Home Schooling Summary for Last Week and This Week

Et Viola! A whole week has run by already. We've been having tons of fun with our cousins who just moved close by as well as doing our usual Joy School & Home School stuff.

Some great new discoveries last week: MathStart stories!
We found these books at our local library.  Daughter A and son M both love reading - these are fun stories that include math concepts. A says that "Double the Ducks" is her favorite one.

We have also read and enjoyed several others:

Probably Pistachio

Coyotes All Around

The Greatest Gymnast of All

I expect we'll be getting others from the library over the next weeks/months as well.

We also enjoyed some fun activities from this book:

The Encyclopedia of Infant and Toddler Activities

Nothing like good CLEAN fun -- soap sculptures

Soap Sculptures

Cut-up and glue back together a calendar - counting and days of the week

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading	X	Joy School	X	Bob Books 1-4	Bob Books 5-6
Writing	X	X	X	X	Letter tracing practice
Math	Math Stories	Math stories	Math Stories	Math stories	Puzzles
Science	Life cycle of a frog	X	Soap sculptures	X	X
History/Geography	X	X	X	X	X

This week we continued to enjoy the Math Stories and incorporated some great new resources that a friend from church passed along to me. Her kids are 3-4 years older than ours.
She had some phonics flash cards which made a nice change of pace from the "train game" which daughter A is all played out on. They also gave us these great dry erase toys that help kids practice writing their letters and also practice the pre-letter type lines and curves. Even 2 year old M likes to try his hand at those.

Writing practice

Fun times with the cousins:

Baking with kids

cinnamon buns to be 

yummy results

This week's Joy School theme was imagination and creativity. Since I hosted this week, I was able to take some pictures. We had lots of fun dressing up, doing dramatizations of fairy tales, pretending to fly on a space ship and having a picnic.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Reading	Word puzzles	Word puzzles	Word puzzles	Word puzzles	Letter flash cards
Writing	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice	Letter tracing practice
Math	Math Stories	Math stories	Math Stories	mazes	X
Science	X	X	Fossils 1	Ground hogs	X
History/Geography	X	X	X	X	X