Language arts ~ week 1

Now we moved our attention back to 

learning our letters.  

This time we are focusing on lower case.

Matthew has been going crazy to learn lowercase

letters.  He sees words in print and all around and wants

to try to sound them out, but without the familiarity to 

the lowercase it is really hard.  

Finally, we got to learn about them!

We talked about letters and matched 

up the big and little letters.  

I wrote them out on big sheets of 

paper.  We looked at them a lot to 

become familiar. 

We read two fairy tales this week and

did them in a two day rhythm.  

First, I told the story

The next day we recounted it and drew about it.

We wrote a short summarizing sentence.

We used our alphabet properly for practice.

Sample work

We practiced and practiced our lower case 

all week.

We also changed up some of our time with movement.

I attempted to teach the children the beginnings of juggling.

They had a lot of fun with this!!


We also took advantage of our unseasonably warmer
weather and climbed trees. 

The big highlight of the week was my Mr. Wesley
turned 5 years old!!
He wanted to skate for his birthday so we celebrated
with a hockey party!

Happy big 5

until next week
~blessings

Math ~ week 3

 This week of math was a re-cap 

on everything we learned so far.

Then, the addition of our last 

process...

division 

 First, we discussed it through our 

squirrel story.

We worked out new concepts with our 

nuts.  Drew pictures...

6 divided by 2 = 3

Finally, we worked out problems.

Matthew has a lot of fun with this.

He really loves the challenge of 

figuring out the math problems.

By the end of the week he could do all the 

processes.  I am so proud of his progress:)

We used the jewels to work through the 

problems.  He likes to figure it out in his 

head the best though.

Santa brought Matthew a chess game and 

this week we brought that out.  

Now he is unstoppable!!!

He can already beat the pants off me and his father.

The queen is his favorite piece on the board, but

Here is the real queen of the house

Next week we return to 

language arts.

until then...

~blessings

Math ~ week 2

We continued on with our introduction

to the processes this week.  Although we also celebrated our 

Christmas over the weekend.  It made it a little more 

interesting ( aka busy).  We can not take a holiday break 

this year due to the late January bambino.

So, we are plowing through our curriculum 

as much as possible until I am out of commission.

We started out the week by recapping our 

squirrel story of Addition and Subtraction.

They really love practicing with 

plus and minus.

Then, I complicated things this week and brought in

Multiplication.

This was way to abstract for Wesley.

Matthew did catch on fairly quickly

and he really seemed to enjoy it.

Tom was home this week too so

he was able to help me with all this math.

Which I welcomed immensley.

We let all this new information rest for the 

weekend and started our Christmas celebration 

early.  Our family stayed away from home enjoying 

some R and R at a hotel attached to a waterpark and

of course a skating rink!

Boys

Hot Cocoa

Dad on skates too!

After all this we went into our traditional 

celebration.  It was a wonderful way to 

kick off our holiday.  We had so much fun.

I hope everyone else had a great holiday too.

until next week

~blessings