The girls started school officially on August 22nd and they are loving it! Haley is in Kinder and Emily is completing her last year of Pre-school.
1st day of Kindergarten
Last year in Preschool!! 1st day of school
Working hard our 1st day of school!
For little girls they sure do know alot already and are learning so much more! This year Emily is focusing more on her ABC's (writing all her upper and lower case letters), more numbers (we know up to 10 already), scissor skills, reading time (I still read to her), and beginning phonics. Haley is learning her numbers to 100 (she can say almost all of them, but forgets a few still), skip counting by 2's and by 5's, math, english (to include vowels, writing etc), more scissor skills work, art, history, holidays, money and telling time skills and so much more I'm sure! They both know their days of the week already and the months of the year as well as the 4 seasons. Last year we started on started on sign language as our foreign language and we learned our alphabet, so this year we are focusing on our alphabet again as well as signs for days, numbers, simple/common words etc...we are all sooo excited and I know it's going to be a great year! This year Haley is also learning how to read!! She can read simple sight words already, but we are focusing now on her becoming a more independent reader, so we took a fantastic idea we found online and are using it for her (next year Emily will have one). It's called a Reading Caterpillar! For every book she reads by herself we add a link to our caterpillar...if she can get it to our designated length, she will earn the Butterfly Award once she graduates in May. This award will show that she has gone from a little caterpillar to a soaring butterfly in her reading skills. She's so excited and doesn't let me forget to add those books to her caterpillar! It's a great motivation for her and something she can see progressing!
Here's the 1st book read so far...she has already read another one as of the typing of this post!
As I'm sure you can tell it's going to be a fantastic year!
If you're a fellow homeschooler we wish you a fabulous year as well!!
Have a super day everyone!
Jessica
3 comments:
I love the caterpillar idea! I may steal that for Alyvia! Still gotta find a way to motivate my 4thHG grader to read. Where did you find your desks!? I have been looking for some, but nothing. Good luck on a your year!
JESSICA LOVE YOUR INFORMATIVE "BLOG" I AM VERY PROUD OF THE MOTHER THAT YOU ARE TO THOSE CUTE, SMART,PERCIOUS GREAT GRANDDAUGHTERS OF MINE...MY HEART ACHES THAT I CANT BE NEARER TO THEM..AS I COULDNT BE NEAR TO YOU GROWING UP...THANK YOU FOR BEING SO CONSIDERATE OF ME AND SHAREING THEM WITH ME..WE DONT KNOW HOW LONG GOD WILL ALLOW US TO CONTINUE ON THIS EARTH, BUT KNOWING THAT YOU ARE RAISING THEM IN A STRONG CHRISTIAN HOME IS SO VERY COMFORTING AND REASSURING...KNOWING WE WILL ALL BE TOGETHER FOR ETERNITY... WE MUST PRAY WITHOUT CEASING FOR THE REST OF THIS SIDE OF THE FAMILY FOR THEIR SALVATION SO THE FAMILY CIRCLE WILL NOT BE BROKEN..... LOVE YOU ALL SO VERY MUCH... GRAM
@Melinda...a private school here had them on Craigslist...they said that they bought them from one of the public schools in the summer for next to nothing. I got them for $5/each....the school was selling them because they were "worn"...I thought...okay how worn...then I saw that they only had 2 little chips in them...I so could totally sand them down and redo them, but wanted to wait till the girls are a bit older and not so rough on them! Check out Craigslist or even check with the public and private schools in your area...they get rid of things like that all the time, due to a few too many nicks/scraps...they consider them 'beyond repair' and they just order new ones. I know here in Round Rock, the maintenance dept has sales about twice a year (winter and summer) to get rid of desks...check with your local school and see if they do that. They usually sell them in bulk, but are willing to sell individually if needed and usually for really, really cheap! :)
@Gram...thanks...I love that you still can keep up with what they are doing even though we live so far away :) Love you!
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