We are restarting Dinosaurs Before Dark (book 1 in The Magic Treehouse series). I wanted to read it to J & C but there are lesson plans that go along with it so I decided to let Jayden try reading it to us. He did SO amazing with his reading! I am so proud of where he is at!

He will be reading two chapters out loud at a time. Then we will follow up with questions for him to answer in order to make sure he is comprehending his reading.

Answering questions about ch. 1 & 2 of Dinosaurs Before Dark

 

Cait practicing her penmanship by writing her name

We updated our board again!

Cait practicing her penmanship writing the number 4

 Cait playing her dinosaur game. I didn't expect it to be such a big hit but she really loves it!

Jayden drawing a picture and writing a sentence to describe his favorite part of ch. 1 & 2

 Cait sat to watch Leapfrogs Amazing Alphabet Amusement Park.

 And Jayden did some math review work.

We recently found out that Time 4 Learning has the option of an annual membership. We love this program so much that we opted to sign up for it! Jayden is only a few lessons away from completing the entire 1st grade curriculum of Language Arts. We started first grade January 31st! We still have plenty of math left so once we finish Language Arts, we will just move on to second grade for that portion. I love how he can go at his own pace in different subjects! Isn't homeschooling amazing?!?! :)

Cait's back at it!

Because Cait is only 3 1/2 we pretty much only do actual sit down work whenever she asks for it. She goes through spurts where she doesn’t want to do any work to where she does everything I had planned for a week, in one day! This week she had one of those days where she wanted to do a lot of work!

We started off with me calling out letters A-M and her searching for them using her Melissa & Doug Magnetic letters. (Now I see there are 2 D’s and no I!)

Then she did the dot-a-dot page for the letter D which we got from Confessions of a Homeschooler. We got pretty much all of todays worksheets from this site.

 Pretending to eat the donut!

 She worked on a dinosaur pattern

 Did some writing practice

 Put dinosaurs in size order

 And a dinosaur game. I laminated the sheets with dinosaurs and the numbers for durability. One row had a different number of dinosaurs and the other row was blank. She had to match the number to the amount of dinosaurs. She did very well!

Jayden, being the awesome big brother that he is, decided to pretend he didn’t know how to count and asked Cait to “teach him” which helped her get more counting practice in.

Ok yikes!

It's been way too long since I updated! In my defense, things have been pretty hectic around here lately. But I need to remember to make this blog a priority!

So here is an extremely long,way overdue, picture heavy post with short descriptions!

The kids played tball with their dad

We had a lot of fun at the park

 Jayden learned how to ride a bike (thanks Olivia for lending him your bike at the park that day!)

Cait picked up another worm (BLECH!!) which I am happy to report was still in one piece when she put it down! I'm really trying to be calm about these things but I am a city girl. Bugs and stuff creep me out!

 We went to a really cool 1st birthday party!

 We looked for worms after the rain.

 We went to Wendys after TBall practice

 and to the mall to try on silly hats and sit on the ride ons.

 Jayden read a bedtime story to us

 We spent time at the library doing puzzles, playing and reading books.

 We sat in on storytime where the librarian read several books about bugs.

 Jayden played with another little girl at the library

 while Cait looked on inconsolable and jealous.

 Jayden had tball practice

 We went to the movies with daddy and saw The Avengers.

 Cait gave daddy a "haircut" with her brush and her two pretend butter knives.

 Jayden had soccer

I'm not sure where we were going or what was happening here.

 Cait and daddy watched the Grinch

 I tried to sneak a pic of Jayden doing school but he caught me!

 We had co-op! Jenn hosted and taught us about magnets!

 The kids "fished" for magnets. This was a HUGE hit!

 We played duck duck goose!

 

 We sang happy birthday to Bertha, our 97 year old neighbor!

 Tball game!!

 Look at that hit!

 End of game handshake.

 More tball practice

 We went to "Touch a Truck" which is a local event where the kids can get in different vehicles (firetruck, police car, buses, etc) and take a peek at what they look like inside. They had a blast! Of course my battery died in the beginning.

 

Yes, I know this was an obscene amount of pictures, some appearing repetitive, but I am trying to capture every moment I can. They are growing way too fast!