It has been a while since I have done a post like this, so I thought I'd write about what everyone is doing here at our little academy. During this week, our memory verse was Luke 6:31, which encourages us to treat others the way we would like to be treated. M has even started joining us for memory verse time; he runs over and sits on my lap while the other two sit on their mats. I love that!
This week K and I have done a couple of lessons from
The Parent's Guide. We have been working with letter combinations for the long o sound. We also do reading from various books, like the Forg and Toad series and Calliou. Usually, he reads a page and then I read a page.
We have also been working on addition with our ten frame. This is not his favorite activity, so I have been trying to find ways to make it more interesting for him. I started out using simple counters, then counting bears, and now we are back to his favorite, cars. The goal is his working on his math skills, so I will take it (just have to use a bigger ten frame).
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Ten frame addition with the counting bears |
He and G have both enjoyed coloring and working in the jumbo activity/coloring books they received from their aunt and uncle for Christmas.
G has been working with her counting bears, where she sorts and counts. She has also enjoyed her new sandpaper letters; she is my tactile learner, so these letters are great for her. We use the Didax sandpaper letters, which have we have really enjoyed; one drawback, for us, is the numbers that tell you which stroke to do first. Even M tries to get his hand on the letters because they are on a nice bright orange background.
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G working with the bears |
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Sandpaper letters |
We also began to work on her operation of the mouse on our laptop. She ws so excited to be able to operate the computer game on her own, and I was excited for her.
M has continued working on his colors. He notices colors everywhere and in many things. This week, he has taken the shape sorter pieces and bean to identify them by color. He's also started to stack the blocks on his Melissa and Doug train from time to time, whereas before he was content to simply putting it together and riding it around empty.
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Choo choo! |
We did lots more, including some painting and soccer time with Poppy. All in all, it was a great week.