Keep Your Tongue from Evil

Have you missed reading my posts? I am finding myself super busy these days. Between doing school with the girls, caring for Silas, and taking care of the house..then I have my photog business and going to school myself, and Church, and Awana...I am pretty busy. But with God's strength I have been able to tackle it all of it.

So..last week we did our usual, letters, reading, math, writing. This week I changed it up a bit. For Hunter, I follow EP pretty closely...but have now added more from the 1+1+1=1. She has a packet that has a bible verse that matches each letter in the alphabet. So this week I added the work from the packet along with EP work. It seems to be just enough for Hunter. I have also slowed down to 1 letter a week. Doing 2 a week seemed a bit fast..she seems to know her letters but I want to really make sure that she knows them. This week was letter "K". The bible verse was "Keep your Tongue from Evil". Of course we talked about what it means...so of course it stuck with them and tattled on each other or used the verse when one of them was not saying something nice.

On to Rayanne.....

I am on the right course now with her. I am happy on where I have her in the curriculum. We did a science lesson this week. We learned about Biotic and Abiotic organisms. Both Rayanne and Hunter caught on to the lesson and they had fun doing the activity. I have also set up an account with xtramath.com..this will help with math for her. Otherwise we did the usual reading, poems, worksheets, hand writing..etc.

Today...was Free Day Friday..we usually go to the library...but went yesterday instead. The girls had their ice cream cards to finish in order to get a free scoop of ice cream. So today we did our first lap book. We did it on Bees. They had a great time doing it and want to do it every week. I have lap books planned for Johnny Apple Seed, Stone Soup, 100th day of School, and the Ancient Egypt (used in the EP lessons).

Well..That is all I have today from the last two weeks. We still have Awana on Tuesdays and WINGS at the Y on Wednesdays.

God's Blessing

Week Three

I am typing this first..while I figure out a name for this blog post..lol

We finished up last week with letter "G" and "H". We also did our usual run to the library on Friday. I love working on reading with Rayanne. Teaching her how to read was one of my fears..but turns out it is one of my favorite things out of home schooling.

Last week I also started cleaning and arranging the basement and converting a section of it into a school area. Jim and I brought their school desks down there. Both Rayanne and Hunter are anxious to do school down there.

We are now in week 3. I have implemented Grade 1 curriculum for Rayanne. I switched out the reading though...day one was a success. I am happy..she seemed to be even happier...more stuff for her to do and more of a challenge. Rayanne did a rhyming work sheet, we read a poem together and found rhyming words, she did her reading, and we also read together and she had to tell me about the story, Math was easy..count to 20..but in the up coming days..we start to work on even and odds, counting to 100...which I think she already know a bit from last year..so it still may be a bit of review..but at least we are doing 1st grade work.There is also a few other subjects that have to be implemented...So I am going to have to sit down and figure out a weekly schedule on what days we are going to do what subjects.

Hunter is still working on learning her letters. So far she has known them except for the letter "G". This week we are on Letter "I" and "J". Hunter is learning to write the letter too.

Our activities start this week..Awana on Tuesday and WINGS on Wednesday afternoons through the home school group.

Well..I suppose that is it for this blog post...I wish it was more interesting and had pictures..but for now this will have to do...Again..if you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to leave them. Oh..and I didn't think of anything creative to name this post...so..it is named Week 3 :-(

God's Blessing

Week 2

I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. We didn't do much. We had 2 wonderful families over on Saturday for a fire and smores. They are also home school families and our kids have become fast friends over the last year.

On the home school front....It was bitter sweet yesterday seeing all of the first day of school photos of friends kiddos..But I quickly snapped out of it and stuck to the fact that I am doing the right thing for my kiddos. Also, yesterday I scored two really nice school desks from a local parochial school that down sized because of low enrollment..I paid $2 a piece. I can't wait to get started on cleaning up my basement and making an area for school. We will have two computers and the two desks and some selves..and a desk for me to start with..over time I am sure stuff will be added.

I also joined a local home school group and signed up for classes that are through the group but held at one of our local YMCAs. The classes start next week Wednesday. Awana also starts next week Tuesday. I am pretty happy with the activities that I have set up for the kids...Between schooling, field trips, library, Awana, and the classes at the YMCA..we will be pretty busy.

On Tuesday we started with the letter "G" and worked on "G" today. We will be moving onto letter "H" tomorrow and Friday..No review day this week because of it being a short week. Also, heading to the library on Friday. I am working on some changes to the curriculum..adding some more challenging stuff for Rayanne..since I am finding out that she can handle harder stuff.

Today while working with the girls while Silas slept..I really was loving teaching them. I felt like I connected with them on a whole different level...seeing it in their eyes that they were learning and I was the one teaching them was an awesome feeling.

Well...I guess that is it for now. It is the hubby's bday, so I am going to go and spend time with him..since he worked late tonight. I hope to update previous blog posts with pictures.

Good Night all and God Bless..please feel free to leave comments..I would love to hear from you.