• Sep. 22, 2009
Taylor's Tuesday Dialogue

I'm really very proud of Taylor's work today, so I told her I would put it on my blog.  She did it with a happy heart- that's the best part.  But her handwriting was much better, she indented in all the right spots, she lined up her other lines with the left margin, she looked up every word she didn't know how to spell, AND I feel like she's getting the hang of writing quotes!  Yeah!

She worked very hard on this.  It took her 45 minutes, no joke.

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• Sep. 21, 2009
Our Own Language Arts

I've tried to make up our own LA program this year because I couldn't find one that I thought would work for us.  I really wanted it to go along with what we are already studying about in science and history.  I also wanted it to have a lot of dictation, and spelling that was customized to Taylor.  This is our LA plan for this week.  I really need some feedback.  Is this the right workload for a 3rd and a half grade student?  I don't want just busy work, but I do want enough repetition for her to learn.  We are also doing a lapbook based off the pilgrims and early colonists, but this is the main writing.  What do you think?

Dictation page 73, 2^nd paragraph, Stories of the Pilgrims 

“If we were in America we could make homes such as we had in England.  We could have our own church, and bring up our children to love and serve God,” said Elder Brewster.

Monday- study selection and do dictation.  Correct mistakes.  Add misspelled words to spelling list.  Add any other words that need worked on up to 10 words.  I try to pick words with the same patterns as the ones missed from dictation.  Write each word 3 times in a fun way.  (On window, in sand, with magnetic letters, etc)

Tuesday- Quotations work.  Write a dialog between 2 people working on all aspects of quotations- commas, quotation marks, capital letters, end punctuations, separate paragraphs for new speakers, etc.  Play spelling stomp.

Wednesday- Dictate selection again without child seeing it first.  Correct mistakes and talk about why they were made.  Use all spelling words in only one or two sentences.

Thursday- Compound sentences and conjunctions.  Watch Conjunction Junction http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/lambchop/418483/ http://www.abcteach.com/free/w/wksht_grammar_compoundsentences.pdf choose 5 or six sentences to combine.  Spelling quiz.  Study misspelled words.

Friday-  Final Dictation.  Spelling Test.  Writing from another subject.

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• Jun. 10, 2009
2009-2010 School Schedule

OK, I think this will be Taylor's final school schedule for next year. 

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• Apr. 27, 2009
Limericks!

I borrowed a book from the library called A Child Introduction to Poetry by Michael Driscoll.  From that book we learned a little about the history of limericks and how to make them.  There was also several example limericks given.  Some are quite funny!

Anyway, I chose to do limericks today because we've never really delved into writing poetry before and I thought these might be simple and fun.  I was right!  Taylor was not too enthused at first, until she read some of the samples.  The her creative juices got flowing.  Here's a picture of her very first limerick.

It says:

There once was a man with a very large belly.
Who had a wife whose name was Telly.
Telly tried to make the belly skinny.
She gave up and gave him a penny.
So instead, he got sticky with jelly.

Cute, isn't it?  In case your wondering, the big purple blob is his big belly smeared with grape jelly and the gray things surrounding it are his arms which must wrap the belly in order to hold it up.

Then I made one up.  Please don't laugh at my picture.

Here is the other limerick Taylor wrote.  She didn't make a notebooking page for this one.

There was a cat.  His name is Kitty.
But I had a dog. He bit the kitty.
The kitty cried for help.
The dog let out a yelp.
Then on the dog I had pity.

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• Apr. 14, 2009
Math Update

If you follow my blog at all, you probably know about our math struggles.  We have used a TON of math programs trying to find something that works.  We finally settled on Bob Jones math for a while, but now it's moving into division and I don't feel like Taylor is ready for that.  Honestly, she understands the concepts pretty well, and she has place value down pat.  You can't trip her up- I've tried.

The problem is that she is still so S-L-O-W at her computation.  It would take her literally 5 minutes to do two simple 7+4 or 8-2 type problems.  She understands the concept of multiplication and can figure out the answer to every problem up till the sevens because she has learned skip counting up to her 6's.  But she in no way has the facts memorized.

Right now in my house I have Bob Jones math grades 1,2,3, and 4.  I also have Miquon Math (the whole set), an absolute TON of math manipulatives and various books and games, and most recently I have also bought Mastering Mathmatics.  I probably have more that I've forgotten about.  That is some pretty big bucks spent on math products.

Like I said, my most recent purchase was Mastering Mathematics.  For the week prior to getting it in the mail, I had been doing Miquon starting all the way back at the beginning with the Orange book.  Let me tell you, math has been GREAT!  I'm hearing things like, "Math is the best!  It's my favorite!" or "I love math!"  There are giggles and laughs instead of tears.  She is going through 9-12 pages a day.  I'm setting a timer for 30 minutes and having her do as many pages as she can in that time.  I catch her stopping the timer because she wants to do more.  Is this the same girl??

I am seriously considering letting her finish the series.  When we tried it in 1st grade, she HATED it.  I really liked it, which is why I've kept it these years.  A lot of it is review, but it does cover advanced concepts.  The very first book has some multiplying and dividing.  It seems to me to be right on her level.  Some of the problems challenge her and a lot make her really think, but it's not so hard that she is frustrated.  Isn't that where the learning level should be?  I'm just stressing a bit because it's considered "1st grade level."  John thinks we should stick with what's working.  I don't know why I let these things bug me.  After all, one reason we homeschool at all is so that we're able to tailor a curriculum to meet Taylor's needs and not try to make her fit somebody else's mold.  I guess I just need to know that I'm doing the right thing and that she IS learning.  I need to be reminded sometimes that academics is just one slice of the pie and not the complete product we're working toward.  OK, maybe I just reminded myself.  It can be really helpful to put your thoughts down in writing.

Thanks for journeying through my mind with me!

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• Apr. 8, 2009
New Files to Share!

Thank you to the ladies who gave me ideas about how to share my files with others!

I decided to go with the Homeschool Launch website.  If you want to view my personal page, just click here.

I'm going through my documents to see what I've already made that might be helpful to other homeschoolers.  If you will look to the left at my sidebar, you will see a little black box with direct links to the files that I'm sharing.  It is supposed to update itself as I upload more files.  We'll see how it works!

If you have any requests, let me know.   

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• Apr. 8, 2009
How to Share Files

Does anyone know of a way I can share lesson plans, forms, books, etc that I make for our use?  I put quite a bit of time into them and they might be useful to someone else, but I don't know how to make them available easily from my blog.  I prefer something that is free and without any inappropriate advertising.  If you have any ideas, please let me know!

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• Mar. 4, 2009
Molecules and Elements

Would you like to know a secret?  I thought you might, you nosy person you!   OK, here it is.  Up until the last month, we had not done science all year long.  Whew, now that's off my chest.

I was actually talking about science and history with some moms in the new co-op we joined.  Some ladies feel bad because they haven't done anything but basics all year.  Some have only done basics, but are perfectly fine with that.  Me, well lets just say that if it weren't for the "extras" that we can do, Taylor would have been sent to public school long ago.  Science, history, art, and hand crafts keep me sane in our homeschool.  The 3 r's may be necessary, but they certainly aren't fun.  I'm tired of trying to make them fun.  I think I'm to the point where I just say, "Look, I don't care if you like it or not.  You're just going to do it."  Then I can put my energy into the fun stuff and not feel like a failure all the time.  So yes, we do a lot of projects and extra things in school, but it's certainly not because I'm some sort of supermom.  It's simply because if I didn't take the time for that, we would never survive the day.

That being said, I found this great book last year at Goodwill for 50 cents.  It's called Super Science Concoctions and it's full of chemistry experiments and activities.  I wanted to study chemistry this year so we are using this for our base text and also supplementing with the chemistry lapbook from Hands of a Child.  It's going really well so far.  We made these model elements and molecules out of colored marshmellows.  Taylor said, "Hey, I didn't know you could make stuff in science to!"   My poor deprived child has been given so much history that she didn't even know there was a great world of science out there also.

Here's our first molecule.  It's pretty cool how 2 gases put together can make water.

And most impressive is our glucose molecule.  This one's a doozy.

Of course when we were done building, we got to eat some marshmellows too.  Not the used ones of course.  They were all hard and yucky, but the ones in the bag were still perfectly good. 

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• Oct. 8, 2008
Weekly Highlights

Here are pictures from some of last week's school highlights.

Playing with pattern blocks during preschool.  These things are useful for all sorts of prek concepts- colors, counting, shapes, differences, etc  Isaac did a great job on his car!  An almost daily occurance in preschool has been the Kumon books of cutting and one of tracing.

More Preschool!  This is fingerpainting the letter B.  Here's our rhyme from Little Hands to Heaven for the letter B.

2 big bears got on the boat (hold up 2 fingers).
The rain came down (wiggle your fingers down)
and the boat did float (hands move back and forth)
. B B B (b sound while hugging yourself)
The animals played and played (fingers as ears on top of your head).
And Noah heard the big bears say (cup hand over ear)
Grrr! (hands around mouth)

This is a bridge that Taylor built using a challenge posted at this website.  It's a truly awesome website for kids- one of the best I've ever seen.  We can't wait to meet more challenges.  Taylor got her bridge to hold 60 pennies.  Then daddy and I tried our hand at it.  I got 270 pennies and thought I was big business until John came along and used all 500 of our pennies and his bridge still hadn't collapsed!

Here's a video we made after trying out a cool trick that we saw on You Tube.

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• Oct. 7, 2008
Who Will Your Kids Be?

I went to my first AGAPE support group meeting last night.  The speaker was Misty Spinelli who owns a homeschool company out of the Charlotte, NC area called Growing Scholars. 

She related homeschooling to baking bread, but the thing that stood out most in my mind was the first part, the recipe.  In a recipe, you have a finished product in mind.  Misty said that we are homeschooling, not for our childrens sake, but for the sake of the adults that they will become.  I've never given that due consideration.  Of course I'm homeschooling for my children's sake.  I want them protected in body and in spirit.  I want to be able to tailor a curriculum to suit them and not make them fit into a mold that they were not made for.  I want to be able to nurture their God-given gifts and abilities while helping them learn how to overcome their personal weaknesses.  Of course I'm homeschooling for the children's sake.  But am I really?  Is this the extent of what I want for my kids?  To what end?  Is their childhood the sum of all that I want for them?  Am I not concerned with who they will be when they are responsible for themselves and their decisions have more impact than deciding what game should be played today? 

Misty gave us an exercise to do with our husbands.  It seems to me that it is an important one and worthy of our time.  In your mind picture your child as an adult of 20 years.  Who do you want them to be?  What is important to you that they know?  Write these down.  Go ahead and do it.  At least make a mental list before you read any further.  I'll wait...

OK

I'm sure that a lot of our answers will be the same.  Now look at that list and notice what percentage of these things is academic.  Probably not many.  It really helped me when Misty compared our kids to a pie.  (He he, sorry I just got a funny picture in my head!)  Academics are just one slice of the pie.  They are certainly not the biggest slice, just a regular old slice.  Now that slice is important.  You want it's quality to be just as good as the rest of the pie, but it is not the main thing to concentrate on.  If your daily focus is 7/8 on academics you made need to consider your ingredients.  Have your book learning, but put it in it's proper perspective.

Pretend that like me, one of the qualities that you want for your children is for them to be a servant.  Then you need to add that ingredient to your recipe!  They will not grow up naturally with a heart for service.  Who does?  It needs to be shown to them.  Taught to them.  Done with them side by side.  Helping with a soup kitchen once or twice a year is not going to cut it.  Make it a regular part of your life.  Once, twice, three times a week.  Now, before you say you don't have time for that, consider again the recipe, the finished product, the pie.  What is most important?

Take your list to God.  What does He say?  Who does He want your kids to be?   No person is perfect, but we all have strengths.  God has a plan for us all, even the smallest one among us.  As you go through your day, THINK about the end product.  Does it matter if your child has not memorized that thing you've been struggling with for over a month?  How much of that month of memorizing could have had a better purpose?  What will it profit their soul?  Be careful not to get so caught up in the agenda for today that you forget the goal.

Please know that I am speaking to myself in a big way here.  It's so easy for me to get bogged down in what seems to me to be important at the time, but has no eternal reward.

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• Oct. 6, 2008
Gravity

Here is a video that Charity and I made at the park last week.  I must confess that she did most of the work on this one.  Thanks Charity!  This video is part of thewoons video challenge zone where Charity gives us a new topic each week to come up with videos on.

If you haven't checked it out yet, go see the new HomeschoolViewTube.  The videos are moderated and it's clean, fun, and educational.  There's not much there yet, but it's growing every day.  Enjoy!

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• Sep. 30, 2008
A School Update

Things are going well for the most part.  I'm really enjoying spending more time with the kids just talking and playing.  I'm not constantly rushing them to get done with what they are doing so that we can get to the next thing.  Instead, I'm trying to take my time and really listen to what they have to say.  I must admit that this is not easy for me.  I tend to want to make myself heard and then move on without having any regard for their thoughts.  Shame on me!  But I am doing better.  Hopefully this will become habit and I won't have to work so hard at it.

We've played more games together the last few weeks than I can remember playing in the last few years.  And while we are playing we are having fun, not just trying to win or finish the game.  Almost every day Taylor reminds me that it's time for loving each other.  She really is very snuggly.

Our Bible and character training times are really merging together, but this might be a good thing.  It will help when we add other subjects back in.  Right now we are studying diligence.  We are also doing a family devotion after supper each night.  This really needs some spicing up.  The kids just want to get it over with so they can go play and it's turning into drudgery.  I don't want to just go through the motion.

I need some new ideas for serving others.  We've done cards, baking, pictures, letters, and outdoor chores.  Any suggestions?

We finished the first section in Growing with Grammar so I'm probably going to do a writing unit next.  Spelling is going well using the right-brain methods.  Math is still just so-so.  Some days are better than others.  My friend Charity made this video that is a very good picture of math at our house on most days.  She knows of our math woes so we were part of her inspiration. 

I  am really missing history.  Especially when I look at Kristen's blog and see all the fun that she is having with history projects.  Maybe we will be able to add it back in soon!

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• Sep. 22, 2008
Why Do Leaves Change Their Color?

Here's a video that Charity and I did together using a song from Singing Science Records.  We hope to make videos with several of these songs so stay tuned! 

Taylor and Isaac were playing with Legos in the living room while I was working on the video and they picked up on the song just from it playing in the background.  Painless learning-I love it!

If the video is not showing up for you, here is the link to it's spot on homeschool view tube.

http://www.HomeschoolViewTube.com/video/98/Why-Do-Leaves-Change-Their-Colors

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• Sep. 13, 2008
Writing Woes Solved

Well, OK.  Maybe the writing woes are not solved, but I hope we at least have some stepping stones!

As I’ve been reading up on right brain learning, I’ve been learning all kinds of interesting ideas that I hope will really help Taylor.  For instance, I’ve learned how to tell if you are left eye dominant or right eye dominant.  It’s really quite easy.  Just cut a small hole in the center of a piece of paper then have your child find something through the hole while their arms are fully extended holding the paper.  After they have their target tell them to hold the paper very still while you go behind them and cover up each eye one at a time.  If the target disappears when you cover the right eye then they are right eye dominant.  If the target disappears when you cover the left eye, then they are left eye dominant.  Pretty simple, but why does it matter?  Good question!

Apparently if you are right handed (right hand dominant) and left eye dominant that can cause some problems with writing.  The same goes for being left handed and right eye dominant.  It’s called being mixed dominant.  Bet you never could have thought of that one. J

If you think you may have a right brain child and you haven’t visited this website yet, do it!  The articles are great and FREE!

The first article I read was Smart Kids Who Hate to Write.  They list symptoms of having a block in the visual/motor system aka- writing.  Taylor had quite a few of the such as letter reversals after age 7, poor spacing in a sentence, writing is slow and hard to do, copywork takes forever, great stories told out loud but not much written down, sloppy writing, and a hard time telling left and right.  Phew, it was like they were sitting here with me watching Taylor work!  There are also some possible solutions listed that I am still learning more about such as exercises to establish a midline.  Sorry I can’t tell you much more about that, I’m still learning myself!

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• Sep. 13, 2008
Right Brain Math

I recently came across this website by Dianne Craft.  She has written several articles about being right brained.  I believe Taylor is as right-brained as they come although before reading up on it I would have thought that the whole right brain/left brain thing was ridiculous nonsense.  Oh boy, have my thoughts changed.

In Mrs. Craft's math article she talks about ways to help right brain children learn the details of math such as the basic math facts.  Apparently RB (right brain- my own abbreviation) kids learn concepts better than they do details.  That has certainly played out in Taylor's life.  We have been working on memorizing her addition/subtraction tables for almost 4 years now and you could count on 2 hands the ones that she can recall.  And we drill math EVERY DAY!  I bought the level one Calculadder for her toward the end of 1st grade and she is still just on her plus fours!  We haven't even touched memorizing subtraction facts and she is in the 3rd grade.

Mrs. Craft gives a few pointers in this area.  She recommends something called touch math which I am not familiar with.  She also gives a couple of ideas in regards to using flash cards- like putting the answer on the FRONT of the flash card (in color) so that they can see the 'whole picture'.  Or using the triangle flashcards.  That way they can picture the numbers together and know when one is missing no matter which one it is.  That would help with addition or subtraction.

The biggest help so far has been the idea to make pictures and stories out of the math facts.  To me, this would seem a huge waste of time and a real struggle to think of.  I knew that I would not be able to come up with different stories for each fact family, so I enlisted my dear little RB daughter's help!  Our entire math lesson on Friday consisted of drawing pictures and thinking of stories.  She was in heaven!  Seriously, I have never seen her so excited about something we've done in school- especially not math.

I explained just a little bit about right brain and left brain.  I told her that I was left brained and she was right brained and that was why sometimes we had a really hard time understanding each other.  I named off some characteristics of RB learners and asked her if that described her.  She was very excited.  Probably because she felt like there was somebody out there who understood her.  I explained what we were going to do in math and that I would need her help because being LB, I was not nearly as creative as her.  She just ate this up.  I think for once she felt like she was smart and could do something well.

I did the first one to give her an idea of what I was talking about.  Here's a picture of the front of the card.

The story on the back goes, "The 8 year old brother and the 3 year old brother love to play in the yard and climb their 11 trees."  Very unimaginative I know considering Taylor is 8 and Isaac is 3 and their favorite past time is climbing trees.  What can I say, I'm left brained!

She took off after this.  I gave her the math fact and she came up with the stories.  We drew the pictures together.  I must admit, even with my mind set on doing this to help HER learn best, I still struggled with wanting her to do things my way.  For instance, I wanted all the numbers lined up just so like they were on my card.  She had other ideas.  Also, her picture with the bats drove me nuts because she insisted that the baby bat had to have a nest and the daddy bat had to be carrying a basket.  I'm very proud of myself for not insisting on my own way.

Here are the other cards we did complete with stories.

Batty Seven went off in search of food for his 2 year old baby bat.  He found a delicious meal of 9 sweet mosquitoes to bring back and share.  Batty 7 ate 7 mosquitoes and baby bat ate 2 mosquitos. 7+2-9

3 thirsty thieves climbed the seven steep stairs to taste the 10 tall smoothies at the top.

Matilda 2 was pregnant with twins when she rode her bike 6 miles to the hospital.  The doctor gave her 8 shots and then she went back home.

The little brown monkey 8 4 yummy bananas and had 12 pieces of banana peel left over.

It took us 1 and a half hours to do 5 cards, but there was no tears and she had fun.  This was much better than the usual one and a half hours for math filled with tears from both of us.  Oh, her Daddy called during math and she actually wanted to tell him what we were doing.  She proceeded to let him know that she was a right head brain and Momma was a left head brain so that meant that she was very creative and liked colors.  Then she told him about the stories she was writing and all the funny pictures.  Ah, sweet success!

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• Aug. 29, 2008
Loving God and Serving Others

It was time for me to plan for our next 6 weeks of school so John and I decided to do something different this go round.  We call it our Loving God and Serving Others School.  We are taking out EVERY subject except the bare basics of math and alternating spelling and grammar.   Then we are spending the rest of our time getting to know God and each other better and doing for others.

Our subjects are

Bible- We are all doing this together (except John).  I’m using a lot of things from the DLTK website and I’m doing it on a preschool level for Isaac and Jazmine.  We make a craft or color a page then read out of the Beginners Bible and talk about the lesson.  Taylor likes to do preschool stuff so she sits with us and does the crafts also.  When that’s done, the little ones go play and Taylor and I sit with her NLT Bible and she reads the lesson from the Bible.  Then we can discuss it a little more in depth.

Copywork- This comes from the Bible or from the friendship book Taylor is reading.  The purpose is purely to work on her handwriting while writing something meaningful.  If we have writing elsewhere in the day, I leave this off.

Discipleship Training- This includes any character or values resources that I find.  (I’m looking for more good, free resources if you know of any.)  Right now she is going through the How to be a Good Friend book that I downloaded from the Homeschool Freebie of the Day website.   Like I said, I’m still on the hunt for more good things in this category

Love One Another-  The purpose of this “subject” is to get to know my kids better.  We might play a game, use a good conversation starter, just find out what they are interested in, etc.

Devotion and Worship- We usually do this after supper with John.  We use either Gather Round the Dinner Fable or Leading Little Ones to God.  Taylor likes the Dinner Fable one better, but Isaac gets more out of the other one.  John leads this. (praise God!)

Serving Others- This is how we end each school day.  Taylor gets to pick who she wants to bless and how she wants to do it.  So far she has made something special using her craft box for one of her friends in the neighborhood and made a card for another friend who had surgery.  We will also be going to a festival close by soon to pass out water and share God’s love.  This is by far her favorite subject!

Then of course we have math, grammar, spelling, and typing (when I remember to have her do it).

I'm still looking for good ways to incorporate Isaac and Jazmine.  Please leave me a comment if you have any ideas.

I really hope that we will grow much closer to God and each other during these next 6 weeks.  The  we will regroup and see what God has in store for us next!

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• 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.

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• Aug. 17, 2008
School Minutes

"What is homeschool like?" you ask.  Trust me, there is a different answer for every time and every person you ask, but here are a couple of enjoyable moments from our homeschool this week.

This is a picture of Taylor doing her math in the teeny tiny corner behind our living room chair.  I was sitting in the chair holding the camera over my head while pointing it down to take the picture.  I had to take several before I actually got one of her face. He he!

Another moment was when we were reading history and Taylor asked me if anyone would ever write a book about us for people to read.  I told her maybe they would if we did something important.  She said, "Yeah!  Like be missionaries." 

"Maybe," I say with a proud Momma heart.

Then she says, "We could even die like that man we read about.  (Jim Elliot with the Auca tribe in South America)  He didn't even fight back, he just held his arms out because he wasn't afraid to die.  Like this."  Then she proceeded to hold her arms out like a cross and fell over backward.

By that time my heart was feeling a little more apprehensive.  I'd like to think that I could be a brave martyr, but I would certainly prefer to not be faced with that choice.  But no, not Taylor.  She's all gung ho about a chance to be remembered in history.  Never mind that I write about her all the time....

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