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hippin home school mom
Oct. 22, 2007
update on us
| I haven't had much time to blog as of late. So here is what is new.
We started middle daughters new curriculum. It is Saxon Phonics. It is very thorough, combining phonics with handwriting and reading of course. I like that her hand writing is part of the lesson. The lessons are a little long, but I think she is doing well.
We have began a new topic as part of our Attentiveness unit in Konos. I always swore I would do every thing in Konos but make costumes. Guess what I have on our lesson plans for this and next week. Indian costumes of course. My oldest daughter prefers to be self driven. She doesn't like me telling her what book to read or what project to do. She likes to decide that herself. Which is very annoying. For math, language, spelling and handwriting I make her do what is in her books. However science and a little more flexible subjects. So I came to a conclusion. I will let her pick her project from some choices that I preset. For example, with the indian unit I would like her to read a fictional indian related book. So today I took her to the library and helped her find a book and I am going to let her choose a book report style that she wants to use. I got a book last year called "Better Than Book Reports." It has all kinds of different ideas on reporting on the information in a book other than a traditional report. So I am just going to let her choose. That way she feels more in control and I get her to do the report.
As for the littlest she is just great. I was curious how much information she picks up just from being in the class room all the time. I asked her "if 8 + 8 = 16 then what is 16 - 8?" She very quickly responded with "8!" So I thought that was a lucky guess and repeated the question with 2 + 2 and 3 +3. She got it right!!!
So that is a little update on our little school. We are still hangin' in there! |
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Oct. 23, 2007 - tag
I'm tagging you - so in your spare time (ha!)
The assignment is to write 7 true things about yourself, link back to me, and then send this to 7 of your friends.
I'll look forward to seeing your post! Tori