Looking at our school year calendar, I can hardly believe so much time has already flown by – and so little time is actually left in the year!! We are almost halfway through March now and {should we actually follow the rest of our school year plan} are set to finish up mid-May.
But this week we realized we will be changing our schedule a little bit in May to have some fun as a family. We have been saving up little by little over the past two years to take a trip to Disney, and this week we made the final plans for our trip. The girls helped me put together a paper chain to countdown the days until we leave, and we hung it up in the schoolroom to rip off one day at a time.
The kids may be a little excited!! I am now scouring the internet for ideas on ways to make Disney not only fun, but also a big ol’ educational field trip. If you have any suggestions for me, please leave a comment!! We are planning to camp most of the time and very much looking forward to it!
Halfway Through Reading!!
One of the big excitements this week was Kaleb officially being halfway through his All About Reading Level 1 program. A little incentive for him in making it halfway was a special treat – Astronaut Ice Cream {i.e. freeze dried ice cream}. We made a mark to show where he needed to be to get the treat, and don’t you know he was reminding me and ready to get to that point to try it?
The verdict? It was good – but one of the kids in the house has decided it isn’t enough to become an astronaut over. {grins}
More Math Fun
As much as Kaleb didn’t initially enjoy learning about tally marks a bit ago, the past week has seen a huge turnaround in his understanding of how tally marks work in counting {woot!}. The St. Patrick’s Day Math games have been fun to practice with too.
This week we slid the tally sheet into our Crayola Dry Erase Activity Center, which made it so much easier to tote around the room. I’m also thinking it will come in very handy if/when we are traveling since it is very sturdy – and for the many other printables we use!
Kaleb practiced skip counting by 2’s – both even and odd numbers. First he sorted them by even and odd numbers, I mixed them up a bit, and then he put them in order counting by 2’s.
Lego Learning
I completely forgot to add this to the post originally {oops!!}. Kaleb was so excited to share the merry-go-round that he made with our Simple Machine Legos set set and wanted me to videotape him. Here’s a quick video of him explaining the different gears and such that he put together.
The Joys of Homemschooling
One of the things that I definitely love about having all of the kids together is watching our kids work together and help each other out. While I was working with Zachary this week, Laurianna sat in the window seat with Kaleb and helped him read one of his Bob Books. It’s seeing a moment like this between the kids that just makes all those blech moments drift away.
Did you have a ‘moment’ this week that made you pause and count your blessings?
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