Monday was Claire's first day of kindergarten! As I write this, we've finished our third day of school. So far, we've done the following:
-3 lessons in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (After our first lesson, Claire replied, "But I still don't know how to read!" Cute.).
-We've plotted Germany on our world map (where Martin Luther lived...he was our first history guy).
-We've made designs using pattern blocks for math (Saxon Math). Meredith really enjoys our math lessons.
-We're reading The Boxcar Children for our read-aloud (Sonlight Curriculum). Everyone enjoys this as well!
-We've made some crafts to do our Olympic events. And today we did a special "Pet Shop Olympics" in which we set up all of our animals and did animal-oriented Olympics...very fun for the girls.
So far, things seem to be going smoothly. This morning, Claire was up a little early and Meredith was still in bed. I took the opportunity to get through our History lesson before Meredith awoke. It worked rather well, and we may take this approach more often! I am really looking forward to her reading her first word. I know she'll be so excited about it. It will come this coming Monday during Lesson 6. She'll read the word "me". She's currently learning the sounds (mmmmm, sssss, aaaaa, eeeee, nnnnnn). So far, so good.
Here are some pictures from our first day:
-3 lessons in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (After our first lesson, Claire replied, "But I still don't know how to read!" Cute.).
-We've plotted Germany on our world map (where Martin Luther lived...he was our first history guy).
-We've made designs using pattern blocks for math (Saxon Math). Meredith really enjoys our math lessons.
-We're reading The Boxcar Children for our read-aloud (Sonlight Curriculum). Everyone enjoys this as well!
-We've made some crafts to do our Olympic events. And today we did a special "Pet Shop Olympics" in which we set up all of our animals and did animal-oriented Olympics...very fun for the girls.
So far, things seem to be going smoothly. This morning, Claire was up a little early and Meredith was still in bed. I took the opportunity to get through our History lesson before Meredith awoke. It worked rather well, and we may take this approach more often! I am really looking forward to her reading her first word. I know she'll be so excited about it. It will come this coming Monday during Lesson 6. She'll read the word "me". She's currently learning the sounds (mmmmm, sssss, aaaaa, eeeee, nnnnnn). So far, so good.
Here are some pictures from our first day:
3 comments:
Congratulations on starting school! It sounds like you have it pretty organized..as always...and I love the creativity you add!!! Keep up the great work...you are a wonderful mom! :) Love ya!
oh i just love how creative you are and how well the pictures captured school time, not to mention teething :). love ya lots..m.e.
This is great, Jackie! Looks like you'll be an awesome homeschool mom.
I was homeschooled for 6 years and had saxon math too. I'd have to say it looks like Claire enjoys it more than I did! :)
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