Feb. 26, 2009 - A change of pace
While Mason was doing great with the Phonics Pathways reading curriculum, I saw the need for him to memorize 'sight words.' So ( in the beauty of homeschooling) we put the book away for a while, and have changed directions to learning sight words. We start each week with six new words from this list (FYI the words begin on page 152) and build on the ones from the previous weeks. We've used a few different fun ways for him to work on them, such as:
* Sight word BINGO
* Snowball fight --the words are written on crumbled up peices of paper and tossed with a partner.
* Basketball--played with the same papers as above, if you can read the word you get to attempt a basket.
* Painting sight words
* Hide and Find---if you find one, and can read it you get a prize. Our prizes were raisins.
* Hopscotch---sort of, we made a large grid with the words in chalk on the driveway. Each player took a turn by tossing a rock to a word and reading it.
We're started a new artist and composer study. The kids painted 'The Wanderer above the Mists' by Caspar David Friedrich, while listening to Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2 by Franz Liszt.
Our last beak in our continuing winter bird study was the water strainer. Here's Payden illustrating how they work. We're now moving onto bird feet.
This is sweet Logan, who said to me "It's ebwefing gween day Mom."
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Feb. 26, 2009 - Untitled Comment
Posted by Anonymous
that little logan is too cute for words
