School is here! I love school. Love school. School at home is different and I am still learning what it looks like for me. This is how we began school this year. I have changed a few things (as i tend to do) but I am excited about the year and having fun with the kids.
This chart changes weekly and has a different verse to memorize, song, letter of the week, number of the week, sight word and lesson. The lessons have brought about a lot of good discussions!
They are so cute!
Scott will be doing lots of activities like these to help with fine motor skills and just for fun!
He also loved his coconut tree!
during his lesson
Of course Ryan wanted to play with Scott's tot stuff too. =)
His story for the week and patterns.
Independent work trays (during Scott's nap). The star trays are for when he is finished with all his work.
Coconut story
Coconut patterns
Letter A fun. Scott did not want to glue these on so that he could eat them!
Ryan enjoyed it too.
A is for Alligator fun!
Here are our goals for the year:
Scott -
- recognize his letters (atleast uppercase)
- learn his ABC song better
- continue to develop a love for being read to often. (with more difficult books)
- learn to OBEY the first time! =) lol
Ryan -
- become familiar with word families, sight words, and reading basic basic books independently.
- Continue to love to be read to!
- Learn some basic math concepts like money, time, patterns, skip counting, and recognizing numbers.
- Learn to correctly form all letters and numbers.
This year we will also be involved in our Co op group where Ryan will be in a writing, reading, and math class with 8-10 other kids his age. Ryan is also involved in Soccer!
Along with these things a big goal for me over the course of the year is to enjoy my children. I know this time goes by so quickly and more important than learning anything I want to love them and discipline them well this year. Another goal for me is to be flexible and willing to change things that don't work or seem ineffective. I have trouble with getting an idea in my mind and becoming frustrated when things don't work out like I expected them to. I need to work on this. And to give myself grace when things are crazy and school doesn't even happen. That is ok. =) This is what I am learning and I have so so far to go in understanding how to make this work. But i am excited about the journey! =) Thanks for reading!
