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Jan. 7, 2008
Been awhile...
Over a year, to be more precise. We've been trying to work ourselves into some kind of a decent routine for our lessons for the past year or so. Routine is not my strong suit. I need it to be but it does NOT come naturally. I'd rather fly by the seat of my pants but nothing gets done that way, not on a regular basis anyway.
So I thought a good incentive for me to get our lessons accomplished each morning would be to blog about them here as soon as we've finished. Then I can email the post to my husband so he can keep tabs on what we're up to without having to remember to ask.
Without further ado, our accomplishments for Monday January 7, 2008:
Bible- Mark 1:1-8 I decided to start here because it was always the recommendation for brand new Christians when I worked with CEF. I would like to find some sort of free daily devotional online for kids. Anyone have a good recommendation?
Handwriting- first and last names (for review) "January"
Reading- We're taking it back to the basics. Again. We practiced our letter sounds with the 'repeat after me" approach.
Saxon Math K- lessons 101 and 102 (only 10 more to go until we can start the first grade book)
TH has major complaints about tangrams. I think spatial reasoning is not his forte- that's why we practice it :) Amazingly, with a little help from Mom, something that was "impossible!" becomes "easy!" our other lesson was a rip-snorting game of dominos :)
Read aloud- Chapter 1 of The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White. I loved this book as a child (and everything else by White) so I am hoping my kids will enjoy it as well. The middles played Legos while TH sat on the arm of the couch and watched me read. I'm hoping they just sort of absorb it if they're in the same room and not talking. I can dream anyway.
Vocabulary- boggy, westerly, treacherous, relieved, sly, queer, loafing
At this point our vocabulary consists of me marking words in the text as I read aloud and then we look them up in the dictionary and talk about what they mean. As the boys learn to read and write this will expand, naturally. |
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