Well, like I said it's been a while since I've posted here! We have been so busy! Between doctor, dental, vision appointments for the girls on top of school and school activities we've been swamped! We have 2 more appointments in October as well. The youngest is having dental surgery on the 19th. Then she has a follow-up with her pediatrician regarding the new allergy meds the week after that. My oldest has shots the same day as the follow-up. And I'm not exactly sure if the youngest will have a follow-up after her surgery. Not sure how that works.
We have also been doing the Lowe's Build & Grow program. We go twice a month and the girls each build the day's project, get their badges for that project, and their certificates. It's a great out-of-the-home activity for them and they LOVE it! Those Saturdays are also family day. We take the girls to lunch at their choice of restaurant and they get to spend their money they have earned for the past two weeks of chores. On the opposite weekends of these outings they have library Friday. That is today and they are beyond excited! So that's what has been keeping us so busy.
As far as what they've been doing in homeschool we've been busy there too! Serena spent a week or so focusing on math. I've found that she learns and retains better if we have a main focus subject with lighter work on the side. So we did math for a couple weeks and have now moved into grammar. Today she focused on punctuation and capitalization. She has been learning the subject and predicate parts of sentences also. We are working our way up to nouns and all those different parts of a sentence that accompany all this! I wish I knew of a way to lapbook some of this, but at this point I'm drawing a blank! Any tips?
Aleah has been doing typical Pre-K work. Numbers, letters, shapes, etc. Today we re-visited the letter Aa. She did a few worksheets and then a book on the letter A that I got from DLTK printables online.
Anyway, that's pretty much our quick update and view into life for the past month! Maybe next update I'll have photos and/or videos to accompany the blog update! :)
Until then, Be blessed and have a wonderful day Homeschooling!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Aug 30, 2011
Catching up on my blogging of the school work. We've been working on lapbooks again. The girls are really responding to those. Serena has started lapbooks for the states she has been learning about. Aleah has been working on numbers/letters/colors.
So an update for today. Serena finished her Alabama lapbook. Gotta work on gluing neatly! It's a little messy due to that, but she did a great job. She can recall most of the facts she learned as well. The lapbook also covered parts that her workbook did not so she learned extra things.
Aleah has completed 2 lapbooks since I last blogged. She did the number 1 and today she did a lapbook on colors.
I won't go into detail here on the blog, because I really need to get everything written down in the lesson plan books and grade books, but things are going great!
Yesterday, Monday Aug. 29, 11, was an off day due to the fact that Serena had a midday eye appointment. She will be getting reading glasses, a very low prescription, to help her with smaller font. But we worked on Sunday afternoon to make up for missing yesterday.
So an update for today. Serena finished her Alabama lapbook. Gotta work on gluing neatly! It's a little messy due to that, but she did a great job. She can recall most of the facts she learned as well. The lapbook also covered parts that her workbook did not so she learned extra things.
Aleah has completed 2 lapbooks since I last blogged. She did the number 1 and today she did a lapbook on colors.
I won't go into detail here on the blog, because I really need to get everything written down in the lesson plan books and grade books, but things are going great!
Yesterday, Monday Aug. 29, 11, was an off day due to the fact that Serena had a midday eye appointment. She will be getting reading glasses, a very low prescription, to help her with smaller font. But we worked on Sunday afternoon to make up for missing yesterday.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
August 24, 2011
Day 3 of lapbooks. Today Serena finished up her lapbook on Mammals. She did really well and we'll certainly refer back to it for refreshing her on the subject. Aleah has completed 3 lapbooks. She did letters Z and K and the number 8. We'll also continue to use her books as well. The girls loved this addition to school.
Aleah's Lapbooks
Serena's Lapbook
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Week of 8.23 - 8.26
This week we are working on lapbooks. Serena is working on one about mammals as a follow up to her lessons for the last 3 weeks. Aleah is doing smaller lapbooks on various letters and numbers.
This method of learning is going really well. The girls are enjoying the entire process! I'll be posting photos of the finished products at the end of the week!
I am thinking of doing 3 weeks of lessons followed by a week of lapbooking to review the three weeks main studies!
This method of learning is going really well. The girls are enjoying the entire process! I'll be posting photos of the finished products at the end of the week!
I am thinking of doing 3 weeks of lessons followed by a week of lapbooking to review the three weeks main studies!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Aug 16, 2011 - Aug 18, 2011
Ok, I'm combining three days work into this blog because time simply got away from me and I didn't get to blog the girls school work.
For the last 3 school days (16, 17, & 18) this is what the girls have done.
Serena
16th
Spelling: at family, ad family all family, an family
Reading Skills: Using clues for story numbering. Color Words. Using Clues to deduce a pictures answers. Making a Poem. Rhyme and Riddles using clues to find the answer. Reading a story and answering the question about the story.
Math: addition, adding tens and ones,
17th
Spelling: Short i sounds, Word Search for short i words,
Animal Science : Kangaroo, Lion, Panda, Tiger, Koala, Birds
Math: Subraction,
Time, Money, and Fractions : Nickel (counting by 5's)
18th
Spelling: Short O sounds, Crossword with Short O words
Animal Science: Eagle, Flamingo, Hummingbird
Math: Subtraction (Finished Subtraction Review Section)
Time, Money, and Fractions: Dime and Quarter (counting by 10's and 25's), Fractions of a Set,
Aleah (On the 17th she had a free day) She hasn't been in the school frame of mind this week, and since she is really just in prep for starting next year I have let her choose how much work. Some days it's a lot, some days not so much.
16th
Colors : Pink
Sorting by Color : Red, Yellow, and Green. This consisted of coloring the images correctly. Cutting and pasting according to the directions.
Letters and Sounds : Yy
Reading Readiness : Same and Different
18th
What starts with Xx and Yy
Matching Lowercase Letters
Matching Upper and Lowercase to each other.
Serena did very well once again with her work. It did take some coaxing on some days to get her in the frame of mind to do her work, but it wasn't a huge task. Doing Science and Social Studies after she does the things she dislikes the most gives her something to look forward to.
For the last 3 school days (16, 17, & 18) this is what the girls have done.
Serena
16th
Spelling: at family, ad family all family, an family
Reading Skills: Using clues for story numbering. Color Words. Using Clues to deduce a pictures answers. Making a Poem. Rhyme and Riddles using clues to find the answer. Reading a story and answering the question about the story.
Math: addition, adding tens and ones,
17th
Spelling: Short i sounds, Word Search for short i words,
Animal Science : Kangaroo, Lion, Panda, Tiger, Koala, Birds
Math: Subraction,
Time, Money, and Fractions : Nickel (counting by 5's)
18th
Spelling: Short O sounds, Crossword with Short O words
Animal Science: Eagle, Flamingo, Hummingbird
Math: Subtraction (Finished Subtraction Review Section)
Time, Money, and Fractions: Dime and Quarter (counting by 10's and 25's), Fractions of a Set,
Aleah (On the 17th she had a free day) She hasn't been in the school frame of mind this week, and since she is really just in prep for starting next year I have let her choose how much work. Some days it's a lot, some days not so much.
16th
Colors : Pink
Sorting by Color : Red, Yellow, and Green. This consisted of coloring the images correctly. Cutting and pasting according to the directions.
Letters and Sounds : Yy
Reading Readiness : Same and Different
18th
What starts with Xx and Yy
Matching Lowercase Letters
Matching Upper and Lowercase to each other.
Serena did very well once again with her work. It did take some coaxing on some days to get her in the frame of mind to do her work, but it wasn't a huge task. Doing Science and Social Studies after she does the things she dislikes the most gives her something to look forward to.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Aug 15, 2011
Serena
Spelling
Reading Skills
**Did a lot of these two subjects today. She did very well with her reading skills. Spelling she did well, but really does not like it!
Aleah
Colors : Black & Brown
Patterns: with Movement, Sounds, Matching patterns with objects, shapes, and Ladder Patterns
Pre-Writing
Letter C objects
Social Studies : Over and Under
Spelling
Reading Skills
**Did a lot of these two subjects today. She did very well with her reading skills. Spelling she did well, but really does not like it!
Aleah
Colors : Black & Brown
Patterns: with Movement, Sounds, Matching patterns with objects, shapes, and Ladder Patterns
Pre-Writing
Letter C objects
Social Studies : Over and Under
Monday, August 15, 2011
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