School time has been getting progressively better, especially this week. Attitudes are better all around (me included!) and things are starting to run smoothly. Today I decided to document our day with a few pictures. Mainly for proof that today actually worked.
Heart and teddy bear shaped buckwheat pancakes with vanilla soy milk pudding made from scratch.
My breakfast: vanilla soy milk pudding with carrot cake buckwheat pancakes.
Impromptu bath time (the pudding was messy!). We read the book and at the end I gave them their own blue ice "boats" in the bath water.
Letter Ee tic tac toe. I made it in word with clip art. Fancy, I know.
Letter x xylophone game from Confessions of a Homeschooler. We used playing cards instead of a die. He had to draw one card at a time, count the shapes, then find the corresponding xylophone bar.
Color by number sight word from 1+1+1=1. Monkey hardly ever uses markers, I was impressed that he actually colored the entire word instead of just the number like he usually does. He chose a wonderful scribble technique today, very artsy.
We also listened to the letter X song, Monkey enjoyed saying the phonetic sound (which he was previously saying /k/ instead of /ks/) and dancing around.
The last song we listened to was the ABC Bunny song.
Froggy has been doing great with entertaining himself after we have calendar time. Here are a few of the things he did today.
He currently gets to choose what he wants to do from tot activities I leave out for him. He enjoyed the peg board today.
Another activity Froggy chose today was the key and shape sorter toy.
Monkey took a break before we had reading time and made a birthday cake with the peg board.
Then Monkey showed Froggy how to use the Montessori sound blocks.
Froggy made his own picture while Monkey worked on coloring his sight word.
Ever feel like you’ve just kind of, you know, “been there,
done that, got the shirt”? Some days, I really feel like this has been our motto
for our homeschooling experience- and we’ve only be doing this for a short
6-ish years! You see, that’s what happens when you are wracked by self-doubt,
Pinterest plan, and read WAY too many blogs and books of homeschooling before
you even pop out kiddo #1.
I have run our homeschool like a public school, over
scheduled and over filled our days, relaxed and over relaxed, checked off
lists, counted hours, and saved too much only to realize not only was it not
necessary, but also not working. My problem? I wasn’t letting my curriculum
work for me, I was working for it. I was failing to trust that I was doing a
good enough job and tried to do too much.
Yes, I was one of those moms.
Yes, I spent way too much time planning “the perfect” school
day. Pinterest used to threaten to give me thumb osteoarthritis with all of the
scrolling for the best ideas …
It has been a long time since I've done one of my "day in the life" posts, so I thought I would take a TON of pictures and instead of doing the timeline thing like I used to do, just tell you about what we did.
This is all from October 22, one of the first days that I started using play breaks in between each work box or activity that we do during the day instead of play breaks in between every three work boxes. It has worked SO much better!
All right, on to the day!
We didn't do our calendar notebook or Raising Rock Star Verses this day and instead jumped to work box two which is All About Reading level 1. I had some worksheets that went along with our review, so instead of using flash cards we did a cut and paste activity.
We're reading through the Bob Books and using the printable packs to go along with those. We practiced our -At family words, read some books, then had a play break!
Monkey wanted to make a map with lots of treasure hidden, I LOVE the way he t…
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