Math ~ week 1

This week we began introduction to the 

four processes.

Addition

Subtraction

Multiplication

and 

Division

I followed our chosen curriculum

and this first week we focused on

Addition and Subtraction.

These were introduced through a story.

The story was of a squirrel family and nuts.

To clearly illustrate we brought out nuts.

We added with nuts and took away with nuts.

We drew pictures of our story and our math.

The steps were...

first with the physical nuts 

then with a drawn representation

then with our number symbol.

They caught on fairly quickly and we had fun practicing 

our nut problems.

We also enjoyed our time outside this week.

The lake behind our house finally has enough ice 

and we were invited to a friends pond!

The boys love to skate.

Merry Christmas everyone!

until next week

~Blessings

Nature

I have to say I like working in these blocks.

The children work really hard on something and 

then we can switch gears.  It really is a breathe in 

breathe out kind of schedule.  

This week was a nature week.

nature is a big breathe out for me.

More of a sigh :)

We sort of relax this week.

We made cookies

And proceeded to eat them ALL!

We took walks and made Christmas pine cones.

We made a new nature table

AND...

We celebrated a wedding and
our Christmas with part of our family too.

Nature was a good week:)

until next week

~Blessings

L.A. ~week 2

Now that all the letters have been 

introduced we worked on sentences.

We would write out a sentence on one page

with an accompanying illustration on the other.

Then, we practiced writing out our alliterative 

verses.  I worked on sight recognition of some words

( The, of, and...)

One day was devoted to seeing Santa

we went with my dad to the mall of America

we saw Santa, went to Lego land, and underwater world.

We had lunch at the Rain forest cafe and Tillie was terrified of

all the mechanical animals!

We celebrated two Saints this week as well.

December 6th is St Nicholas day.

I read lots of stories of Nicholas and the children 

woke to find coins in their boots!

We also celebrated Santa lucia.

Along with my Mother we brought the children

to a concert put on by the Swedish institute.

It was really nice and a gentle introduction to 

Swedish tradition.  

Matthew worked on his recorder more 

this week and he learned his first song!

Next week is a nature week.

We need this to organize before 

Christmas!  

until next week

~blessings

L.A. Week 1

We went back to our language arts 

lessons now.  We continued with our story

of the prince and his quest to be king.

We had a lot of recapping.  I had Matthew

remember and retell the story.  Then I introduced the last of our 

letters. 

X  Y  Z

Were the three shepards

C (Cat)
and
N (Needle)

The story came to an end and we worked on these new letters.


We did more recorder practice.
He learned new notes and we worked on songs
and reading music.

He was able to attend Chinese again after a little
Thanksgiving break.  Now they have been learning
different body parts, like eyes, nose and mouth.
What really gets a laugh around here is the Chinese
word for hair is pronounced like toefat. 

He still is going crazy with hockey.
We just joined another league and he still plays
every week with his uncle Chad.



We went out and found our Christmas tree this week too.

Here are the highlights...

Hot cider

Santa

Authentic Teepee

I have also tried to get us back in the spirit of the
season and we started reading our advent book again.
But the tree should really help:)

Next week we do another week of
language arts.


He's not going to be able to do this much longer!

good night!

until next week

~blessings