Well, I can now say that I have two weeks of homeschooling under my belt!! The girls are really doing good, but I had my doubts that first week. We lacked just a bit of focus, but that is to be expected. We have never really had a "set" learning time so we are still in the adjustment phase. I don't know what day it was, but one day Karsyn said to me, "when are you going to quit talking because I am ready for you to be done!" Kinley has already thrown the phrase out, "I should have went to real school!" Those may discourage some, but I can promise they have had more fun times than bad! It is just hard for them to understand we have to stay put and LISTEN for a little while!
It is really nice to not have the morning rush! We can get up and enjoy our time together before Shane heads off to work, and the girls can take their time getting ready in the morning. They have even been able to sneak in a short cartoon before we start our school time.
So, what did we do the last few weeks!?? Everyday we do our math, handwriting, and phonics. We are also doing a curriculum called Five in a Row, and we literally read the same book five days in a row and pull out different subjects each day. This is where the real fun comes in!! Last week we read Madeline. We had a friend that was in the hospital so we visited him, and that went right along with the book plus we were able to minister to someone. We painted the Eiffel Tower, talked about rivers, and learned about compassion. It was a great week! This week our book was The Story of Ping, and we had a lot of fun with this one! I highly recommend this book if you have small children. Ping is a duck so one day we went and watched the duck march at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock. The girls thought that was really neat! We have talked about China and the Yangtze River, cooked a Chinese meal, made Chinese lanterns, experimented with mixing different colored pencils for art, and topped it off with a picnic to the park where we fed the ducks and some cute little baby beavers! Oh, and I can't forget our little float and sink science experiment we did today when we talked about Buoyancy! The kids loved it.
It is so amazing to me how much learning and exploring we can do! Sometimes their questions open up a whole new topic, and I LOVE IT!! We are cherishing every moment we have together! There of course is always time for play! We have more fun things planned so stay tuned ;-)
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