We had a lot of fun with our homeschool today. The kids actually let me sleep in later than I’m going to publicly admit and I was refreshed. haha
Anyway, they have been begging to do more formal stuff the past few days, so I decided to indulge them. While I was getting some laundry going, I sent them off with a Ranger Rick and a Highlights High Five magazine to browse.
Once I got back, we got to work with some health and safety lessons (puhlease remember our address and phone number in an emergency, kids!!!!), a page about the Statue of Liberty, and then some more practice on our emergency information.
I hooked Michael up with some handwriting practice (Thank you, Starfall, for providing free printables!) and Grace did as well. He did a few letters from the alphabet, she did actual writing journal phonics practice. Then we did some reading lessons from The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. Michael is on lesson 3. Grace is on 121 or something like that. We finished the first 100 a long time ago and have slowly been goign through it now since she has taken to reading so much and I feel that reading itself can be a big “teacher”….so no rush on OPG. 🙂
Finally, we did some math. Michael started an Earlybird K workbook and Grace continued with her Math Mammoth 1A. She really does LOVE it. In fact, I mentioned math and she LIT up and said, “MATH!?!?!??!” and did a goofy happy dance. She was briefly bummed when she saw it was as heet of word problems, but to both of our amazement, she was easily able to do them this time! Last time we tried was around Christmas… she’s “getting” it! 🙂
By this time, I was just done. I decided I’d make them some lunch and they ate. Little did I know, Grace had a plan brewing! She had seen instructions on how to make paper ice cream cones and begged to make them. No prob. I got her some paper, markers, glue, and scissors and let her at it. So “sweet”. 😉
Overall, a great day!
This sounds like such fun.
I have always wondered what it would be like to Homeschool!
We really like it. We’re pretty relaxed around here. Michael just turned 4 a month ago and Grace will be 6 in May so this is technically just her “kinder” year. She actually finished her whole K curriculum when she was 4 and I was pregnant, so we’ve been slowly getting more and more into actual work around here. She’s doing 1st grade math and reads on about a 2nd or so grade reading level which helps SO MUCH.
My son decided around his 4th birthday that he’d like to read, too, so I’m totally into that! Anything that will open his world up to new ideas is peachy with me. 🙂 I think it’s funny how much my kids love school and constantly beg to do more, more, more!