Oh, has it been busy!! Tuesday the kids went to co-op and had a great time. They are learning some phrases in Spanish, along with a few songs. Lots of arts/crafts!! They both love PE. Colette even got to go to the playground and went on the 'wobbly' bridge. I guess seeing all the other kids go on it fine made her feel safer;) When one of her friends sisters came in (Lily), Lily pulled her sister aside, motioned to Colette and said, 'this is my friend'. too cute!! I think Lily is around 3yo. We even got chips on the way out (raising money for ..something;) ..that's bad..lol. So they enjoyed that!
Colette sitting with her friend, 'Lily', coloring. They like to talk to eachother..cute!!
Today we're going 'relaxed' again. Read a little from the Chronological Bible, and then the Everyday Bible. I've decided I'm going to just read what the book has in stories. It's too much of a headache to go looking around for a story that matches..
Gracie did her reading, and that is moving fast! Rachel decided she wants to read, 'The Wizard of Oz' this week. She was suppose to read, 'The Prince and the Pea', but when Iread it to them (I usually will pre-read a good story;) she liked it so much, she read it again! So, guess that is out.. But she decided on that one.
We did math again, the simple adding, subtracting. Imagine, the first week and it is already covering simple multiplication!! All oral, and story problem-like but that is fast moving! And they are getting it. Learning adding/subtracting and multiplication all in one. Wow! Rachel also works from a workbook we got Singapore Math 2a. It's one of those curriculums that is around 2years ahead public schools. She seems to enjoy it. We do the textbook orally, (it's colorful/interactive/mostly story problems), and she will do the first page of the workbook today for 'homework'. Having her do the worksheet during school was too much waiting!! So we have 'homework' now:)
We looked at the Saxon textbooks I got. They're nice, and I plan to use them next year, maybe. They go right into algebra though..at grade 4. I tried printing off a pre-algebra site I found for her, as some people just 'struggle though' it..it didn't work too well. So we'll look at it again next year. It's for grades 4 and 5, but is still a few years ahead of public schools.. I figure with this textbook we're using, at the rate it's moving, maybe we'll get to algebra by then!;) if not next year, grade 6 is a good year to start algebra too..but at the rate the textbook we're using now is moving..and how great it is at explaining/breaking things down, they should be thinking more 'algebraically' by the time we finish this year..
Colette loves to draw pictures
We used First Language Lessons and learned about proper nouns and common nouns and Rachel did a worksheet from our language arts site on this. Then we did something new: This day in history. It was fairly detailed, so I just had them study 'Korea'. We found it on the map, (their ball;) observed how close it was to our country and colored a flag:)
We ended up finishing A is for America, and looked up all the states mentioned on the map. We discussed the major highways (which I love!) that are on the map, so they can see what highway we would take if we go and drive somewhere. We used 'east' and 'west' when trying to find the states, and the mile-maker thing;) to see how many miles it was. They aleady understand the equator. So we covered some ground;)
Gracie drew a picture of one of her webkinz extended family.
They also 'finally' got a chance to paint their clay snowmen/cookie (Colette..lol..we ran out of dough;) They had a lot of fun!!
Here are the snowmen. Gracie, Rachel and Colette. LOL..we ran out of clay..she got the 'cookie'
Happy Homeschooling!!
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