This past week we signed Jayden up for a ridiculously wonderful program called Time 4 Learning. He has one more math chapter and one more language arts chapter to complete before officially moving on to the first grade. Each chapter has 4-5 lessons so he should be done before February! We will be moving right along to the first grade material, which we have already been doing for quite some time now. We stepped back to kindergarten work for a bit because when I signed up for T4L, I discovered there were a few things miniscule things that I had missed, like teaching him the parts of a book cover before teaching him to read! So far both Jayden and I REALLY love this program!
Caitlin has officially begun "real" work. She used to be content with tracing pages in her workbooks and watching her educational shows. I was/am fine with that since she just turned 3. Lately she has been expressing a greater interest in one on one work with me, so I have decided, once again, to split school up and teach the children separately. She and I are using the Letter of the Week program. I have come across several websites with printable worksheets to supplement our lessons, as well as several miscellaneous worksheets for her (teaching about patterns, animals, etc.)
I am also starting a great new geography/history curriculum found at Confessions of a Homeschooler. We have a map on the way to add to our wall, a new LeapFrog Tag Map of the US, and our curriculum. We will be purchasing an Atlas and probably a globe before we begin.
Apart from that we will also be starting an official Spanish class and a unit on the 6 Pillars of Character (trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, citizenship).
Without further ado, here are pictures of our last week!
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| Caitlin's "A", "1" and her attempt at a square! |
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| Our Valentines Board |
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| Today's library haul |
