Another week at our house has come and gone, and we had fun. We are still focusing on Exodus 20:12, a verse about honoring your parents, and one day G even sang the verse, which helped her in obeying something I was asking her to do. It's nice when that happens.
K has been working out of a book a friend referred to me entitled
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading by Jessie Wise and Sara Buffington. This phonics book, geared to the classical approach to education, is divided into many short lessons and starts with teaching the letter sounds. We started work with the lessons that focused on consonant blends. Though K is able to zip through many of the lessons now, this book has helped me to see some areas where he needs extra work . K enjoys it, and since it's something only he and I do together, he really likes that. I talk more about this in
this post. K also did some tracing, cutting, and pasting with numbers.
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| Numbers on the choo choo train |
G did a great deal of work with her 1-2-3 floor puzzle (which we do on the table). She is getting so much better at putting the pieces together. K joined in; he had fun helping her out. G was so encouraging and gracious, telling her brother "Good job!" and thanking him for his help. It warmed my heart.
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| Team work! |
K and G enjoyed some art time this week. I finally bought some do-a-dot paints, and both kids liked painting with those.
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| K working on his Cars 2 picture and G on an Aerial picture |
One day this week was a little hard; so, to break the monotony, we went outside for bubbles (which we play with at least a couple of times a week) and learning time. G worked on her puzzles and K and I worked on adding using his cars, pretending different amounts of cars were going into the "garage." It's been difficult to engage him with adding and subtracting, so I was glad this was interesting to him.
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| ABC puzzle |
On Saturday, the kids got the opportunity to enjoy one of our state parks with fun in the spring and a boat tour where they got to see alligators, ducks and other birds and hear about their habitat and some facts about them. Thanks to my friend Ra for inviting us!
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| M enjoying the water |
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| An alligator on the bank |
The kids also enjoyed some time at the park as well as fun with friends. Grateful for another great week!
Awesome stories. The children are developing into diverse learners. What an amazing teacher and mother they have. The state park trip was a blast. It is so neat for the kids to get that type of exposure. Love you K G & M; most especially T.
ReplyDeleteThanks honey! We couldn't do it without your support, love, and encouragement.
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