Inspiration…
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| The kids were keeping themselves busy playing with their Mr. Potato Heads before church. |
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| This guy has been amazing at completing his morning chores. He does everything by himself now, except for bushing his teeth and hair. |
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| For Spanish, the kids learned these four colors. They watched a short video from Preschool Prep Company on the colors in Spanish and then made these matching cards. They all did great! |
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| Today in music, we did a review for M (new student). We made a “Note Tree” showing how a Whole Note can be divided all the way down into Eighth Notes. Of course you could go crazy and add sixteenth notes, but that seemed a little much! We did our Solfege (Do-Re-Mi) with both signs and full body movement. We talked about percussion and how we can bang on the counter, our bodies, etc. and practice counting our beats. Finally we discussed the Dynamics of music and sang our Spanish version of “Are You Sleeping.” |
Our memory verse last week:
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| In French, we reviewed greeting and learned some more vocabulary. They were a little “out of it” since we were having it at the gym. There were guys constantly peeking in to see if they could use that room, etc, so it’s definitely best to do it at my house. Plus, everyone else can get lunch started or whatever at home, instead of having to wait there. Back to topic, they remembered most of the vocabulary learned previously and they loved singing the Ratounet (French) song. They were all engaged and participating really well. We made cards with some greeting words and phrases and played a game to match them up. They even took some of them home. Bonjour-Hello Au Revoir-Goodbye Ça va?-Is everything alright? Comment allez-vous?-How are you? Bien-Good/Well |
While I teach ballet, my neighbor, S, takes the boys and plays sports and plays games with them.
This is a new 100 chart, but we were using it for Ordinal Numbers. K did awesome finding the numbers and giving me the ordinal number names (basically, just adding the “th” at the end).
Memory verses:
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| We started out with a bit of a Mathematics lesson. We needed to cut paper to fit in our metal insets work, so I used a ruler and scissors along with a pencil and measured the squares, then traced lines on paper that measure the same as the squares. We cut them out and they fit really well. Now, onto our Language Arts lesson! |
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| For more information on this incredibly awesome work, click here. |
And I couldn’t help myself and use this teachable moment as a teachable moment for Geography! I taught K about latitude and longitude. Perfect!
The kids learned how to say: I love my family, I love my dad, I love my mom, I love my older brother, I love my older sister, I love my little brother, I love my little sister, and I love myself. Awesomeness!!!!
Baby girl just floored me with this one! She was in the tub and I just casually asked her the names of the letters. She is bilingual (at least), no doubt! This is adorable. (This video may not be copied or used without the owner’s permission)
We will never forget… 9/11
Well, “THE DAY” is here! This is the very first time that I have to homeschool K while little sister is awake and in the schoolroom with us. K fell asleep at the same time as sister was napping, so they were both going to be awake during our homeschooling time. Yikes. I was expecting the worst, but it never happened (yay). I mean, it wasn’t ideal in my view because K was distracted/excited that she was there, but she was paying attention and absorbing everything right along with him! Wow! Couldn’t pay anyone to do it this well! hahaha
She was in the pack and play the entire time and did better and better as the lesson progressed. No crying or whining, just a tiny bit or whimpering every now and again. K did better as well. He had to go to timeout a couple of times before he settled down. I was taking it easy and taking it slow. I was aware that this would require more patience than usual. But I had a backup plan: let he watch an educational video in the living room (while on her high chair) while we were busy. Again, undesirable and not ideal for me, but at least I had a plan b. No need for it at all. I am no glad! He adjusted perfectly. I hope there can come a time when we can all have quiet time (aka nap) at the same time and then homeschool with baby girl there so she can start learning higher level stuff, too. She’d love it! We might try it again soon. I loved having her there!
I placed a golden basket by the schoolroom door to leave our shoes and toys there to wait for us to be done with our lessons. Works like a charm!
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| For more information on the Sandpaper Numbers and how to use them, click here. |
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| She’s watching and observing. Absorbing it all. Love it! |
‘Whose child is this? ‘ I asked one day
Seeing a little one out at play
‘Mine’, said the parent with a tender smile
‘Mine to keep a little while
To bathe his hands and comb his hair
To tell him what he is to wear
To prepare him that he may always be good
And each day do the things he should’
‘Whose child is this? ‘ I asked again
As the door opened and someone came in
‘Mine’, said the teacher with the same tender smile
‘Mine, to keep just for a little while
To teach him how to be gentle and kind
To train and direct his dear little mind
To help him live by every rule
And get the best he can from school’
‘Whose child is this? ‘ I ask once more
Just as the little one entered the door
‘Ours’ said the parent and the teacher as they smiled
And each took the hand of the little child
‘Ours to love and train together
Ours this blessed task forever.’
~Winter Galz
I get to be both mom and teacher of my children!
What a completely surreal privilege and blessing!
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