Gabi has read her first book, yes we video taped it. She was so excited. She read the 1st book in the Now I'm Reading set titled Fat Cat. Now she has read it over and over again and I think has it memorized. Time to move to book #2.... Rat Naps. She wants to read them all right now so she can get the stickers that go inside after she can read each book with no help.
Time to pull out those math counters. Well our math counters are some little foam triangles I found in the dollar section at Target. I don't know what their intended purpose is but they are great for teaching math. Gabi is working on basic addition and subtraction and is catching on very quickly using those colorful squishy triangles. I love those $1 bins!
Well after having it bookmarked for about a year I finally did some browsing around at spellcity.com and it is a really nice site. You can choose your grade level and spelling word list from a themed category. The first week Lili chose a beach theme so all her words were beach related, such as sun, ocean, seashells, sand, umbrella, etc... Lili can then throughout the week play games that use her spelling words and also the vocabulary for those words. She really likes the hangmouse game which is just like hang man but it is a mouse that gets caught by a cat if you do not figure out the word in time. Then for us on Friday we have our spelling and vocab test for the week. They both can be done on the website but Lili prefers the spelling test on paper. Here is the site if you want to check it out.... http://www.spellingcity.com/
Lili has been in a hurry so we are already through Zz for cursive. Time to practice and start writing words! She is so excited and even challenged me to a race to see who could write the whole alphabet, both upper and lower case in cursive the fastest. Well I won but not by much she was only about 3 letters behind me the whole time. And to be honest I had to cheat and look at the board for a few letters. I don't know when the last time I wrote a z in cursive was, probably in 2nd grade, lol
We are all enjoying our human body study. We are playing a few games that I bought on Amazon.com. We have the Magic School Bus: A Journey into the Human Body and Someboday board game. Lili is also coloring a Dover coloring book on the human body which is I love. I want a Dover coloring book too. They are very detailed books for older kids.
Our homeschool group is going well and staying busy. We have a hayride coming up next week and working on more fun field trip ideas.
I have also signed up for daily emails from clickschooling.com They send a web based curriculum idea everyday. So far I believe they have all been free. I have been saving these emails and am starting to filter through them and see what we can use right now. Each day is a different subject as well, Monday is math, Tuesday is science, Wednesday is language arts, Thursday is social studies, Friday is a virtual field trip and Saturday is music, art, foreign language. I think it is well worth the daily email so far.
“When the atmosphere encourages learning, the learning is inevitable.”
―
Elizabeth Foss,
Real Learning: Education In The Heart Of The Home
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