, so I think she was just ready to play.
Well, that about sums up our first four weeks. So far, I will say that this is really working out. K is learning, H is getting used to the process, and I am getting into a routine. If things continue on the current path, we will have a very productive school year.
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9.8.2007
Bring-your-daddy-to-school Day
We have decided that once a month or so will be Bring-your-daddy-to-school Day. This will be a planned Saturday, where Daddy will sit in on a day's lesson. The girls will get to show Daddy what they are learning, and Daddy can participate in the learning process. This will allow me to have some of his opinions on things that I may be missing while I'm concentrating on teaching. It will also allow me to show him exactly what goes on in a "typical" school day.
So, today was the first of these special days. We had the tree project to finish up, so he got to help me design the trunk the night before. For lessons 2-7, K scoured magazines looking for pictures of certain colors to glue to her tree leaves. I cut them out, she glued. Then, today we got to take the six colored leaves and make them into a big tree. Here are some pictures:
The whole week was actually quite productive for school this week. My plan of splitting the day up into a morning lesson and an afternoon lesson seems to have done the trick, as far as K's attention span. There are still some parts that she does not seem to enjoy as much as others, but for the most part, she is very enthusiastic when I say it's time for school. We did two days of school in the kitchen, and she was extremely excited that now she has TWO schoolrooms!
For three days we worked on different reading concepts, such as prediction and order. One art project that went along with that was to draw three separate pictures of what you do during your day, in order. Here's what K drew:
1. Sausage breakfast with Daddy.
2. Enjoy my family while playing.
3. Go to bed.
Here's a video of her drawing #2:
Drawing Daddy
And finally, here are some other pictures from the week. I gave her the pattern blocks to play with for a few minutes, and instantly she made patterns with them. This was not prompted in any way! Notice they are not just in an AB pattern, either. (Can you see how proud I am of my smart little cookie???)
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9.7.2007
My Eager Learners
9.4.2007
Already adjusting
We have finished our "morning school" for today. After last week, I realized that K works much better before our recess break, and not so good after it. With the addition of the Saxon math this week, I decided to try a new approach. We will go through our before-recess lessons and then call it for the morning. Then, when H takes her nap after lunch, we will finish the day's lessons. This should give her enough of a break to feel mentally refreshed. She just gets really antsy about halfway through, and when I take H up for her nap, it's usually quiet time for K, anyway, so it just makes sense to try it this way. I will still give her the half hour of required down time, and then, instead of playing on Daddy's computer, she will finish up her school lessons. We will try this for the week, and see how it goes.
Today, the girls got to mix red and yellow fingerpaint together to make orange. Oh, how they love their paint! I made some fingerpaint with a recipe that Calvert had in the lesson manual. It works pretty well. They really enjoyed making a mess of their hands!
The math lesson went wonderful today. It was probably only about 10 minutes long, but it was the first lesson, so I wasn't expecting it to be overy difficult. H missed the first half, but showed up just in time to play with the patterm blocks and build a tower with them! The first half of our school day was about an hour today.
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9.2.2007
An Interesting Read
8.30.2007
Anticipated Arrival
The manipulatives that we needed to be able to start math as scheduled arrived yesterday afternoon. I was a bit concerned because they were ordered on the 16th of August and they didn't ship until the 24th. Apparently, a couple of the items are on backorder and they usually wait one week for them to arrive before sending out the other items. This was not a problem, except that I did not pay for expedited shipping, and the estimated shipping was 7 to 10 business days!
So, I called on Friday to get tracking info, and was told that they wouldn't have that until Monday. I called on Monday, and the lady told me it looked like it was still sitting in the warehouse and that UPS apparently had not picked it up yet. Tuesday, before I even had a chance to call, I received an email with my tracking info. Imagine my surprise when I checked the tracking and saw that it was expected the next day!
At any rate, we got the materials on time. The items that are on backorder are not needed yet, so we are good to go on Tuesday as planned!
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8.29.2007
And so the journey begins...
I am sorry that I have been slacking. I have been doing a lot of studying, as I am taking my final this weekend. I am also sorry that I will not be able to post any pictures at this time, as I am having issues with my camera and/or iPhoto. I'm not quite sure which one yet.
So here's a recap of the first few days of school:
Day 1: We got up, made our beds, had breakfast, brushed our hair and took a few pictures.
Then we were off to school! First of all, I went through a brief synopsis of what school is going to be like this year, so that K would kind of understand that it is different from just doing workbook pages like we've been doing for the last year and a half. Then we did the Pledge of Allegiance, went through what day of the week it is, and read a book.
Since we're not doing the Calvert math, our Saxon math is starting next week. They do a calendar review in their lessons each day, and it is set to start in September, so I decided to take the first week to get used to the other things before adding in the math.
Next, to start the reading part of our lesson, I had K look through her reading book, called Rainbows. I was looking through the teacher's manual, and when I looked up, she had turned to page 5 and was doing the activity on it! She was doing it correctly, too! So I tried to explain to her that she can't just skip ahead in the book, and that she would be doing that page in a few days. The reading lesson consisted of the poem The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson. During the second lesson, the student closes his/her eyes and imagines that he/she is on a swing. Then, the student draws a picture based on what was imagined. K drew grass, vava (lava in K-speak), a mountain for the vava to come out of, shapes and lines, and an owie. I have a picture of that, which will be posted when I can get the pictures from camera to computer!
After the reading lesson, we started making kites. We have not finished them, because I have to go to the store to get some clear tape that is actually strong enough to hold them together.
H participated in almost all of the day's activities. She got up few times and went to the play side of the room, but she listened to the story, drew a picture, and started making a kite.
Our entire lesson lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes, including a 15-minute break in the middle. Almost as soon as we got the playroom back in order, K had her stuffed animals out getting them ready for school!
Day 2: Lesson 2 started without H. She woke up as K and I were making our way to the school room, so she watched Clifford and ate some cereal while school started.
We started out with the review of the days of the week, the Pledge of Allegiance, and two stories. We read My Crayons Talk and Mary Wore Her Red Dress. Then we made a red leaf, whose purpose will be explained on a later date.
Then our reading lesson consisted of going over the letter M, and reading Goodnight Moon. Of course, all of this letter sound stuff is review for my little smartie, so we just worked through it quickly. She finally got to write in her Rainbows book, but it was just underlining things that start with M. She did get to do a worksheet, though, which she just really loves.
Then we had our first science lesson. We were supposed to go through the first few pages and discuss them, but I could tell she was getting kind of tired and antsy, so we just went through them quickly. I plan on sitting down with her one evening and reading through the stuff in that section. I think her next science lesson is tomorrow, so maybe we'll do that tonight.
Then we got up and did an exercise of making ourselves go in different ways: running, hopping, skipping. That was followed by making other things go, like her ride-on turtle, H's pull-along dog, etc.
H kept coming in to see if she was missing anything, but mostly just watched Clifford until we finished. When the lesson was done, I asked K what her favorite part was, and she said that she liked the books that I read.
Today, the lesson was an hour and a half.
Day 3: We did our morning ritual, with H this time. Today we did the blue leaf for our leaf project.
Reading was more of the M review, but K finally got to write some letters and circle some objects on page 3 of Rainbows! We had another cutting and gluing project to work on with Ms, and then we got to start on her Sounds and Letters book. The object is to draw pictures that start with M or find pictures in magazines to glue in there. She decided to draw and wanted to draw "Mom." Now, she's supposed to draw and then I'm supposed to write in what she drew that starts with M. However, she wrote "mom" on the page before drawing the picture. Then, when she finished drawing "mom," complete with brown hair, she drew "me." I will have a picture of this amazing drawing soon, as well!
There was supposed to be a Music Break lesson today, but I was having iPod issues in addition to my iPhoto issues. So... we're going to try to resolve that this afternoon and listen to our songs.
Today's lesson was about an hour and a half again. H participated in most of it.
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