• Aug. 18, 2008
Today's Highlights
We had another decent day of school today. If we keep this up, I might just think I can do this whole homeschool thing.
John did math with Taylor today so that probably contributed to the good day. He did a good job of showing her how to round last week after I had tried for 45 minutes without getting through. Today she started learning how to estimate the answer to an addition problem. I personally do not think she is ready for this. She just doesn't understand the concept of estimation, but I figured John could give it a try. She did struggle, but we'll give it another day or two to see if she catches on. If not, we'll put it on hold for a little while.
Spelling worked out well today. I tested Taylor on the words. then she studied the ones she missed and wrote them a couple of times each. After that we played Spelling Stomp which pretty much just involved stomping on the letters that spell your word. John and I made the foot letters this morning.
Yup, Spelling Stomp was a hit!
Taylor read to me in history today because my throat is still hurting due to my cold. Today we were reading about Julius Caesar so we are back to the Roman empire. We chose to make a Roman mosaic, but got tired of glueing the beans/tiles long before the whole page was covered. Maybe we will finish tomorrow, but probably not. I think it's as done as it's going to get.
Comments
• Aug. 19, 2008
mosaics
Posted by Gr8one2no
I remember doing this with my first mosaic project, and my kids getting burnt out rather quickly. However, we've done them many times since, with great success, using either a 3x5 or 4x6 index card.
Actually, my kids have enjoyed them so much that I bought the pre-glued sticky paper.
