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Busy Day!Well it's a good thing I got some sleep last night, cause today was BUSY!We don't have all our curriculum for next year yet, but instead of naming a date and starting a full-on timetable at once, we are simply ordering curriculum as we can afford it, and adding it in as it arrives. Today we did reading (we are nearly finished our reading curriculum. Yay!) and maths (she started subtraction today) and we did our first lesson in Science today. Jasmine is doing the 'flying creatures' book from Apologia, and we started by looking at the concept of zoology and taxonomy. Taxonomy was a bit difficult, but she loved looking at the chart of the different groups that animals were in, so that's ok. I bought some drinking straws so we can do the first experiment later this week, she's really looking forward to that. Actually, she really will enjoy this text, it's just there are a couple of preliminaries to get through first. I haven't even told her yet that there's a scavenger hunt to do - she'll just be so excited! I went to the library today to get some more library books for Jasmine too, which she was excited about. She seems to like 'Miffy' at the moment. It's funny, she's reading at a fourth grade level, she can sit down and read a chapter book if she wants to, but really she enjoys reading short books she can read through quickly. The reading level and the physical age of the child are different, and I've had to learn to get out more short books than one or two long books. But I got out five books for her today, and she still read them all in an afternoon. This is too many trips to the library! I don't know what we'll do. I also got out 'Charlotte's Web'. She saw an ad for the movie and I promised her if we read the book first we'll get out the movie. I warned her it's a bit sad, though. I also explained that when we eat meat we are eating an animal. She actually coped with the news pretty well, considering how tenderhearted she is. So I read a couple of chapters to her tonight, and she loved it, she didn't want me to stop. Then tonight we did art by making some Christmas cards. The girls both drew pictures for five cards each, and I glued them onto some green cardboard. I'll write on them in gold pen and post them tomorrow. Actually, that counts under 'socialization' as well, since socialization is the process by which people learn how to effectively socialize with others, and since sending Christmas cards to others at Christmas time is an established social tradition in our country it is important for the girls to learn about it all. See? I might be a newbie, but I'm learning the lingo, lol! We had a really good day. I got stuff done. I feel great. Now Jaidyn is already asleep in his new bed for the night. I pray that he will stay asleep, or at least do what he did last night and just wake up once, before I go to bed. Good night, all. Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 130 of 234 } { Next Page } |
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