It happens often, little moments when I just sit back and smile, thanking God for the opportunity to homeschool. I thank Him for guiding me on this path, as it is one I never even saw myself on just a few years ago. One of those moments occurred today… There’s nothing like reading a story about a cat, to YOUR… Read More
In the Works ~ Penguin Lapbook
We are REALLY enjoying our penguin lapbook, he’s falling in love with penguins about as much as he did with pandas! Today he worked on his drawing form his Draw Write Now, Book 4: The Polar Regions, Arctic, Antarctic (Draw-Write-Now). We also read the book, Penguins!, and I had him waddle like an Emporer penguin with an egg. He learned… Read More
It’s Here, It’s Here!
For those of you who don’t know, we use Calvert as our grade level curriculum. We use them because we get all of the materials for free since we are with a public cyber charter school. I really like Calvert so far, we used PreK and K with them too and our 1st grade box arrived today! P has been… Read More
Ordinal Numbers
We are very math-heavy around here lately! Along with money, we’ve been learning ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd…). P loved our game of, “on the bus.” Here he is lining his friends up…Then we took turns selecting who could get on the bus, practicing our ordinal words. We quizzed each other too…”What place is the kitty?” “Who is 5th in… Read More
Money ~ Lapbook
We finished our money lapbook today! Tonight for homework, P will be reviewing it all with Daddy, it will be great practice to reinforce the skills we learned! Here are photos of the completed lapbook…Here he is doing the coin spelling… Here’s what we did for the inside of the “Give, Save, Spend” triangle fold…I had him tell me about… Read More
