D-F

Cait had her Pre-K class again. She worked on making crafts with letters d-f.

Dots for D

Eyes for E

Feathers for F

 

I expected to find Jayden running amok since he likes to burn of energy here. Instead I found him and Juan sitting in the reading corner... playing games on the tablets.

 Cait decided to hide from that little boy who spent 15 minutes chasing her.

 We got home and the homeschooling tags I bought the kids had arrived!

Learning to read

Caitlin is so eager to learn to read. She hates being the only one in the house who doesn't know how to read. So today she started with "at" words. We used the dvd from Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read: Kindergarten Level 1. We started with the first lesson which included at words.

She worked worksheets 1-4 in the "at" category from Kidzone.

 

She insisted that she was ready for her BOB book "Mat" (the "at" book, also the first book of the series. She quickly became frustrated so I read it to her. We will be using tons of activities I found on Pinterest to help her get ready to read this book all by herself, hopefully soon!

Swimming

Miss Scarlett allowed Cait to join Jayden's class for swimming so that I wasn't coming in twice a week. So this week she got to join her older brother. Miss Scarlett told me that she was extremely impressed with how quickly Cait is progressing, a huge step up from the screaming girl she was in November 2011! They are getting report cards next week but Miss Scarlett already told me both kids get to progress to the next level! And Cait is down from 3 floats to two!

Build a Bear

Last week was Olivia's birthday. We went to Build A Bear and we got our kids ANOTHER bear. Ridiculous I know, but Juan was away for the week on a business trip and the kids needed a pick me up!

 Then we headed to the food court for lunch.

Karate and Pre-K

We recently took Jayden to a demo karate class to see if he would enjoy it. I am happy to report that he did. So we signed him up. The demo classes continue all month long but his actual classes start at the end of February.

The classes will be taught by a student teacher, also known as "deshi". Deshi told the parents that he can not be too strict because the place he teaches at is an indoor playground and they do not allow super strictness but if we ever put Jayden in his school he is much tougher. When the kids did not pay attention deshi had them do jumping jacks which I thought was a pretty cool method for him to get them to focus. 

 

Last week Cait started her pre-k class. I was a total failure and got lost so I missed just about all of her class. May took her for me though so she didn't miss it. What I did catch was the kids working on letters A-C. Teacher Becky had them paste cut out pictures that started with each letter on the appropriate page.

Cait also baked cookies (her favorite part according to her!) in shapes that started with A-C. There were airplanes, butterflies, and cars. She even made a couple of extra cookies for her brother.