By the Book

7.20.2007

Weekly Updates

As my ultimate goal is to update everyone on our homeschooling activities on Fridays, I figured it would be good to start this week. I am starting to add a few more activities to the daily routine to better prepare the girls for the August 27th deadline! (Which is sneaking up very fast!!!) K has been working in a book called Reading and Writing from the Learn Every Day series that is published by Learning Horizons. She has been doing an average of four pages per day, off and on for several months now. It's actually meant to be done one page per day over the course of a year, but if anyone tried to get her to only do one page, they would see that she'll have none of it! To add some more activity into K's learning, I have started to use the Calvert Math book along with Reading and Writing. We have done three lessons this week, along with the practice worksheets that Calvert provides. They are not necessary to the lesson, just provided for extra practice. We are actually going to be using Saxon K for math this year, so the Calvert math materials are an added bonus to us. My plan is to continue using them until the school year starts, and then use them again as extra enrichment as needed. They will probably be used next summer as a great activity to keep things fresh in her mind. I will also probably pull the worksheets out for something to occupy her while I work with her sister. Holly is not going to have any "formal" activities at the beginning of the year, but seeing how she is such a mime of her sister, I'm sure she will want to participate at some point. What we have been doing this week is having her sit in on things with us until she looses interest. She has her own paper, colored pencils, and crayons, and has been making beautiful creations out of circles and lines! I have been working with her on colors and letters lately. She seems to have a good grasp on most of the colors. She also knows most of her letters, although it is still hard for me to get her to tell me what more than two or three of them are at any one sitting. She is going through a new phase where she repeats me. I'll say something like, "Which one of these is purple?" and I hear an echo back, complete with the same hand gestures. Maybe my approach should be just saying things I want her to know! Well, that is my first brief synopsis of our first week of school-day preparation! Oh, and here's a picture of K's latest alphabet: *She wanted her foot in the picture. I'm not sure why.

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