G reading

Here is the link to G reading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BxhYZ6tjiA

August 11, 2011

Today school went well. We tried to finish stuff up for the week since we have our Nature Study Co-Op tomorrow.

P: Worked on her math of adding 0, adding 1 and solving for the unknown. She used her blocks some today but seemed to start grasping the concept pretty well. She also is working on the definition of a noun but concentrating on the person part. Her spelling is something she is getting really good at and that is helping her reading come along pretty well. Her handwriting is getting better everyday. Just have to get her to quit holding her pencil so tight. I think her favorite part is when she gets to journal and getting to draw her picture. :)

E: worked really hard on her math and did much better today. She also worked on her cursive, learning the lowercase letters i and t and connecting them.

The poem she started working on for memorization is "The Goops" by Gelette Burgess; Which she got a kick out of this considering her Nana Reed has been teaching her about the goops for years!!!

We also continued working on common nouns and proper nouns and the definition of each.

G: She is reading more and more 3 letter words. Her handwriting is improving also. She enjoys her dry erase book a lot. She worked on the number 4 today. Writing the number, the word and coloring groups of 4.

August 9, 2011

Back in the grind after camping. Girls had a great attitude and I was able to school Payton and then do Emi separately today. Took more of my day up that way, but until I can figure out exactly how to do both together without taking all day to do it.

We started our Bible lessons today learning about Genesis 1. The girls colored pictures about God creating day and night. They each colored one showing something they did during the day.

Payton started in her handwriting book to learn correct manuscript. She has such pretty handwriting when she takes her time, just like her sissy.

Emi started working on cursive today and she is so excited. She worked on under-curves, over-curves, slanted lines and slanted ovals.

They worked on spelling and grammar. Emi is still struggling in some hard spelling words so we are trying to do some easier words to begin with and work into harder ones. Payton did well on hers and just needed help on her challenge words. Each did great on their grammar.

We also started working on Alabama facts and review.

Payton's art work (outside playhouse with daddy's treesand and all) :)

August 3, 2011

We are camping up at Smith Lake and it is raining very badly. The good thing about being able to school my girls is that school can go anywhere with us. I brought our bin with a few days work and we were able to do some in the camper.

Each girl had their journal for handwriting. They wrote about what they have been doing while camping along with drawing pictures about it. Math review sheets were a must to get us ready for the new material we hope to start soon. We also did some spelling and grammar while working on the journal entries.

July 27, 2011

We did school again today. Still reviewing a lot to get caught up from where both girls left off last year. Handwriting, Bible, Math, Spelling and Grammar. A lot accomplished in a few hours but went pretty well.

First Day of School

We officially kicked off our school year today. All in all it went well. The girls are going to gradually work into harder lessons so we are starting off with a lot of reviewing. However, today we got in handwriting, Bible, spelling, grammar and math. So proud of how they did. G even hung on for the first hour.

School Room

Well I am half way into July and have finally gotten my school room almost the way it needs to be to begin our year.

Here are the latest pictures of how the school room is looking:

Closet organized with shelves and bins and no more closet door!!! Bookshelf for reading books and curriculum.

Art work that the girls have done and our Fruit of the Spirit chart along with our awesome flag!

Chalkboard given to me by a dear friend and our name above it along with our daily schedule.

Curriculum is in, plans have begun, school supplies are all complete, and the only thing still missing is chairs for my table.

Here are the curriculum choices so far :)

Math-U-See is what we will be using again this year. E is in Gamma, and P will be doing Beta. G will continue working on her early number facts.

First Language Lessons of the Well Trained Mind - E doing lev 2, P doing level 1 for our grammar and language arts.

A Reason for Spelling - E level 2, P level 1. G will be doing StarFall for this.

E will also be using some Literacy First curriculum. As well as P using some of the reading material.

LifePac Bible for all the girls

Handwriting - Cursive for E and manuscript for P. G will continue working on all letters.

We will doing a co-0p every other Friday afternoon for our nature study lessons (science), art and foreign language.

I am so excited about this year to see how God is going to work in my life and in my girls.