Weeks 1-3 homeschool
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 will get to Eli's this coming week. With Emmitt and Ivy's, we made a little wooden soccer figure that can kick a ball. Eli got his package late so we'll do that this week.
ELI:
Language Arts - Eli is focusing primarily on cursive this year in his handwriting. He's doing a good job and especially when I sit next to him ;). He's been working on contractions, past tense and irregular past tense verbs, dictation, and reviewing coordinating conjunctions. He enjoys listening to his audio book which is currently Far World by J. Scott Savage and also participates in a lot of read aloud time with me (mom).
Math - Eli started Math for a Living Education Level 3 this year. He got halfway through Level 4 of Teaching Textbooks last year, but really started struggling half way through the course and it was getting to the point of tears nearly every day. This summer I researched curriculum for him and so far this is a fit. We chose level 3 as it seemed to be a good fit for him. The beginning of the course is a lot of review for him, but towards the middle / end, there's a lot of new information that will be covered for him (why we went with level 3 vs 4). So far he's been working on clocks, copy work with large numbers and addition of larger numbers.
IVY:
Language Arts - Ivy has really struggled with her reading so we decided to start fresh this year with the All About Reading program in hopes that in gaps she has will be covered. I also chose this curriculum for her as her attention doesn't last long and with the added use of colored and magnetic letter tiles, I thought her attention would last longer. So far it's working. We started last week and did the first three lessons, which she was able to do with no problem. We also spend a lot of time reading aloud every day. She also is working on her handwriting which is basic print right now.
Math - Ivy will be doing level 2 of math for a Living Education. We have been doing worksheets with basic addition, subtraction and money addition as her curriculum is delayed, but should arrive this week.
EMMITT:
Language Arts - Emmitt is doing well with his language arts. He's focusing on vowels right now and learning sounds and slight blending of sounds.
Math - Emmitt is doing basic counting with one digit numbers.
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 will get to Eli's this coming week. With Emmitt and Ivy's, we made a little wooden soccer figure that can kick a ball. Eli got his package late so we'll do that this week.
ELI:
Language Arts - Eli is focusing primarily on cursive this year in his handwriting. He's doing a good job and especially when I sit next to him ;). He's been working on contractions, past tense and irregular past tense verbs, dictation, and reviewing coordinating conjunctions. He enjoys listening to his audio book which is currently Far World by J. Scott Savage and also participates in a lot of read aloud time with me (mom).
Math - Eli started Math for a Living Education Level 3 this year. He got halfway through Level 4 of Teaching Textbooks last year, but really started struggling half way through the course and it was getting to the point of tears nearly every day. This summer I researched curriculum for him and so far this is a fit. We chose level 3 as it seemed to be a good fit for him. The beginning of the course is a lot of review for him, but towards the middle / end, there's a lot of new information that will be covered for him (why we went with level 3 vs 4). So far he's been working on clocks, copy work with large numbers and addition of larger numbers.
IVY:
Language Arts - Ivy has really struggled with her reading so we decided to start fresh this year with the All About Reading program in hopes that in gaps she has will be covered. I also chose this curriculum for her as her attention doesn't last long and with the added use of colored and magnetic letter tiles, I thought her attention would last longer. So far it's working. We started last week and did the first three lessons, which she was able to do with no problem. We also spend a lot of time reading aloud every day. She also is working on her handwriting which is basic print right now.
Math - Ivy will be doing level 2 of math for a Living Education. We have been doing worksheets with basic addition, subtraction and money addition as her curriculum is delayed, but should arrive this week.
EMMITT:
Language Arts - Emmitt is doing well with his language arts. He's focusing on vowels right now and learning sounds and slight blending of sounds.
Math - Emmitt is doing basic counting with one digit numbers.
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