Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Apple Picking
Monday was a nice Autumn day so we finally were able to go apple picking. Neither of the kids has been apple picking in at least 2 years so it was a pretty new experience for both of them.
It was a school holiday for a lot of people and the orchard was pretty busy. It's a big place (and a lot of people were there for pumpkins not apples) so it wasn't overly crowded except standing on line for the hay ride and to pay as we were leaving.
We started off with a hay ride to the orchard. Evidently neither of them remembered last years ride to the pumpkin patch so they were very excited.
It was a school holiday for a lot of people and the orchard was pretty busy. It's a big place (and a lot of people were there for pumpkins not apples) so it wasn't overly crowded except standing on line for the hay ride and to pay as we were leaving.
We started off with a hay ride to the orchard. Evidently neither of them remembered last years ride to the pumpkin patch so they were very excited.
When we reached the back of the orchard, the kids were a little discouraged since the first trees we came to were earlier ripening varieties and the trees were almost bare. What was left was over-ripe and rotting on the branches. But, before too long we found some perfect apples. We ended up getting Fuji's, Golden Delicious and possibly a few other varieties. I had brought small gift bags for each of the kids to collect their apples in. Once full we would empty those bags into larger grocery bags that I carried. This gave me the opportunity to check over the apples they picked to make sure they weren't bruised or damaged and the kids had the opportunity to carry their own picks (at least for a little while). The trees had many low hanging branches so it was easy for them to pick the apples themselves.
Now I just have to figure out what to do with 10 pounds of apples. :-)
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
Weekly Wrap-Up: 10/4/10-10/8/10
We had a much better week this week. The weather still didn’t cooperate (3 days of rain) but instead of postponing our Fall activities, I just modified them slightly. To see those activities, check here or continue to read after this post.
We went ahead and began our Geography/Map lessons. The kids had fun with those but we didn’t get to do the treasure hunt I had planned. Maybe next week. More information on what we did get done (including a very interesting map of my living room) is here or continue to read after this post.
Our core subjects are continuing to go very well. Georgie is racing through Explode the Code and All About Spelling. He has mastered the short vowel sound card, knows the difference between a vowel and a consonant. We are up to Lesson 5 in AAS and part of this lesson was picking the correct vowel for a list of words. He had no trouble doing this and was able to pick out the vowel right away. He also understood the idea that every word contains at least one vowel. Lesson 6 introduces our first word list. I think he’s going to do great and enjoy actually spelling words as part of the lesson.
He’s starting to get into reading real books. He still doesn’t know every word, or even the majority of words in most books (Hop on Pop and Great Day for Up being two exceptions) but he loves to pick out the words he does know. This week I caught him sitting in the chair reading The Gingerbread Man to Vicki. I absolutely LOVE this.
In order to help him read more “real” books, I’m adding a little bit of sight/high-frequency words to what we do. Nothing heavy, just playing games or doing a few quick flash cards periodically. I have some wipe-off word search puzzle cards that I found for $1 when a local Office Max was closing down. Each puzzle has 4 high usage words to find. He enjoyed doing these (although I’m not completely positive he didn’t look at the answers on the back). Another set has word family endings.
We also played some Scrabble Jr. and an Alphabet Bingo game I recently found (at Targets $ Spot I think). I liked the Alphabet game a lot. The cards ask questions like, “what is the last letter in duck?” and “what is the second letter in cow?”. I would have Georgie answer the question, then both him and Vicki would look for the letter on their game board.
We did three lessons of MEP math this week. We had a couple of lessons that asked for students to stand together. Since we are not in a classroom and our only other pupil is not likely to cooperate, we utilized the help of some special friends.
Our lesson had one “student” stand in the front of the class. Another “student” stands next to him and we ask how we can show this (1+1=2). Have another student stand next to them and show this (1+1+1=3), and so on. Georgie started out with the suggested arrangements but quickly decided more friends were needed and ended up with nine. The combinations he came up with were 3+3+3=9, 9-6=3, 3-1=2, 3-2=1 and 3-3=0. Evidently he likes subtraction better than addition. He wrote his equations on his personal wipe-board (great find at the Target $ Spot).
A lot of MEP is easy for him right now but it often throws in new ways of thinking about numbers that require him to give it some thought. I love the mix of easy and challenging that this is providing for him.
I’m trying to incorporate games into our day more and this week he played an addition file folder game (from File Folder Fun) called Dino Bones.
Georgie is doing okay with his handwriting. I’m finding that I can’t just give him his handwriting sheets and leave him to do them. I have to watch to make sure he forms the letters correctly (after the first couple, he just traces them any which way) and doesn’t rush through it. Right now he is pretty good at writing upper case letters but is resistant to writing lower case. I don’t want to push too much but I do want him to learn proper formation and not pick up any bad habits so we will continue along with our handwriting sheets with slightly more oversight. I think adding more freehand practice rather than mostly tracing may help.
We did some work on money and time this week. He completely understands pennies, so we will be moving on to nickels. He also had no trouble telling time to the hour so we will be moving on in that as well.
Vicki continued working on the Letter B this week. She did a collage sheet where she used ball stickers to fill in a B. Unfortunately I didn’t notice that one type of sticker on the sheet was actually a hockey puck and not a ball (the B template is from Confessions of a Homeshooler).
She did a couple of magnet pages from Making Learning Fun. One she did with multi-colored reinforcements and one using a small butterfly stamp.
I’m trying to mix up how she does these pages since she seems to be losing interest in them. My main purpose in giving her “school” work is to keep her occupied while I help Georgie so I’m trying to find things that she can do pretty independently (although with close supervision to avoid major messes).
I cut out pieces and provided pom-poms and jewels for her to make a butterfly. She absolutely LOVES glue so anything where she can pile it on is usually a hit. Luckily I have about a dozen bottles of glue so we won’t run out for a while.
Her finished product. The glue makes it nice and shiny. :-)
I think this actually was a pretty good week.
We went ahead and began our Geography/Map lessons. The kids had fun with those but we didn’t get to do the treasure hunt I had planned. Maybe next week. More information on what we did get done (including a very interesting map of my living room) is here or continue to read after this post.
Our core subjects are continuing to go very well. Georgie is racing through Explode the Code and All About Spelling. He has mastered the short vowel sound card, knows the difference between a vowel and a consonant. We are up to Lesson 5 in AAS and part of this lesson was picking the correct vowel for a list of words. He had no trouble doing this and was able to pick out the vowel right away. He also understood the idea that every word contains at least one vowel. Lesson 6 introduces our first word list. I think he’s going to do great and enjoy actually spelling words as part of the lesson.
He’s starting to get into reading real books. He still doesn’t know every word, or even the majority of words in most books (Hop on Pop and Great Day for Up being two exceptions) but he loves to pick out the words he does know. This week I caught him sitting in the chair reading The Gingerbread Man to Vicki. I absolutely LOVE this.
In order to help him read more “real” books, I’m adding a little bit of sight/high-frequency words to what we do. Nothing heavy, just playing games or doing a few quick flash cards periodically. I have some wipe-off word search puzzle cards that I found for $1 when a local Office Max was closing down. Each puzzle has 4 high usage words to find. He enjoyed doing these (although I’m not completely positive he didn’t look at the answers on the back). Another set has word family endings.
We also played some Scrabble Jr. and an Alphabet Bingo game I recently found (at Targets $ Spot I think). I liked the Alphabet game a lot. The cards ask questions like, “what is the last letter in duck?” and “what is the second letter in cow?”. I would have Georgie answer the question, then both him and Vicki would look for the letter on their game board.
We did three lessons of MEP math this week. We had a couple of lessons that asked for students to stand together. Since we are not in a classroom and our only other pupil is not likely to cooperate, we utilized the help of some special friends.
Our lesson had one “student” stand in the front of the class. Another “student” stands next to him and we ask how we can show this (1+1=2). Have another student stand next to them and show this (1+1+1=3), and so on. Georgie started out with the suggested arrangements but quickly decided more friends were needed and ended up with nine. The combinations he came up with were 3+3+3=9, 9-6=3, 3-1=2, 3-2=1 and 3-3=0. Evidently he likes subtraction better than addition. He wrote his equations on his personal wipe-board (great find at the Target $ Spot).
A lot of MEP is easy for him right now but it often throws in new ways of thinking about numbers that require him to give it some thought. I love the mix of easy and challenging that this is providing for him.
I’m trying to incorporate games into our day more and this week he played an addition file folder game (from File Folder Fun) called Dino Bones.
Georgie is doing okay with his handwriting. I’m finding that I can’t just give him his handwriting sheets and leave him to do them. I have to watch to make sure he forms the letters correctly (after the first couple, he just traces them any which way) and doesn’t rush through it. Right now he is pretty good at writing upper case letters but is resistant to writing lower case. I don’t want to push too much but I do want him to learn proper formation and not pick up any bad habits so we will continue along with our handwriting sheets with slightly more oversight. I think adding more freehand practice rather than mostly tracing may help.
We did some work on money and time this week. He completely understands pennies, so we will be moving on to nickels. He also had no trouble telling time to the hour so we will be moving on in that as well.
Vicki continued working on the Letter B this week. She did a collage sheet where she used ball stickers to fill in a B. Unfortunately I didn’t notice that one type of sticker on the sheet was actually a hockey puck and not a ball (the B template is from Confessions of a Homeshooler).
She did a couple of magnet pages from Making Learning Fun. One she did with multi-colored reinforcements and one using a small butterfly stamp.
I’m trying to mix up how she does these pages since she seems to be losing interest in them. My main purpose in giving her “school” work is to keep her occupied while I help Georgie so I’m trying to find things that she can do pretty independently (although with close supervision to avoid major messes).
I cut out pieces and provided pom-poms and jewels for her to make a butterfly. She absolutely LOVES glue so anything where she can pile it on is usually a hit. Luckily I have about a dozen bottles of glue so we won’t run out for a while.
Her finished product. The glue makes it nice and shiny. :-)
I think this actually was a pretty good week.
Geography and Maps
We began our Geography this week using Evan Moor's Beginning Geography and Lesson D3 in Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding. The first few workpages in the Evan Moor were pretty easy for Georgie. His favorite was one that involved tracing a path to find a treasure and then drawing what treasure was found. He decided his treasure was "Three chocolate coins for three pirates. Each pirate will get one coin."
After explaining how maps are a picture of things how they would look from up above, we were going to draw a map of our living room. Here is Georgie's map of my living room:
Interesting, yes? I asked him to tell me about his picture. It is our living room from WAY, WAY up in outer space. This is an alien who is looking down at our planet as he stands among the stars.
We weren't able to get outside for our treasure map activity so we will continue our Geography/Map lessons as part of our core curriculum for the next couple of weeks.
We read a lot of books for this unit. Unfortunately they need to be returned to the library so we won't be able to keep them on hand as we proceed forward. There's A Map In My Lap is the only one we own at this time so we will just have to keep referring back to that one. Thankfully, that seemed to be the book Georgie liked best (he is really into the Cat in the Hat these days).
After explaining how maps are a picture of things how they would look from up above, we were going to draw a map of our living room. Here is Georgie's map of my living room:
We weren't able to get outside for our treasure map activity so we will continue our Geography/Map lessons as part of our core curriculum for the next couple of weeks.
We read a lot of books for this unit. Unfortunately they need to be returned to the library so we won't be able to keep them on hand as we proceed forward. There's A Map In My Lap is the only one we own at this time so we will just have to keep referring back to that one. Thankfully, that seemed to be the book Georgie liked best (he is really into the Cat in the Hat these days).
Autumn
We had another rainy, wet week (at least the beginning part of it) so we still never made it out to collect leaves and acorns. Instead of postponing our Fall activities even longer I went ahead with a slightly modified plan.
I wanted to set up a Fall sensory bin for the kids so I went to the Dollar Tree and picked up some silk/plastic leaves, plastic acorns, small gourds and pumpkins and colored some rice orange and yellow. I put it all together with some sparkly pumpkin stickers I already had (I stuck two together back to back) and we had our sensory bin.
We borrowed some of the materials out of our bin to do some craft projects. I had already cut leaf shapes out of cardstock and we found many different ways to decorate them.
We used some of the acorns to do some “marble” painting.
I was going to do this following the directions I often see where you put a piece of paper in a shallow box, add your paint covered marble and roll it around. I had visions of paint covered acorns rolling around my living room so I decided to modify it slightly.
I placed two acorns each in red, yellow, orange and brown paint. I gave each kid an old peanut butter jar with a card stock leaf inside. They were able to spoon the acorns into the jar, put on the lid and shake it around. I still wound up with a paint-covered acorn rolling around the room due to a lid not tightened enough but it stayed much neater this way. Of course, all the paints ended up mixed together for a nice brown hue.
Shake, shake, shake…
Our finished product.
We also painted some leaves with water colors. I taped a few leaves to a larger piece of paper in order to make it easier. I also wanted to see if they would make a nice stencil pattern when removed (they didn’t). Once the leaves were done, Vicki wanted to continue painting so I left her to it and Georgie and I went on to other things. One of her masterpieces:
They painted some leaves with regular tempura paints. Georgie insisted he needed blue, in addition to the fall colors I provided, so I gave him one of our dabber painters.
We borrowed some of the leaves from our sensory bin and made them nice and sparkly. The kids painted the leaves with some watered down glue, then placed them in a plastic container and…
shake, shake, shake….
and our finished product.
Since this wasn’t a unit I planned ahead, the only books we had were ones I already had here at home. We read Molly’s Seasons by Ellen Kandoian and, always a favorite, The Magic School Bus.
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I wanted to set up a Fall sensory bin for the kids so I went to the Dollar Tree and picked up some silk/plastic leaves, plastic acorns, small gourds and pumpkins and colored some rice orange and yellow. I put it all together with some sparkly pumpkin stickers I already had (I stuck two together back to back) and we had our sensory bin.
We borrowed some of the materials out of our bin to do some craft projects. I had already cut leaf shapes out of cardstock and we found many different ways to decorate them.
We used some of the acorns to do some “marble” painting.
I was going to do this following the directions I often see where you put a piece of paper in a shallow box, add your paint covered marble and roll it around. I had visions of paint covered acorns rolling around my living room so I decided to modify it slightly.
I placed two acorns each in red, yellow, orange and brown paint. I gave each kid an old peanut butter jar with a card stock leaf inside. They were able to spoon the acorns into the jar, put on the lid and shake it around. I still wound up with a paint-covered acorn rolling around the room due to a lid not tightened enough but it stayed much neater this way. Of course, all the paints ended up mixed together for a nice brown hue.
Shake, shake, shake…
Our finished product.
We also painted some leaves with water colors. I taped a few leaves to a larger piece of paper in order to make it easier. I also wanted to see if they would make a nice stencil pattern when removed (they didn’t). Once the leaves were done, Vicki wanted to continue painting so I left her to it and Georgie and I went on to other things. One of her masterpieces:
They painted some leaves with regular tempura paints. Georgie insisted he needed blue, in addition to the fall colors I provided, so I gave him one of our dabber painters.
We borrowed some of the leaves from our sensory bin and made them nice and sparkly. The kids painted the leaves with some watered down glue, then placed them in a plastic container and…
shake, shake, shake….
and our finished product.
Since this wasn’t a unit I planned ahead, the only books we had were ones I already had here at home. We read Molly’s Seasons by Ellen Kandoian and, always a favorite, The Magic School Bus.
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Friday, October 1, 2010
Weekly Wrap-Up - September 27 through October 1, 2010
This week was one of those "The best laid plans...." weeks.
I wanted to go on Nature Walks to gather leaves and acorns for Fall crafts....instead it rained everyday except Wednesday and even then it was overcast and damp.
I wanted to start our map unit with a treasure hunt....instead...see above reference to rain. :-(
Daddy was away on a business trip to India all week and Vicki was feeling very uncooperative (45 minutes straight of screaming Thursday morning). It certainly didn't lead to a productive week.
One of the highlights of the week was being able to talk to daddy by video call through Skype.
We did do a lot of reading this week. Georgie read Hop On Pop and A Great Day for Up almost completely by himself. He was very excited. The only words he had trouble with were ones like Mr., Mrs., getting, buttercups, waiters, there and where. We are working a little bit on sight words but not too intensely. In fact, other than the games we play all I did was write a word on each page in a spiral-bound index card pad. We flip through the book and each word he can read he puts a sticker on the page.
We also read Wacky Wednesday. I don't know how I missed this story in the past but I wasn't familiar with it. Georgie loved this story. Each page had a scene with things that were wacky - a stroller with feet, a tree that didn't reach the ground, a house without a door, etc. Some of the things Georgie didn't catch, like a sign that said "Four Sale" but he loved pointing out the crazy stuff on each page and laughing hysterically.
One of the things we did get to this week was AAS. Georgie and I are both loving this program (I guess I'm loving it because he is). When we started with a review of segmenting words this week, first he used the tokens to segment, then he pulled the letters down one at a time while making the sound. He decided to do this on his own but I think we do this in an upcoming lesson.
In the picture some of the letter tiles are vertical down the side. This is because we are not using the correct size board at this point. I wanted something smaller for now since I don't leave it out in one place in order to keep it out of Vicki's reach. Our wall mounted board is the correct size and we may swap around the boards if it starts becoming an issue.
For a little while Georgie played with the tiles spelling random words he knew. He was able to figure out right away that he couldn't do certain words because he only had one of each letter. He mentioned he couldn't do his name becauese he would need two e's and two g's, and he couldn't write book because he would need two o's. He did write a few standard cvc style words. The only thing I wish was different was the letter tile for a. The font used shows most of the letters in the standard way they are written but not the a, which is written as it is shown in the font used in this post (unfortunately blogger doesn't have a font that does a in what I'm referring to as the standard written way but I'm hoping you know what I mean).
We played the dice word game a few times this week at Georgie's request. He really likes playing with the dice but he doesn't do it exactly right. He basically changes the dice to whatever letter he wants and then puts it with the rolled endings to make words. He did okay writing the words down but needs to work on spacing and doing more lower case instead of upper case.
When she wasn't screaming, Vicki played with the Unifix cubes, some lacing cards and did a wipe off book of numbers. I managed to get a picture before she colored her tummy green.
Vicki also tried to decorate a large letter a by stamping it with a cut apple. This didn't work too well both because the paint I had (finger paints) wasn't the right consistency to work well with stamping and because Vicki swirled the apple around the page instead of stamping. While she was working on that, Georgie decided he wanted to stamp with a banana and I had to explain why that probably wouldn't work. We use dabber paints and roller paints and glitter paints so often, I didn't even realize the only regular paints we had (except large bottles of white and black) were these gel-like finger paints. So, we ended up running out to the store for some washable tempera paints to have for our crafts.
One thing I accomplished this week was changing around how we did our workboxes. I changed it so much that we are no longer doing workboxes. My old method was pretty tweaked to begin with. I used magazine holders to organize a week's worth of work at a time by subject. The holders contained handwriting worksheets, ETC and matching Emergent Readers, All About Spelling, letter and number dabber/sticker pages for Vicki, fine motor skills (Georgie really needs to work on cutting), Monday’s math (alternate time and money), Tuesday's math - MEP, Wednesday's math - RS Abacus (which we haven't actually started yet) and Thursdays math - MEP. It was working okay but it was wasting a lot of space since many of the holders only had a few sheets of paper in them and I was finding it difficult to stand there and decide what to do next. This may not seem like a big deal but on those days where I was extremely sleep-deprived, this became a major issue.
So, I scrapped the magazine holders and made two letter trays using cereal boxes. I covered them with pretty paper and stacked them slightly staggered. All Vicki's paper activities were in one and all Georgie's work in the other. All materials needed for lessons (MEP cards, AAS tiles and card box, abacus, etc.) sit in a basket next to them on the shelf and our read-aloud selection is upright next to them. Doesn't the tape on the side look lovely? It's not nearly as noticable IRL as it is in this picture.
When I put Georgie's work in his box I arranged it in a logical order for us to do it. I mixed up sit-down/writing activities with more active/non-written work. I also made sheets for "Play Reading Game" and "Play Math Game" that I stuck in periodically. It contains a week's worth of work so that if we have a bad day or just a bad afternoon, it won't matter so much we just continue the next day with where we left off.
His order right now is: AAS (small amount of writing), Phonics/Reading (a lot of writing followed by looking at books), Abacus or Game, Writing, MEP (moderate writing), Time or Money, fine motor skills.
I am still using large plastic drawers to organize items for our history or science topics.
Soccer was cancelled this week (see above mentioned rain) but the kids are still loving gymnastics. Georgie has said that once a week is not enough and he wants to go more often. Most of our PE for this week consisted of running around like lunatics, jumping on the couch screaming and crawling under the bed. What fun.
I wanted to go on Nature Walks to gather leaves and acorns for Fall crafts....instead it rained everyday except Wednesday and even then it was overcast and damp.
I wanted to start our map unit with a treasure hunt....instead...see above reference to rain. :-(
Daddy was away on a business trip to India all week and Vicki was feeling very uncooperative (45 minutes straight of screaming Thursday morning). It certainly didn't lead to a productive week.
One of the highlights of the week was being able to talk to daddy by video call through Skype.
We did do a lot of reading this week. Georgie read Hop On Pop and A Great Day for Up almost completely by himself. He was very excited. The only words he had trouble with were ones like Mr., Mrs., getting, buttercups, waiters, there and where. We are working a little bit on sight words but not too intensely. In fact, other than the games we play all I did was write a word on each page in a spiral-bound index card pad. We flip through the book and each word he can read he puts a sticker on the page.
We also read Wacky Wednesday. I don't know how I missed this story in the past but I wasn't familiar with it. Georgie loved this story. Each page had a scene with things that were wacky - a stroller with feet, a tree that didn't reach the ground, a house without a door, etc. Some of the things Georgie didn't catch, like a sign that said "Four Sale" but he loved pointing out the crazy stuff on each page and laughing hysterically.
One of the things we did get to this week was AAS. Georgie and I are both loving this program (I guess I'm loving it because he is). When we started with a review of segmenting words this week, first he used the tokens to segment, then he pulled the letters down one at a time while making the sound. He decided to do this on his own but I think we do this in an upcoming lesson.
For a little while Georgie played with the tiles spelling random words he knew. He was able to figure out right away that he couldn't do certain words because he only had one of each letter. He mentioned he couldn't do his name becauese he would need two e's and two g's, and he couldn't write book because he would need two o's. He did write a few standard cvc style words. The only thing I wish was different was the letter tile for a. The font used shows most of the letters in the standard way they are written but not the a, which is written as it is shown in the font used in this post (unfortunately blogger doesn't have a font that does a in what I'm referring to as the standard written way but I'm hoping you know what I mean).
We played the dice word game a few times this week at Georgie's request. He really likes playing with the dice but he doesn't do it exactly right. He basically changes the dice to whatever letter he wants and then puts it with the rolled endings to make words. He did okay writing the words down but needs to work on spacing and doing more lower case instead of upper case.
When she wasn't screaming, Vicki played with the Unifix cubes, some lacing cards and did a wipe off book of numbers. I managed to get a picture before she colored her tummy green.
One thing I accomplished this week was changing around how we did our workboxes. I changed it so much that we are no longer doing workboxes. My old method was pretty tweaked to begin with. I used magazine holders to organize a week's worth of work at a time by subject. The holders contained handwriting worksheets, ETC and matching Emergent Readers, All About Spelling, letter and number dabber/sticker pages for Vicki, fine motor skills (Georgie really needs to work on cutting), Monday’s math (alternate time and money), Tuesday's math - MEP, Wednesday's math - RS Abacus (which we haven't actually started yet) and Thursdays math - MEP. It was working okay but it was wasting a lot of space since many of the holders only had a few sheets of paper in them and I was finding it difficult to stand there and decide what to do next. This may not seem like a big deal but on those days where I was extremely sleep-deprived, this became a major issue.
So, I scrapped the magazine holders and made two letter trays using cereal boxes. I covered them with pretty paper and stacked them slightly staggered. All Vicki's paper activities were in one and all Georgie's work in the other. All materials needed for lessons (MEP cards, AAS tiles and card box, abacus, etc.) sit in a basket next to them on the shelf and our read-aloud selection is upright next to them. Doesn't the tape on the side look lovely? It's not nearly as noticable IRL as it is in this picture.
When I put Georgie's work in his box I arranged it in a logical order for us to do it. I mixed up sit-down/writing activities with more active/non-written work. I also made sheets for "Play Reading Game" and "Play Math Game" that I stuck in periodically. It contains a week's worth of work so that if we have a bad day or just a bad afternoon, it won't matter so much we just continue the next day with where we left off.
His order right now is: AAS (small amount of writing), Phonics/Reading (a lot of writing followed by looking at books), Abacus or Game, Writing, MEP (moderate writing), Time or Money, fine motor skills.
I am still using large plastic drawers to organize items for our history or science topics.
Soccer was cancelled this week (see above mentioned rain) but the kids are still loving gymnastics. Georgie has said that once a week is not enough and he wants to go more often. Most of our PE for this week consisted of running around like lunatics, jumping on the couch screaming and crawling under the bed. What fun.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Halloween Costumes
Georgie has been thinking about what he wants to be for Halloween. His thought process so far went something like this (picture him with eyes focused upward and one hand on his chin - the classic thinking pose):
"Hmmm, I think....a vampire! No, no, no, I don't like yucky teeth.
How about..... a stink monster! No, that will just chase people away.
How about a ghost! Yeah, a ghost. That's not too scary, not too icky. I'll be a ghost."
Vicki decided she would be "a ghost of a princess."
I'm going to wait a few more weeks before working on gathering costumes. Speaking from experience, they could change their mind 10 times by Halloween.
"Hmmm, I think....a vampire! No, no, no, I don't like yucky teeth.
How about..... a stink monster! No, that will just chase people away.
How about a ghost! Yeah, a ghost. That's not too scary, not too icky. I'll be a ghost."
Vicki decided she would be "a ghost of a princess."
I'm going to wait a few more weeks before working on gathering costumes. Speaking from experience, they could change their mind 10 times by Halloween.
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