2013 Home School WEEK NINE

This week has been another busy one that included some "schooling" in the car between meetings, appointments, and activities.  Thankfully, Amity does not get carsick while reading so she could read us more chapters from Little Bear and a few nonfiction books about leaves.  In math, we spent some time studying money (pennies, nickels, and dimes) and Amity helped me stay in budget at Costco by using her abacus.  The girls really enjoyed the weather this week and begged to spend time outside any time we were home.  Lily Anna (Amity's doll) has been a constant companion and Amity has been talking alot about "homeschooling" her! :)

2013 Home School WEEK SEVEN/EIGHT

These two weeks have been very full with a visit from GG and KK, trip to visit the Bendor-Samuels & Staalsens, morning at MOPS, day at the Fair, and a spontaneous afternoon at the zoo.  In the middle of all that fun out-of-house learning, we did some in-house learning too.  Amity read her first chapter book (Little Bear) and learned about symmetry, reflections, and numerical expressions.  Vivien has bene joining us at the table more often and is really coming along with her handwriting and her emergent writing by reprensting a lot of the first sounds in words.  So much fun to see the growth!

State Fair of Texas 2013

Howdy Folks!  Big Tex is back and we went to the Fair along with way too many other people but we still had lots of fun.  Amity rode her first roller coaster and *mostly* loved it.  Dennis said she did an authentic roller coaster scream and he was smiling and laughing the whole time.

Each girl rode two rides.  We ate free ice cream and bought corn dogs for the parents, cotton candy for Amity, brownies for Vivien, and a funnel cake to be shared with everyone.

It was a fun day but I think we had enough fair until next year!

2013 Home School WEEK SIX

I can't believe that the first six weeks of school is already over!  This week, Amity attended art class and Carol Choir and both girls attended gymnastics.  We continued reading Little House in the Big Woods, picture books by Shirley Hughes, and lots of books about leaves and trees.  This week, Vivien began working on actual letter formation in her HWT workbook and Amity's math included more work in place value and basic addition.