Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Catching up!!

The last time I posted we were on day 4!! Well We are now up to about day 31 and having a blast along the way!! We ran into a few set backs between September and November so far, one being I had a baby, and the other being she ended up in the hospital with Pneumonia for a week. However we are doing our best to stay on schedule with our work and get through all we need to get through.

I've been learning as we go more and more how to be more laid back about our learning approach this year. I started off having every day planned out and doing Kindergarten work and activities along with 1st grade activities and it became a little overwhelming...so we are now doing ONLY the kindergarten worksheets for S~ and all the 1st grade curriculum for A~. Then this summer we will go back and do the Activities for Kindergarten which are mostly science projects so it will give us something to look forward to! I had read somewhere that science for grades 1-5 is pretty much just repeating the same thing over and over again each year, which I've found really is the case. So I want their concentration in these first few years to be mostly on reading/math and bible.

We've been skipping ahead in the math sections, so far we've gone through and learned <,>,=. We've learned some geometry, and patterns. And now we are working on addition. Math seems to be a little tough for ~A right now. She was reading the numbers backwards for a few weeks, so we went to get her eyes checked and looks like she needs glasses. Seems like they are helping so far.

So far as our Reading lessons go, we have learned long vowels, short vowels, the sounds oo like spoon and book, th, and today we learned about ar. A~ is now able to write out a word on her paper when I call it out to her and spell it correctly without my help. She is really doing well with her reading!

Our Bible lessons have been building up! We memorize and talk about 1 proverb per week. So far we have about 6 of them that they both have memorized. I leave it up on the board and we try to remember it and talk about it after dinner each night, and A~ also practices her handwriting by copying the verse down each week on her paper. This week we learned about Israel and we drew a map of Israel. We learned a simple story to remember how it looks...it went a little like this:

"A man went fishing and this is his boat, his fishing lines got all tangled up under the boat! The man looked over the side of the boat and fell into the water! These are his two fingers under the front of the boat. He sent up a distress signal to call for help--a balloon with a string, and a mitten tied to the end of it! In this corner there is a head of a huge water bug with two long feelers coming out of it's head."

We are super excited to start our bible reader in 5 more days! Alanah will be able to start reading bible stories herself!!

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