By the Book - Bring-your-daddy-to-school Day

By the Book

9.8.2007

Bring-your-daddy-to-school Day

We have decided that once a month or so will be Bring-your-daddy-to-school Day. This will be a planned Saturday, where Daddy will sit in on a day's lesson. The girls will get to show Daddy what they are learning, and Daddy can participate in the learning process. This will allow me to have some of his opinions on things that I may be missing while I'm concentrating on teaching. It will also allow me to show him exactly what goes on in a "typical" school day.

So, today was the first of these special days. We had the tree project to finish up, so he got to help me design the trunk the night before. For lessons 2-7, K scoured magazines looking for pictures of certain colors to glue to her tree leaves. I cut them out, she glued. Then, today we got to take the six colored leaves and make them into a big tree. Here are some pictures:

The whole week was actually quite productive for school this week. My plan of splitting the day up into a morning lesson and an afternoon lesson seems to have done the trick, as far as K's attention span. There are still some parts that she does not seem to enjoy as much as others, but for the most part, she is very enthusiastic when I say it's time for school. We did two days of school in the kitchen, and she was extremely excited that now she has TWO schoolrooms!

For three days we worked on different reading concepts, such as prediction and order. One art project that went along with that was to draw three separate pictures of what you do during your day, in order. Here's what K drew:

1. Sausage breakfast with Daddy.
2. Enjoy my family while playing.
3. Go to bed.

Here's a video of her drawing #2:

Drawing Daddy

And finally, here are some other pictures from the week. I gave her the pattern blocks to play with for a few minutes, and instantly she made patterns with them. This was not prompted in any way! Notice they are not just in an AB pattern, either. (Can you see how proud I am of my smart little cookie???)

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9.14.2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by quietcajun

I love this idea!

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9.17.2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Aunt Jill

Very groovy. You are doing a great job.

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