Our first week back to school after a couple weeks off for the holidays was filled with activity. Admittedly, Monday was disasterous. D wanted nothing to do with anything even remotely related to school. Somehow we managed to get through that day, and the rest of the week flew by. We spent an afternoon at the Children's Museum where D played with anyone and everyone while B played on the computer designing kaleidoscopic images. Wednesday and Thursday were snowy days so we had some much-needed outdoor time in between lessons.
We are currently studying Africa and the boys really seem to be enjoying the stories as well as the African Playground CD I've been playing for them. D especially enjoyed By The Baobab Tree (book on CD with accompanying song) by John Archambault, so we expanded on his interest by making our own baobab tree and putting on a show with our new puppet theater. I love being able to go off on little tangents now and again when D shows excitement about something.As for the core subjects, D is reviewing counting by 10's to 100, simple addition, and money. He continues to read from OPG, about a page per day. This week he learned about "ai" blends, along with homophones such as made/maid and plane/plain. And finally, he continues working through his handwriting book and ETC (phonics).
4 comments:
Sounds like a great week!
Lori
That puppet theater is awesome!
~Monica @ WTM
We have that same puppet theater- love it- except it has to go in the doorway and it makes it kind of difficult to get though said door!
Drew didn't want to work Monday either, then again, neither did I ;)
The Children's Museum sounds like an excellent idea (writing that down for future reference).
Thanks for sharing!
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