We bid farewell to D's very first loose tooth, which was successfully yanked out by yours truly and magically transformed into $2.00 by the generous tooth fairy. A major milestone in the life of any six-year-old boy. D was thrilled~ I actually thought he'd be incredibly upset, based on his past reactions to any form of bodily harm. I think the impending tooth fairy visit was what kept him excited, especially since he's been saving all his pennies in order to earn a new box of Legos.
We've been very casual about school this month. Things seem to be winding down. D needs extra practice with his addition of numbers 1-20, so we're slowing down a bit with his workbook in order to practice. Phonics comes very easy for him, but I insist he continues with his ETC workbook because it's actually giving him plenty of handwriting practice. I would never tell that to him, however, because he reacts very negatively to the idea of "doing handwriting". He has also been reading Level 1 readers to me at night before I read bedtime stories to him and B. For social studies, we read The Littlest Matryoshka and played with my set of nesting dolls. The boys also colored a map of Russia and the flag.
Science has been almost non-existant this month, at least in terms of anything formal. With the arrival of spring and nicer weather, we've been spending more time outside and observing nature. We took a walk by a wetland area of our neighborhood and watched to see if we could find any frogs. We took a walk through our backyard woods and found a pile of deer poop which we identified by looking it up on the internet. And the boys have excitedly watched our daffodils bloom and the buds appear on all of our trees, as if by magic. We took a walk and found a handful of rocks that had broken in half, giving us the opportunity to observe what a rock looks like inside. D thinks they're all "crystals" and we have them displayed on our nature table. D will begin gymnastics next Tuesday, with his very best buddy in class with him. He did a trial class last week and loved it, although (not surpisingly) the teacher mentioned that he really needs to work on not talking over her and listening to her while she talks. Hopefully he will be able to control his need to constantly chatter.
That's about it for this week. I need to get cracking on ordering curriculum for next year, finishing up this year's paperwork and organizing all of D's work, and making sure to fill out an Intent to Homeschool form, as we'll be "officially" homeschooling next fall once D is in first grade. Kindergarten is not legally mandatory here in NH, so this felt a bit like a "practice year". I'd better get focused!! Hey, isn't that what I'm always telling D?? Like mother, like son.
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Yeah on losing the first tooth!
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