Sick day!

My poor boy was not feeling well today so we declared today a sick day. Lots of hugs and cuddles were all that our revised lesson plan included for the day. He seems to be doing much better tonight so we will pick up where we left off tomorrow!

 I know he doesn't look sick in this pic but I assure you that the vomit and diarrhea told me otherwise!

Week 2!

Today was a great school day. Even C wanted to learn!

First we worked on "_ap" words.

Because J already recognizes his numbers and can count, we are really working on writing. This week I decided he would learn to write two numbers instead of one. So he worked on writing the numbers 2 & 3.

J practiced writing the letter Bb and did some work in a workbook where he had to circle the words that start with the letter B.

He also learned the spanish name for yellow (ama-ree-yo according to J)

Here is little Miss C working. She actually seemed interested in school today so I decided to jump on the opportunity to teach her about circles. (Brown circle in the second pic was me!)

She chose to write with a lavender crayon so you can't really see it but she did make some weird looking circles!

The lesson plans for this week can be found here.

Successful first week!

A little late at posting but better late than never!

Friday was a really relaxed day.

We worked on a couple of worksheets

C was supremely wicked, tossing crayons and being a real handful. When she knew she pulled the last straw, she flashed one of these at me and instantly started behaving:

We went to the movies to see Legend of the Guardians (which was really cute!) and this is just a random funny shot I got!

And last, but not least, our file folder. I am not too impressed with how it came out, but I am not very artistic. Plus I kind of just threw this together during the few spare minutes I had Friday. J wasn't too interested in helping me either. Next one will be better!

Under the flaps show what we learned this week. Example:

The folded up paper on the bottom right was a word puzzle that J did and wanted to include. It somehow got glue on it and is now sealed shut!

And because you are never finished learning something new, I am teaching myself to knit with the help of youtube!

Here is a work in progress (wip) picture of a Hudson Hat that I am working on for J.

I love her too!

Message from my older sister D!

So..after three days of reading your homeschooling blog and looking at the pictures you are posting of the children doing their work, I want to take a moment to tell you how impressed I am with the hard work and dedication you have put into setting up your classroom and preparing for what, I believe, will probably be t...he most important job you will ever have..(excluding motherhood of course). It has only been a few days but I know how much this means to you and how much thought you have put into making this decision and I think it is important that you know how much it shows in the kids. They look really happy with the things they are accomplishing...especially J. Keep up the good work...and the posting because I love it...and YOU! ♥

 

It's Thursday!

Today we were gifted with a cool new (to us) educational toy by a family friend.

vtech alphabet picture desk

The Activities: (8 activities and 80 animations!)
-Learn Letters, Numbers and Shapes:  Says the name of the shape, number or letter.
-Find Letters, Numbers and Shapes:  Asks child to find a certain letter, etc.
-Learn Before and After:  Asks what comes before or after a letter, etc.
-Learn Some Words:  Introduces child to more than 60 words
-Learn the Pictures: Reinforces words and their beginning letters
-Missing Letter:  Practice spelling skills
-Spelling: Combine letters to make a word
-Music:  Press a Number Button for a musical note. The 10 numbers become a musical key pad.  Press a Shape Button to hear a melody ("The Alphabet Song", "If You're Happy", "The Bus Song",  "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly")  Press a Letter Button to hear funny sound effects.

It is a big hit with both kids. She also crocheted the kids two cats for Halloween, also a big hit!

Thanks A!

Last night after dinner we quickly ran out to find the perfect leaf for our project today.

Today we worked on our Autumn & Astronaut books. J narrated the facts he wanted to include in the book.

He also colored and helped construct an astronaut!

Of course we practiced writing the letter Aa & the number 1.

We reviewed our A words (which he remembered correctly!)

We practiced rhyming words and colored the pictures rojo and azul.

He also did a quick independent worksheet where he matched the capital letters with the lowercase letters.

You can find this worksheet here.

Caitlin wasn't into anything but the astronaut part, and even that was short lived.