Nov. 30 - Dec. 12, 2009

I guess I am on a roll with the 2 week posts. I have been catching up on sleep instead of staying up late blogging but it is working out well so here we go again :)

Here is the run down of the last 2 weeks here at L.G. Academy :)...

• I have a money puzzle that my mom saved. I am not sure if it was mine or my brothers but either way, it is Lili's now. She is catching on to the different coins and that there is a number on dollar bills that tell you how many dollars it is. The puzzle has some advanced features with adding money (we will get to that eventually), but for now Lili likes to pick out the different coins and put them in the puzzle.
• LILI KNOWS HER PHONE NUMBER!!! YAY!!! I wrote our phone number on paper and put it next to one of her play phones so she could practice dialing it and it didn't take long before she knew the whole thing. I now have our home address on the wall in her room, it isn't sticking yet but she will get it.

Lili was losing interest in what I had planned for school most days so back to the drawing board I went, well back to google actually. I have been reading tons of homeschooling blogs and getting some great ideas. I came across a new concept of a combination of a story and art (STart). You read a story and then do some kind of project based on that story. Lili loves books and projects so this has been a hit!
So far we...

• read...Bear in the big blue house book about feelings (played with Lili's bear feelings puzzle). I have a few of these activties for next week too.

• To my surprise Lili likes worksheets. We did a few math worksheets and she did great. There were count sheets, sizes, etc... and she gets to write her name at the top :) She likes to write her name whenever she gets a chance. We started a sheet where she writes her name every month for a year to see the progress in her writing skills.I

• Lili likes the show Sid the Science Kid that is on PBS (Channel 11) and one day last week they made applesauce on the show. Lili asked if we could make applesauce too. She knew what went in it...apples, water, cinnamon, sugar. Can't turn down that. So we made some delicious chunky applesauce. Mmmmm.....good!
• We have been getting Lili in the habit of brushing her teeth before school and to teach her about the importance of brushing regularly and eating heathly meals I found a printable board game to print and play with her. She loved it! We played a several times.
• I am trying to see if she in interested and ready to draw beyond a scribble. She hasn't ventured into this on her own yet but is at the age for it. So to get her motivated and feeling proud I made a few connect the dot pictures so she could draw an object, recognize it and like that she was able to do it. We drew a candy cane, a Christmas ornament, and wrote the work CAT. She liked it! Then we moved on to her watching me draw and object (example...a sun) then she would try and draw a sun. She did an awesome job.
• We painted wooden Christmas ornaments with Gabi and daddy. Lili painted a mitten, Gabi painted a Christmas tree, daddy painted Frosty the snowman and I (mommy), painted Rudolph. We hung them on the tree :) Every year Lili (and now Gabi) makes an ornament. Some years I buy one for them also based on an interest of theirs that year. The plan is, when they grow up and have their first Christmas tree they will get a box filled with these memorable ornaments.