Lesson 2 (Moon)

I'm a little behind, but I am going to try to back track the weeks I've missed and get better about staying on track.
Christian loved learning the phases of the moon. This weeks book were Little Bear and Goodnight Moon. The kids loved making there own Goodnight Moon book. They walked around all week sing This Little Light of Mine. I love hearing them sing. I didn't realize how hard it would be to remember all the things we did when I got behind. So these might be short.

Lesson 1 (sun)

We had a great week! They loved the noodle art, but maybe that is because they got to eat the noodles that they didn't use. Christian and Riley both did really good on there sun and letter s.
Christian is really trying to learn the sound of the letter of the week. That is great because he has never cared about there names. It will all come in time. He is still little.

We got to make a sundial this week. They loved going out to check it. We watched it all day today. We also got to go outside and make shadows. We read the book Bear Shadow to go along with learning about the sun. They really enjoyed the story and going back though it the see all the was bear tried to get rid of his shadow.

We also had music today. They listened to a Mozart song and tried to balance a bean bag on there head. They thought it was fun.

They beg to do school all the time and they talk about how they love there teacher :) We are all loving homeschooling. It has been the best thing for our family.

Poor Eli is still having trouble with all the changes but it will all get better with time. I am looking for Eli so special toys that he can only play with during school time to see if that helps.


Next week we get the learn what m says and about the moon!

Christian wrote his name!!!

Yay! Christian finally wrote his name from memory! Now time to work on the order :) This has been a great week. I love being here with my kids everyday. It is so much fun to see there face light up when they learn something new. Christian can't stop talking about the letter "s". He is saying words slower so he can listen and see if there is a "s" in it. He wants to read so bad.

Week 1 Sun

We started week 1 (sun) yesterday. It has been a great week. Christian loves knowing that he is learning the letter sounds so he can read. Riley gets to do letter projects while I work with Christian on the reading plan. Annie is taking her morning nap during all this so poor Eli is feeling left out. I need to find a way to include him more. Maybe it's time to make Eli a basket of things to do during school time? I will find something that works. Other than that it was been going great. I love watching them learn new things. Right now we are seeing how long it takes to make raisins. They are making a chart of what they look like everyday. Tomorrow they get to paint a sun!! Eli will do that with us.

Slow week!

This week is going so slow. At least it is almost over. We are going to finish up our lapbooks tomorrow! They are having so much fun making there "books". When we started school today they asked first thing if they could work on there books. We start learning about the sun on Monday. O and we start phonic. It will be a lot of fun. Christian still isn't picking up all the letter names. We are playing games letter games and reviewing everyday, so I know it will all start clicking soon.

Creation Numbers Poster!!

We have finished the creation unit in MFW. My kids know the days of creation better than I ever did. It is so awesome to hear them talking about it. Since we have time this week we are working on a creation lapbook. They are having so much fun and can't wait to put it all together.
It has been so much fun to get up every morning and spend a couple hours working with the boys. It works out perfect because Annie likes to take a nap right after breakfast. Everything is going really good except Christian still doesn't know the names of all the letters (I guess it will come in time). He does know a couple more than he did a couple of weeks ago.

Our first week Homeschooling

We are using My Father's World K. It was and exciting first week. We painted, colored, and even we on a field trip. My kids are loving it. They beg to do school all the time. They even have added how much they like there teacher :) We have one more week of Creation. Since it is going to be a slower week we are going to add a creation lap book to give my kids more "school" since that is all they want to do.
Our field trip was to Deanna Rose Farmstead with some friends. It was a great first field trip! My kids want to know when we can go back.