This report is a little late, but I wanted to get it down before I forgot what we did. We had a full week, and aside from a doctor appointment that took all afternoon on Friday and Adelaide's suffering from teething, our week was pretty much the same as usual.
Math:
Lydia is solidly into addition within 10 right now. She seems to have a very basic understanding of what is going on, so she's continuing to work in both EM (pages 40-47) and Miquon focusing on it. She can do an addition problem by herself using c-rods. She's really loving math right now.
Reading:
She's been struggling with beginning blends and words that end with "s", so I've decided to pause and spend the next while on reviewing and solidifying what she's learned up until now. This is a good point to pause because she's almost done with all her basic blending skills and I don't want anything to get in her way when things start getting more complicated. We're using a combination of iPad apps and Reading Bear to accomplish this right now, although we might go back and re-read some sections of OPGTR. I think I won't worry about progressing forward until after Christmas though.
We have also started a family read aloud (Daddy included!). A few times since we got married, Tyler and I have read A Christmas Carol together around Christmas time. This year we wanted to include the girls, so we bought this version with beautiful illustrations and are reading it in place of a bed time story nightly. Lydia seems to like it and asks if we are going to read "Scrooge" again, so it is a success so far.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Weekly Report: Week 14
We ended up taking Thanksgiving week off. I wasn't in the mood to do school and our schedule was all messed up. We had a great Thanksgiving at my in-law's house and got back in the swing of things this week, doing a full week's worth of schoolwork!
On Monday night for Family Night, we made apple-cinnamon ornaments for our tree. We used this recipe. I remember making one of these when I was about 8 years old at a church activity and that ornament smelled so good for years. Since we had to keep all our breakable ornaments off our tree this year because of all the little ones, we thought this would be a fun activity for our poor little tree.
Math:
This week we focused on number bonds. Number bonds are basically just addition, but they are presented in such a way that they attempt to help the child understand that 10 is just made up of 4 and 6 or that 7 is made up of 2 and 2 and 3. Lydia loved number bonds. Every day this week, when we started math, she'd tell me, "number bonds are [my] favorite." Because she enjoyed it so much, we got a lot done. She did pages 28-39 in Essential Math B. In the workbook, it shows pictures of things to represent the numbers, but for every problem, we also did number bonds with the c-rods and for a few problems we used our regular linking cubes as well. This isn't the first time this concept will be demonstrated to her like this, so I'm not expecting mastery, but she seems to like it and mostly understand what is going on.
In Miquon, we "made" numbers. The worksheets had a number at the top, say 7 and all the addition problems were trying to figure out how to make 7s. Because these were very similar to number bonds (but technically super simple algebra), we did several of them for different numbers and then today started actual addition problems! I see a lot of practice in our future, but she seems to be starting to grasp it all.
Reading:
Lydia finished lesson 49 of OPGTR, so she'll start 50 next time we sit down. She seems to be really understanding all that we have done so far. She can now read words like "gifts" and "stuff." I'm afraid because in a few lessons (lesson 54) she'll start digraphs and I think they will be considerably more challenging. I do she'll be up to the task, though. And she's already exceeding my expectations for her for this year. I was originally just going to be happy if she started to understand blending, and now it is looking like she will be reading on a first grade level or so by the end of the year!
Other:
We're still working on memorization. She is working hard on Proverbs 3:5-6 still, and I think she'll get it soon, maybe by the end of next week. We've stopped listening to Debussy because we're listening to Christmas music instead. This will be the first year the girls will really be excited about Christmas, so my goal is to help them understand the cultural aspects as they are fairly concrete. Christmas tree, Santa, Christmas songs, very basic Nativity story, etc. So far they are having a lot of fun with it and one of their favorite parts so far has been the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
 |
| Doing one of her Winnie the Pooh puzzles |
On Monday night for Family Night, we made apple-cinnamon ornaments for our tree. We used this recipe. I remember making one of these when I was about 8 years old at a church activity and that ornament smelled so good for years. Since we had to keep all our breakable ornaments off our tree this year because of all the little ones, we thought this would be a fun activity for our poor little tree.
 |
| Making cinnamon ornament |
Math:
This week we focused on number bonds. Number bonds are basically just addition, but they are presented in such a way that they attempt to help the child understand that 10 is just made up of 4 and 6 or that 7 is made up of 2 and 2 and 3. Lydia loved number bonds. Every day this week, when we started math, she'd tell me, "number bonds are [my] favorite." Because she enjoyed it so much, we got a lot done. She did pages 28-39 in Essential Math B. In the workbook, it shows pictures of things to represent the numbers, but for every problem, we also did number bonds with the c-rods and for a few problems we used our regular linking cubes as well. This isn't the first time this concept will be demonstrated to her like this, so I'm not expecting mastery, but she seems to like it and mostly understand what is going on.
In Miquon, we "made" numbers. The worksheets had a number at the top, say 7 and all the addition problems were trying to figure out how to make 7s. Because these were very similar to number bonds (but technically super simple algebra), we did several of them for different numbers and then today started actual addition problems! I see a lot of practice in our future, but she seems to be starting to grasp it all.
Reading:
Lydia finished lesson 49 of OPGTR, so she'll start 50 next time we sit down. She seems to be really understanding all that we have done so far. She can now read words like "gifts" and "stuff." I'm afraid because in a few lessons (lesson 54) she'll start digraphs and I think they will be considerably more challenging. I do she'll be up to the task, though. And she's already exceeding my expectations for her for this year. I was originally just going to be happy if she started to understand blending, and now it is looking like she will be reading on a first grade level or so by the end of the year!
 |
| Wearing their matching hoodies while playing with playdough. |
We're still working on memorization. She is working hard on Proverbs 3:5-6 still, and I think she'll get it soon, maybe by the end of next week. We've stopped listening to Debussy because we're listening to Christmas music instead. This will be the first year the girls will really be excited about Christmas, so my goal is to help them understand the cultural aspects as they are fairly concrete. Christmas tree, Santa, Christmas songs, very basic Nativity story, etc. So far they are having a lot of fun with it and one of their favorite parts so far has been the Charlie Brown Christmas special.
Friday, November 16, 2012
Weekly Report: Week 13
Our family had a great weekend and enjoyed the last of the beautiful weather. It still isn't too bad out, but it was great last weekend. Our week has been uneventful, but we did do school every day except for Wednesday. Oh, and Adelaide is officially crawling. She is still very inefficient at it, but it is there. I'm sure she'll get better in the next few weeks, too.
Math:
We started EM back up. This week has been mostly focused on counting to 20, which is something Lydia has no problem with thanks to Tally Tots. Even Eleanor has almost got it down thanks to that fun little app. Mostly I've been using this time to try to introduce the idea of place value, which will take a lot more time, I think. Anyways, Lydia finished p.25-27 in EM and did a few pages of Miquon. She almost has counting to 100 down, but it is going to take some more practice, I think.
Reading:
Lyddie is halfway through Lesson 48 in OPGTR. She is doing so well. I am really excited about her progress. She continues to get faster and to understand more and more blending concepts. A few more lessons and we'll be into digraphs! She has yet to read spontaneously, but she's doing well in our lessons, so I don't mind. It will come, I'm sure. She still wants me to tickle her at the end of every sentence, which seems to be fairly motivating. It has the side effect of helping her recognize when a sentence is done, too, so I'm not complaining!
Handwriting:
We started Handwriting Without Tears this week. I bought the preschool teacher's manual and workbook because her fine motor skills are about a year behind where they should be. So far she's loving it, even though we haven't even done any writing yet. This week we worked on getting her familiar with the 4 different shapes that make up every capitol letter as well as the words "vertical," "horizontal," and "diagonal."
HWT has wooden shapes you can buy, but I didn't think it was worth $30 for them, so I made my own from the template in the book. It took me over an hour to cut them all out of cardstock and then laminate them, but they turned out pretty well, I think. The 4 shapes that HWT teaches to make capitol letters are big curve, little curve, and big line, little line. I made 6-8 of each, and Lydia has enjoyed playing with them to make letters on her own.
We also have a chalk slate that I'll break out later, but this week was mostly just getting familiar with the shapes and learning about correct pencil grip.
Memorization:
Lydia finished "At the Seaside" and we started Proverbs 3:5-8. She is amazing. She's going to be almost done with what I planned for the whole year by Christmas. I'm going to have to sit down and come up with some more for her to do. She really loves doing memorization and we do it almost every day, even when we don't do the other subjects. I usually quiz her on it while I make lunch and she acts very proud of herself when she gets them right. Here's the list of we've done so far.
That's our week. We'll probably do an abbreviated week next week because Daddy won't have school on Thursday and Friday. I expect Monday-Wednesday to be business as usual, though.
Math:
We started EM back up. This week has been mostly focused on counting to 20, which is something Lydia has no problem with thanks to Tally Tots. Even Eleanor has almost got it down thanks to that fun little app. Mostly I've been using this time to try to introduce the idea of place value, which will take a lot more time, I think. Anyways, Lydia finished p.25-27 in EM and did a few pages of Miquon. She almost has counting to 100 down, but it is going to take some more practice, I think.
 |
| Coloring her math book. |
Lyddie is halfway through Lesson 48 in OPGTR. She is doing so well. I am really excited about her progress. She continues to get faster and to understand more and more blending concepts. A few more lessons and we'll be into digraphs! She has yet to read spontaneously, but she's doing well in our lessons, so I don't mind. It will come, I'm sure. She still wants me to tickle her at the end of every sentence, which seems to be fairly motivating. It has the side effect of helping her recognize when a sentence is done, too, so I'm not complaining!
Handwriting:
We started Handwriting Without Tears this week. I bought the preschool teacher's manual and workbook because her fine motor skills are about a year behind where they should be. So far she's loving it, even though we haven't even done any writing yet. This week we worked on getting her familiar with the 4 different shapes that make up every capitol letter as well as the words "vertical," "horizontal," and "diagonal."
HWT has wooden shapes you can buy, but I didn't think it was worth $30 for them, so I made my own from the template in the book. It took me over an hour to cut them all out of cardstock and then laminate them, but they turned out pretty well, I think. The 4 shapes that HWT teaches to make capitol letters are big curve, little curve, and big line, little line. I made 6-8 of each, and Lydia has enjoyed playing with them to make letters on her own.
 |
| Lydia likes it if I help her spell her name. |
We also have a chalk slate that I'll break out later, but this week was mostly just getting familiar with the shapes and learning about correct pencil grip.
Memorization:
Lydia finished "At the Seaside" and we started Proverbs 3:5-8. She is amazing. She's going to be almost done with what I planned for the whole year by Christmas. I'm going to have to sit down and come up with some more for her to do. She really loves doing memorization and we do it almost every day, even when we don't do the other subjects. I usually quiz her on it while I make lunch and she acts very proud of herself when she gets them right. Here's the list of we've done so far.
 |
| Watching big sister work on school. |
Friday, November 9, 2012
Weekly Report: Week 12.5
We had another week of school that had less school than I would have liked, so we'll call it week 12.5. We only did two days of school. I just couldn't get my act together. Oh well. We had a fun week though. We went to the lake to go see the last of the fall leaves and the girls enjoyed throwing sticks and rocks into the water. We also went to Grandma's house and then went "exploring" (a walk in a forest. Lydia insisted that we were exploring). On our "exploration," we saw a caterpillar and looked it it for a little while. Lydia now knows that butterflies come from caterpillars, so we'll call that science. Our weather has been in the high 60s/ low 70s this week, so we've been trying to enjoy it while it holds.
For math, Lydia worked on a few Miquon sheets. Like I mentioned last week, we're sticking with Miquon only for a little while. We'll come back to Essential Math in a few weeks. She also read some. And Lydia is coming along well with "At the Seaside." Another week or so and she'll have it down.
I've read most of the instructor manual for Handwriting Without Tears and I'm busy acquiring all the little odds and ends needed to get going on it (chalk, etc.) We'll officially start it next week.
And that's it for this week!
 |
| Eleanor at the lake. Notice Lydia's rock hitting the water |
 |
| Not Adelaide's best picture, but she had fun at the lake too. |
For math, Lydia worked on a few Miquon sheets. Like I mentioned last week, we're sticking with Miquon only for a little while. We'll come back to Essential Math in a few weeks. She also read some. And Lydia is coming along well with "At the Seaside." Another week or so and she'll have it down.
I've read most of the instructor manual for Handwriting Without Tears and I'm busy acquiring all the little odds and ends needed to get going on it (chalk, etc.) We'll officially start it next week.
And that's it for this week!
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Weekly Report: Week 12
This was a shorter than usual school week. We only did 3 days of actual school. I've been feeling unwell all and that combined with Halloween and my brother-in-law's wedding reception, it just didn't happen as much as I'd like. Halloween was great, though. Lydia and Eleanor did very well. This time last year, there was no way that I would have thought Lydia would be able to go trick-or-treating. But she did! I was so proud of her. She was very nervous and done with the experience after about 10 houses, but she still did it. At the end, when she said, "You want to go home and go to bed...but no shower!" I decided that we could call it quits. Eleanor kept going with Daddy for a little while longer, though.
Math:
Lydia did pages 15-24 of Essential Math B. She seems to be catching on, but I'm sort of getting the feeling that we are going too fast for her right now. She has a long attention span for math, but I think the concepts are moving quicker than she is capable of. So I think starting this week I'm going to back off EM for a little while and work primarily with Miquon, which has been sitting more on the back burner for a little while. Considering the fact that she has already finished Essential Math A, which was my goal for the whole year, I feel very comfortable with this decision. More than anything I want her to get a strong foundation and I just need to keep telling myself that there is no hurry.
Reading:
Lydia's attention span for reading is improving. Where before, it was all I could do to get her to read 2 pages of my homemade readers (approximately 2 sentences per page), now she's reading 4-5 pages per sitting. It helps that she's getting faster and starting to recognize words. She finished lessons 41-44 and we'll start on lesson 45 tomorrow. I've found a good motivator for her. She likes for me to tickle her whenever she gets at the end of a sentence.
Memorization:
Lyddie loves memorization time. She always tells me, "Don't forget memorization!" So we do this more often than normal school. Lydia started "At the Seaside" by Robert Louis Stevenson. She is reacting more to this poem than most. She recognized Robert Louis Stevenson from a previous poem she memorized, but I think she likes that it is about a beach and digging with a shovel.
I'll be figuring out and starting Handwriting Without Tears once I feel better. I've skimmed the manual and I'm excited to start some of the activities with Lydia.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Weekly Report: Week 11
This week was a bit unusual. On Sunday, all three girls were a little sick, so we stayed home from church. On Monday, they seemed better, but on Tuesday afternoon, the younger two had fevers and Lydia had a horrible sounding cough, so every day since we've stayed home. Lydia only went to one day of therapy and missed dance class. We also watched way to much tv. And by "we," I mean the girls. I don't mind letting them when they are sick, though.
On Sunday afternoon, the girls were well enough to "help" us make a jack-o-lantern. They were very excited to pick out the pumpkin on Saturday. Lydia and Eleanor seemed very nervous about touching the pumpkin "guts" and got bored watching Dad after about 5 minutes, but they were very excited with the end result when we put it on our front porch. Afterwards, we watched the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," which they loved and have watched several times since. This is the first time we've ever really attempted Halloween with them. Lydia has come such a long way in the last year that we are actually contemplating taking her trick-or-treating, something that we would never have thought possible last year. Next week, I'll post pictures of the girls in their costumes. Lydia is going to be Winnie the Pooh and Ellie is going to be a frog.
School continues to go on like it should. Every day during lunch, we work on calendar, memorization, and mapwork. Then after lunch and when Ellie is down for a nap, I ask Lydia is she would rather go down for a nap now, or do math. She always wants to do math, then reading. We usually spend an hour or so combined doing them and then she goes down for her required hour-long nap. This system is working really well for us right now.
I did decide to add a subject to our day. Lydia's fine motor skills are coming along nicely and I think she's ready to start some early handwriting practice. I decided on the program Handwriting Without Tears for her because it was designed by an occupational therapist and honestly, it looks like it was designed for her. I don't love the font, but I only plan to use it until her skills are good enough, and then we'll probably switch to another program. That probably won't be until 1st or 2nd grade, though, so we'll see. I've ordered my materials and they should get here in the next week or two. I'll write more about it then.
Math:
Lydia did pages 9-14 of Essential Math A. I think she has officially figured out the concept of less/more. It has been a long few weeks, but I feel proud that I was finally able to explain it to her in a way that she would understand. I realized that it wasn't an issue of comparing (so which is more, 7 or 9) but that she honestly didn't even know what the words "less" and "more" meant in relation to each other. So we spent and entire math lesson just taking the little people manipulatives I have and putting more in a group and less in that group. We did this back and forth and back and forth. After that, she seemed to catch on pretty quickly and today she did a less/more page in EMa and got them all correct! We worked on a greater than/lesser than Miquon sheet all week, but I think we'll probably repeat it now that she seems to be understanding better.
Reading:
Lydia's reading is coming along. This week she read her first 5-letter word, "bells." We're almost done with Lesson 41 in OPGTR, but she's now 20% done with Reading Bears and still a bit ahead in it than her OPGTR lessons. Her reading is getting quicker and she's starting to recognize a few common words without having to sound them out.
I went to a consignment sale this week and found this set of Nora Gaydos readers for $3 in like new condition. They are perfect for where Lydia is right now, so we'll be using them as extra practice. It was a nice score.
Memorization:
We've been working on solidifying her part for the Primary Program which is this Sunday. I'm a little bit nervous because she's been gone from church for two weeks and hasn't been able to practice at all. Tomorrow they are having a special practice, so I hope that will be enough for her. It will have to do, I guess!
On Sunday afternoon, the girls were well enough to "help" us make a jack-o-lantern. They were very excited to pick out the pumpkin on Saturday. Lydia and Eleanor seemed very nervous about touching the pumpkin "guts" and got bored watching Dad after about 5 minutes, but they were very excited with the end result when we put it on our front porch. Afterwards, we watched the "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," which they loved and have watched several times since. This is the first time we've ever really attempted Halloween with them. Lydia has come such a long way in the last year that we are actually contemplating taking her trick-or-treating, something that we would never have thought possible last year. Next week, I'll post pictures of the girls in their costumes. Lydia is going to be Winnie the Pooh and Ellie is going to be a frog.
School continues to go on like it should. Every day during lunch, we work on calendar, memorization, and mapwork. Then after lunch and when Ellie is down for a nap, I ask Lydia is she would rather go down for a nap now, or do math. She always wants to do math, then reading. We usually spend an hour or so combined doing them and then she goes down for her required hour-long nap. This system is working really well for us right now.
I did decide to add a subject to our day. Lydia's fine motor skills are coming along nicely and I think she's ready to start some early handwriting practice. I decided on the program Handwriting Without Tears for her because it was designed by an occupational therapist and honestly, it looks like it was designed for her. I don't love the font, but I only plan to use it until her skills are good enough, and then we'll probably switch to another program. That probably won't be until 1st or 2nd grade, though, so we'll see. I've ordered my materials and they should get here in the next week or two. I'll write more about it then.
Math:
Lydia did pages 9-14 of Essential Math A. I think she has officially figured out the concept of less/more. It has been a long few weeks, but I feel proud that I was finally able to explain it to her in a way that she would understand. I realized that it wasn't an issue of comparing (so which is more, 7 or 9) but that she honestly didn't even know what the words "less" and "more" meant in relation to each other. So we spent and entire math lesson just taking the little people manipulatives I have and putting more in a group and less in that group. We did this back and forth and back and forth. After that, she seemed to catch on pretty quickly and today she did a less/more page in EMa and got them all correct! We worked on a greater than/lesser than Miquon sheet all week, but I think we'll probably repeat it now that she seems to be understanding better.
Reading:
Lydia's reading is coming along. This week she read her first 5-letter word, "bells." We're almost done with Lesson 41 in OPGTR, but she's now 20% done with Reading Bears and still a bit ahead in it than her OPGTR lessons. Her reading is getting quicker and she's starting to recognize a few common words without having to sound them out.
I went to a consignment sale this week and found this set of Nora Gaydos readers for $3 in like new condition. They are perfect for where Lydia is right now, so we'll be using them as extra practice. It was a nice score.
Memorization:
We've been working on solidifying her part for the Primary Program which is this Sunday. I'm a little bit nervous because she's been gone from church for two weeks and hasn't been able to practice at all. Tomorrow they are having a special practice, so I hope that will be enough for her. It will have to do, I guess!
Friday, October 19, 2012
Weekly Report: Week 10
We went out of town last weekend to attend Tyler's little brother's wedding. As a result, we decided to go ahead and take off the whole week. It was a fun trip, and especially fun because Tyler rarely gets to go with us on trips because of his schedule. Lydia loved everything about it. She was very excited about every aspect of the airport, from the airplanes to the escalator.
The girls had matching dresses for the wedding and looked adorable.
And Lydia loves to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Sunday mornings on TV, and she loved being able to see the Tabernacle in person.
So while it was a ton of work and quite exhausting, it was a fun weekend.
In other news, Lydia finally got to take off her splint. The doctor's appointment was pretty fun too, because Tyler got to be her doctor! We happened to have an appointment on the one afternoon he does family medicine rotations, and his doctor was assigned to us. This was a great thing because Lydia is very nervous about doctors. So although the doctor Tyler was assigned to had to check her after Tyler was done, Daddy did a bulk of the work.
As for school, we had a slow start after our trip. We didn't do any school on Monday or Tuesday, but have gotten back into the swing of things since Wednesday.
Math:
We did pages 4-8 in Essential Math A and a page of Miquon. Lydia is still struggling a bit with less and more, but is getting better, so I'm moving on and just continuing to review the concept every day. We also continue to count to 100 with the abacus most days, as well as counting by 10s to 100. She still needs a fair amount of help, but she's improving.
Reading:
Still reading through the readers. She is almost done doing all the reading through Lesson 40 in OPGTR (should finish tomorrow), although concept-wise, she has pretty much finished through lesson 48 or 50, though she still needs lots and lots of practice and solidifying.
I've been horrible about read alouds. Besides scripture study and Daddy's night time story, I haven't been reading much to them. So this week I decided to read them The Hobbit. It should take a while, but I wanted to reread it before the movie comes out, so I'm motivated. They still don't get a whole lot out of chapter book read alouds, but I do want to make it a habit.
Memorization:
She's finished the 3rd Article of Faith and is now working on memorizing her part for the Primary Program at the end of October. She'll have to say this part in front of the whole church, so I want her to have it down to give her the best chance at success. The part she is memorizing is, "Jesus Christ is the perfect example for me. My favorite story about Jesus is when he helped Peter walk on the water."
Harvest Time:
We are going to do our activity tomorrow as a family. There is a place nearby with a corn maze, petting zoo, pumpkin patch, etc. We've been reading about autumn leaves and The Leaf Man especially has been a hit. I don't even think that this book is part of the curriculum. I just picked it up because it fit in the theme of leaves.
Miscellaneous:
Same as usual. Calendar, art, music, and pages 21-23 in Color, Count, and Cut.
And that was our lighter school week!
The girls had matching dresses for the wedding and looked adorable.
And Lydia loves to watch the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on Sunday mornings on TV, and she loved being able to see the Tabernacle in person.
So while it was a ton of work and quite exhausting, it was a fun weekend.
In other news, Lydia finally got to take off her splint. The doctor's appointment was pretty fun too, because Tyler got to be her doctor! We happened to have an appointment on the one afternoon he does family medicine rotations, and his doctor was assigned to us. This was a great thing because Lydia is very nervous about doctors. So although the doctor Tyler was assigned to had to check her after Tyler was done, Daddy did a bulk of the work.
As for school, we had a slow start after our trip. We didn't do any school on Monday or Tuesday, but have gotten back into the swing of things since Wednesday.
Math:
We did pages 4-8 in Essential Math A and a page of Miquon. Lydia is still struggling a bit with less and more, but is getting better, so I'm moving on and just continuing to review the concept every day. We also continue to count to 100 with the abacus most days, as well as counting by 10s to 100. She still needs a fair amount of help, but she's improving.
Reading:
Still reading through the readers. She is almost done doing all the reading through Lesson 40 in OPGTR (should finish tomorrow), although concept-wise, she has pretty much finished through lesson 48 or 50, though she still needs lots and lots of practice and solidifying.
I've been horrible about read alouds. Besides scripture study and Daddy's night time story, I haven't been reading much to them. So this week I decided to read them The Hobbit. It should take a while, but I wanted to reread it before the movie comes out, so I'm motivated. They still don't get a whole lot out of chapter book read alouds, but I do want to make it a habit.
Memorization:
She's finished the 3rd Article of Faith and is now working on memorizing her part for the Primary Program at the end of October. She'll have to say this part in front of the whole church, so I want her to have it down to give her the best chance at success. The part she is memorizing is, "Jesus Christ is the perfect example for me. My favorite story about Jesus is when he helped Peter walk on the water."
Harvest Time:
We are going to do our activity tomorrow as a family. There is a place nearby with a corn maze, petting zoo, pumpkin patch, etc. We've been reading about autumn leaves and The Leaf Man especially has been a hit. I don't even think that this book is part of the curriculum. I just picked it up because it fit in the theme of leaves.
Miscellaneous:
Same as usual. Calendar, art, music, and pages 21-23 in Color, Count, and Cut.
And that was our lighter school week!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
