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.
This is going to be a cumulative post for every year we home school. We've been homeschooling since Monkey was a tot, starting with sign language and "everyday learning". Our first year of homeshooling was when he was 2 years old, I used the Letter of the Week curriculum until he lost interest. After he lost interest, I used various resources including Hubbard Cupboard , Confessions of a Homeschooler preschool , various resources for tot books . When he was 3, I used Montessori resources including Montessori at Home , and 1+1+1=1 . Monkey turned 4 and kept wanting more, I got tired of the hours I spent planning and preparing for each week, so I started buying curriculum, it isn't necessary, but for me to have extra time, it is SO worth it! Scroll down until you view the year you want to see. 2012-2013 School year Monkey's school Main curriculum For our main curriculum, we are using Weaver Interlock , a Christian unit study that uses the bible les
End of another school week! It was so beautiful today and the mosquitos weren't bad so we had school outside today in between playtime. We've been using the ABC Find It sheets to play games for phonic practice, today we used sweet gum tree balls to cover them as he found each one from the clue card. Shaving cream for cleaning and writing practice was a GREAT idea... until I left the room to clean up and found shaving cream all over their bodies and our air purifier, whoops! Our local teacher and parent resource center has a TON of great shoebox workboxes available for rent, the first one I rented has two colored wooden balls attached to a short dowel rod, you have to push it through half way into the hole in the middle so you can slide it to one of the sides, Froggy really enjoys this! We use the Raising Rock Stars for phonics reinforcement, we're going through the alphabet a final time before starting the next level of a reading curriculum. We use this kinderga
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