We jumped right back into our studies.  We have started really getting aggressive with our math and writing... I found a way for her to do her writing without complaining.. a topic she loves! 

Most recently she has started a writing about "My Idol" in the hopes of someone she likes will motivate her, it was Hannah Montana (with a total of three names) which gave us a lot to write about.  Handwritten it is the front of a page and 1/2 the back, we start the typing (publishing) part tomorrow.

Math has been one of our biggest struggles.  The fact that she didnt know how to tell time, simple addtion and subtraction, or any of the other things she "should" have known in 3rd grade last yr when we pulled her out of school makes me feel like she has done great!  But i do know we have a long way to go and we take it one day/ one task/ on topic at a time.  I am very proud to say she can tell time, she cooks and therefore can read and work with measurements and fractions, can do simple addition, hard addition, and subtraction as well.  With time she is still not 100% on lapsed time (start 2:15 finish 3:00 how much time did it take?).  We will continue to work on it.

thanks to some help from other home school mommies I talk with we started reading Bingo.  she loves to read and that isnt a problem but i wanted to reward her for her reading, and have her reading a variety of material so this is her bingo chart we just started this month:

Reading Bingo

Science Fiction	Read to sibling 20min.	Spanish picture book	Your choice	Magazine Article
Poetry	Humor	Comic Book	Famous Artist	Newspaper Article
Nature:  about Animal, plant, earth, insect, human body	Music composer	FREE	Non-fiction	Book on Manners
Sports	Biography	An Inventor	Safety Book	Your choice
Fantasy	Adventure	How to book	A book from the Bible	Government

Any 5 in a row_____Go to Jumba Juice____

Two rows _________Go to Cold stone________________

Three rows_Go to the bookstore spend up to $20______

Four rows__________ Movie:  Your pick___________

Blackout____________ Scandia Golf ____________

I didnt know how else to put it in here but to copy and paste it...

I am trying to also use a lapbook for one of our lessons to try it out.  I am also trying a few other things as well and hoping we find something that will really help her retain the information better!

gotta go for now!

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Posted by Karen

GREAT idea! I think I need to borrow this for my reluctant reader boys.

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