Smith kid #2 is chugging along with reading! We are still doing the main book "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons", but I have also decided to partner a few extra readings along with this book just to reinforce reading and give him the satisfaction of completing a story! We have started reading "BOB BOOKS" as well after we are done with a lesson. We started with the 1st set for beginning readers with very short sentences and short 3 letter words. He did amazing! He was able to read them with little help from me and he is building his confidence on reading and is eager to do more. In 3 days alone we have finished the entire 1st set! He is pretty proud of himself, as am I! We will continue tomorrow with set 2 of the "BOB BOOKS" for advanced readers. I do like how as you go through the books they slowly get harder and he does not notice. I did buy extra books with stories from the same author that wrote our main as well. We started the "BOB BOOKS" on lesson 33 into the main book. I am pretty pleased with this style of teaching to read.
The "BOB BOOKS" I borrowed from the Library to see how he did before I decided to make the investment and purchase them. I am really lucky I have all these resources available to us. Otherwise, I have no idea how we would afford all this. We purchase all of our books we use for homeschool used off Amazon.com or Ebay.com which saves us quite a bit as well and we have not run into a problem with quality! :)
Math, I gave him the choice of doing more of the clock or starting fractions. He picked the clock and this past week we have been working on 1/4 hours. He got addition with sums ranging from 0-19 and subtraction ranging in numbers from 0-9.
Science goes with our weekly theme. During bird week we learned about eggs and things that hatch from them, plus a few different birds, what they eat and how they make a nest.
History, we haven't touched too much into that....unless it goes with our weekly theme. Like during Pilgrims week, we learned about the Mayflower and the settlers and so on. My mind is a little blank right now...so I cannot think of anything recent to report about with this.
We are going to another Folk Art class at our local Library tonight, which Smith kid #2 always enjoys.
Well we are in St. Patty's week this week and while we did not get into much of the history behind this holiday, we are doing all the fun stuff of the holiday. I made them special snacks as well. I will have to post pictures about it then.
I have started to get the outline for the new school year ready to go. Smith kid #2 will be entering 1st grade, Smith kid #3 will be entering Pre-K, and Smith kid #4 will be entering year #2 of preschool this coming July....which also happens to be when I am due with Smith kid #6. I am trying to prepare everything in advance so I am not running around all frazzled with a newborn trying to keep school going. It will get there, we get into a routine pretty quick around here after the birth of another Smith! :)
With Smith kid #3 we are working on writing his first name and reinforcing shape and color recognition. We are also still working on number and letter recognition and counting. He is able to count to 8 right now :)
Smith kid #4...she is still in the 1st year of preschool...so its more all fun and games and getting used to the routine of sitting for school and doing a few papers. If she learns her shapes, colors, numbers, and letters along the way...great! What we are focusing on for her is potty training. She was a micro preemie so she does things a little bit behind everyone else....one thing I have learned from her though is that she will let you know when she is ready and will do it in her own time! LOL She has done just that with every obstacle we have faced. What a little spit fire she is! :)
Well I guess that's about it. Sorry about no pictures...we are turning my old office into the new nursery so all my stuff has been moved. I will get some up ASAP! :) I like to look back on my own pictures too! I love to read back on my old posts as well and see how far we have come...which is one of the main purposes of doing blogs for me and hoping to help at least one person along the way! :)
