Dopp Family Homeschool

Math: Eli  continued doing his math review.  He's adding and subtracting large and small numbers, practicing tally marks and adding and subtracting multiple numbers.   Ivy  is doing math review as well, including place value's, writing her numbers and identifying the differences in the sides of shapes.   Emmitt  has been practicing counting up to 20 and identifying numbers 1-20. Language Arts: Eli  continued his cursive handwriting practice this week.  He also worked on reading and Narration.  He's ready a story titled Sarah, Plain and Tall .   Ivy  has continued on her All About Reading as well as doing her Handwriting.  Her reading is coming along although I'm hoping to get her reading more on her own.  She really likes to read more in the evening so I'm wanting to focus on that time.   Emmitt  is continuing with learning his letter sounds. HISTORY: Eli  learned about Louis Pastour an...

Math: Eli continued doing his math review.  He's adding and subtracting large and small numbers, practicing tally marks and adding and subtracting multiple numbers.  Ivy is doing math review as well, including place value's, writing her numbers and identifying the differences in the sides of shapes.  Emmitt has been practicing counting up to 20 and identifying numbers 1-20. Language Arts: Eli continued his cursive handwriting practice this week.  He also worked on diagramming sentences this week as well as learning the rule of adding a consonant in a one syllable word when adding a suffix that starts with a vowel.  Ivy has continued on her All About Reading as well as doing her Handwriting.  Emmitt is learning his vowels and practicing the T, H, C and A sounds. HISTORY: Eli learned about the history of presents and practiced wrapping old fashioned gifts.  Ivy and Emmitt missed out on history this week. TECH : Eli made his spinnin...

HISTORY (COMBINED)- We covered a lot of music history over the last few weeks.  We discussed the main five different musical era's and then zoned in on the Baroque Era.  We began looking at the life of Johann Sebasation Bach and listened to a lot of his music.  We are also studying Ancient Civilzations this year. PE (COMBINED GJ GYM) - Eli, Ivy and Emmitt are all doing a Gym / Tumbling class at GJ Gym.  Their first class was this past week and they all LOVED it!!  We actually go as a family and it was great to have all of us out there stretching together and doing tricks on the trampoline etc.  Eli was able to do demonstrations for us since he's gone there for about two years (took about a 6 month break recently) and we discovered Ivy is amazingly flexible.  Emmitt likes to climb ;). TECH (KIWI AND TINKER CRATES) - Ivy and Emmitt have Kiwi Crates this year and Eli gets his Tinker Crate.  We started working on Ivy's and Emmitt's last week and w...

Welcome to our family blog chronicling our journey in homeschool!  This is our third year of homeschooling full time and we LOVE it!!  Each year we ask our kids if they want to go to government school or continue homeschooling and so far, they all want to keep homeschooling along!  Our goals for homeschooling our children include (but are not limited to ;) - A Christ-centered education A focus on family relationships Parents as primary role models (for better or worse lol) Life skills Initiative Ingenuity Allegiance to Good Integrity Passion Commitment Impact