Wrapping Up Week 1

Here is a recap for the two days that I did not blog....

Hunter did the letter "F" on Wednesday and Thursday. She knows the letters A-F so far. Rayanne is concentrating on reading for now. 

Today, we went to the library and picked up books for next week. They coordinate with the  letter that we are doing... the letter "G" and "H". We are going to read about horses and goats. We then came home and at lunch. After Silas laid down, the girls and I made Dirt Pudding..recipe is at then of this entry. They had fun filling the cups with layers of oreo cookie and pudding mix. This activity was to be part of letter review for letter "D". 

On a personal note..I hope I am doing everything right. Over all the week went really well and I have figured out things that work and got more organized. It just feels really weird because kids go to school for 8 hours a day, and being raised going to public school...I feel like I am not spending enough time doing school work. But everything I read says that I am pretty on course with how much time it takes.I am so glad I am doing this. I really enjoy seeing my kiddos learn...they love doing school. 

Goals:
~ To finish by Memorial weekend
~ To school Mon-Thurs, with Friday being a fun (Educational of course) day and library day..
~ Have more creative ways to teach

Well..can't think of much more to write..HAVE A BLESSED LABOR DAY WEEKEND!

Dirt Pudding

1 pkg Oreo cookies
1 8oz pkg Cream Cheese
1 8oz Cool Whip
2 3.5 oz Instant Vanilla Pudding
1/4 Cup butter
2/3 Cup Powdered Sugar
Gummy Worms

Mash cookies to dirt size cumbs and set aside.
Cream butter (Crisco), cream cheese and sugar.
Mix Pudding per instructions on box.
Fold butter mixture into pudding - fold in cool whip.

Layer Oreo dirt & Mixture.
Gummy worms on top or throughout whatever you want to do.

Ee is for Elephant......

Today Hunter finished up the letter "E". I like to give each letter 2 days and on the last day we do a review..so two letters a week. So far she knows up to "E". We did a elephant hand craft....both girls made one and had fun painting their whole hand brown to form the elephant. For Rayanne...she did the reading for day 3 in GR2, practiced writing the letter "T", which she knows how to do, but she liked doing it. I am hoping that things will pick up soon for her. I think she needs to be challenged a bit more. I am also doing research and trying to find a happy medium for her. But..the first year is all about trial and error..right?

Also..today I waited and we worked on school stuff while Silas was asleep. It was nice to be able to give them my undivided attention. It worked out great. I do want to expand and do more stuff.. like themes. So as I get comfortable..I will be adding more stuff. Right now I am doing things the traditional way...and just focusing on the basics and will work up from there.

I am waiting to hear back from a home school group with information about their group. It is smaller than the one I was looking at originally. My goal is to be apart of a group by this weekend.

Tomorrow..heading to the library..hopefully..Rayanne has been saying she doesn't feel good.

God's Blessing...

School In Session

Well..Today went like any other day...Kids had breakfast and played for awhile. We then sat down at the table and started doing school work. Hunter is on letter "E". Rayanne started in GR2 (Getting Ready 2). She seemed to be pretty content with what I started her on. We did the first 2 days of school work..and that was plenty. It is a bit easy for her but I feel confident about starting her in GR2...we will see what the future will bring.

The reality hasn't set in yet that  they will be schooled at home. I am sure once public school has started then it will..or maybe after a few weeks it will set in. I am in a chat group for Easy Peasy curriculum. I was told a few great links from a lady that is in the group...here they are...
https://www.spellingcity.com/ 
http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html. 

I should probably back up and let you all know what curriculum that I am using...It is called Easy Peasy All in One Home school...here is the link http://allinonehomeschool.com/.
It is completely free and is a Christian curriculum.

All in all...nothing very exciting happened. Library day Wednesday and have to sign up for Valley Home Schoolers for field trips.

God's Blessing....

Getting Back in the Groove

Well...It has been really busy this last month and I did get off track from schooling. I was up north with the kids and had no internet connection..ok.... so I lied..I had my data plan but was on restriction. We have been home for a few weeks and are now in the swing of things. I am now working on getting the curriculum ready and doing a major purge of all the clutter in the house. I want to start this year with the least amount of stress and clutter. I am also working on putting together freezer crock pot meals so that I can just pull one out of the freeze and put it into the crock pot and forget about it.

One challenge that I am running into right now is figuring out were Rayanne falls in the curriculum. The first year of Easy Peasy (EP) is actually a grade ahead. Then I tried the Getting Ready 1 at day 172 and that was not enough. She was looking for work sheets to do. Both the kids love doing work sheets. Then I looked at Getting Ready 2. She knows the stuff in GR2..but after carefully thinking about and reaching out for advice..I am going to start her in GR2, a lot of it will be review..but I am sure some where along the line it will get more challenging. I explained to her that it was going to be review and will be easy at first but will get more challenging as we go along...oh and another deciding factor is that GR2 has work sheets but less of them..so she is getting the balance. Hope this make since.

We are "offically" starting on Monday. I have been doing things on and off but will be in a regular schedule on Monday...

God's  Blessing till next time....

P.S...We have also started our daily devotional using Keys for Kids...and Awana starts on Sept 10th