...Haha, we are definitely doing alot of Physical Education this term, specifically swimming, beside the fact that it is good therapy for 'Lisey's' newly decasted leg!! It has been getting pretty hot here in Sydney. Plus the younger two aren't really into swimming, so teaching them is definitely good for the portfolio!!
We bought several different types of floaties to help the kids to gain confidence in the water. "Merah likes the swim shirt with the floaties sewn in,
And Gil Gway, prefers the swim vest with the noodles!
The younger two after much coaxing and bribing, got into the pool and we could barely get them out! So now I am able to get into the pool and actually have a swim around instead of holding a cold, wet baby.
I have been very pleased with the amount of work we have done this week, and what we have achieved (Im talking about how much I've got done!!). It seems like a couple of hours have been added to the day, and I haven't run out of time. Surprisingly, we've managed to do all subjects, learn our Latin each day, do the Trail Guide to World Geography each day and extra, even do some science bookwork!!
I do have a couple of things I still want to work on, I need to get "Lisey writing more and doing a better job of composing, she is still very basic in how she writes a story, and I thought she would be along a bit more by now. We are using Writing Strands or rather just started, and she just follows the instructions for that days lesson, by herself and I check it afterwards. By the end of the last book, she should be able to write University papers, so I thought that was a great goal to aim for!!
I do want to increase Tamerah's work load, we are slowly working though the sounds using the 100 easy lessons, and increasing her reading work, I make up little books on the computer with the words we are currently reading, so as she is not trying to learn too many different words all at once, which I found when I tried to use a bought reading curriculum. I am happy with the amount of reading she is doing, and I try not to compare it to what I know the kids in school at her age are learning, but its a bit hard!!
