August 8-12, 2011
Ack. A week of disaster. In the interest of presenting a realistic view of homeschooling ... we got only 3 days in this week (up to 51 now) because Sunny put up a fight every step of the way. Even when I thought we'd had a pretty decent start to schoolwork on a given day, it ended in a screaming jag of "I hate homeschooling and want to go to a REAL school!" By Friday, I was ready to tell her, "Fine. Go to a REAL school. See if I care." AC - my rock - got me through Friday even though he'd stayed home sick. He reminded me that I'd told him weeks ago that I read that it takes a year or two to really get into the patterns and lifestyle of homeschooling, and we're not even 4 months into this. Give it more time.
We had handwriting, math and reading this week.
Handwriting: On Monday, we started a travel notebook from our trips for this summer, and Sunny did some of the writing. We also did some repetitive writing drills of numbers, upper and lower case. Sunny doesn't like it, but really, writing the letters over and over is going to happen at least once or twice a week just because it's the quickest way to learn them.
Math: Into the workbooks we go. Not the most fun thing, but again, it gets the job done while I'm still figuring out alternative activities. I have a couple of addition and subtraction books from the dollar store that I had the girls work in. I wasn't going to have Posy do the workbook - she's still only 3. "I want to do what Sunny is doing." So she got a workbook too. We did have a fun time one day with building shapes and other patterns with mini-marshmallows and toothpicks.
Reading: We're reading Pippi Longstocking as our group read, with lots of free reading. Sunny is reading out loud at least a little bit every day, and Posy is coming along with sounding things out and learning to read.
On library day, I got some books about the body and I plan to start a science unit on it next week. The senses, internal organs, bones and muscles, as well as general hygiene and health issues like exercise and eating habits. We also have an appointment on Monday to tour a dance studio and register both Sunny and Posy for ballet.
1 comment:
We have a really cool puzzle of the body that I might be able to mail your way. We always do supplemental study to what my kids do at school and for a long time L was interested in the body – muscle groups, names (actual names) of bones and such. It was fun.
Pulled out the old Alvin and the Chipmunks song. Watched some classic Harryhausen (to see if he got the bones in the rib cage right), we built our own life-size paper skeleton where we talked about our bones moving like hinges or ball-n-socket or rotation … whatever, it was fun.
Your girls will grow accustomed and so will you. You guys are awesome!
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