Homeschool Week In the Life {Jan 20-24}

Another week of school underneath our belts!
This handsome preschooler finished another book in his Rod & Staff ABCD workbook series!

He worked SO hard on this color by number.  His attention is short preschool-sized, so he did it over 3 days time.  Mommy was so impressed with his efforts!

Mia has been working more on blending, segmenting, and letter sounds.

I love teaching reading.

The big kids are reading Caddie Woodlawn and Old Yeller and we're coming round the corner of the Civil War in history.  

In math they are working on area, perimeter, symmetry, diameter, and Venn diagrams.  I'm still very thankful for Teaching Textbooks giving me a break on the subject that isn't my favorite to teach.
Our friends, Gale and Cor, gave us a desk for the math computer and it's perfect!  Maybe I'll paint it this spring - but you all know me.

Mia is beginning to learn adding in math.  Her brain gets it!

 

Natalee and Xavier are continuing their unit on Ecosystems in Science.  This week was a bit of a review on the water cycle (we introduced it last year) and a science experiment to replicate the cycle.  We needed sun for the experiment and didn't have any, so we put the bottles by the heat vent.

Dad worked nights this week, which is always a hard week for us.  

Towards the end of the week we got out the play-doh and the kids spent a couple hours playing together.

Playing sound-o together.  This is a game for Mia's reading curriculum, but everyone enjoys playing with her, and maybe mommy gives a chocolate to the winner (and the runners up).

I also started up piano lessons with Natalee, Xavier, and Mike this week. Mia insists on giving it a go, which I know sounds good, but is actually a little difficult when she's also learning to read right now.  We're going very slowly with her.  The rest had a very successful first lesson and are practicing 20 minutes every day. 

The children had a lot of snow play exercise, free reading, chess matches, imaginative play to round out a solid week of homeschooling.