Monday, April 26, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Spring 2010
We've been busy since January!
Big sis is doing well in college and Big Bro' left in February for the Navy...
Sam finished MFW 1 and has started MFW Adventures. We started using workboxes in our house and it has been a very nice addition for us.... Sam even decorated his sheet for the his American History studies.
Each day I follow the MFW grid and fill the boxes.
Box 1. Bible. Tomorrow we start our Names of Jesus poster...
Box 2. Spelling....
Box 3. Primary Language Lessons...
Box 4. History...
Box 5. Science...
Box 6. Math...
Box 7. Reading...
Big sis is doing well in college and Big Bro' left in February for the Navy...
Sam finished MFW 1 and has started MFW Adventures. We started using workboxes in our house and it has been a very nice addition for us.... Sam even decorated his sheet for the his American History studies.
Each day I follow the MFW grid and fill the boxes.
Box 1. Bible. Tomorrow we start our Names of Jesus poster...
Box 2. Spelling....
Box 3. Primary Language Lessons...
Box 4. History...
Box 5. Science...Box 6. Math... Box 8. Art....
Box 9. Read Aloud...
I have Sam work on Book Basket while I'm working with Charlotte and we haven't started doing Foreign Language yet.
The books that aren't being used the next day are kept in a crate so I never have to search for a book....
Sam's loaded workboxes......
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Sam's Year 3
History/Geography/Language Arts/Reading/Literature/Science/Bible/Art/Music appreciation/handwriting/handicrafts
My Father's World Adventures
Addition Language Arts resources
Primary Language Lessons
First Language Lessons
Writing with Ease
All About Spelling
Math - MUS Gamma
Poetry/Memorization/Speech-IEW's Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization
My Father's World Adventures
Addition Language Arts resources
First Language Lessons
Writing with Ease
All About Spelling
Math - MUS Gamma
Friday, January 1, 2010
Last Quarter update for 2009
This quarter update is a little late because it appears I quit blogging in September.....
Drum roll please.....
Speech therapy is behind us! It was a long hard road but Sam is done and we couldn't be prouder of him.
As far a school there isn't much to talk about. We have a nice rhythm to our day. Big Sis' leaves for collegeat 9am and we head upstairs to do school work. Sam just sits at the table and gets to work.
Currently for Sam....
Math- Lesson 13 of MUS Beta. Math remains easy for Sam.
MFW 1--currently on lesson 111. This has been such a huge hit! Sam enjoys reading the Bible Reader. He does very well with all the lessons. He calls the writing portion the "hardest part of school" but he is doing well. A bonus for me is that it is completely open and go so very little planning for me.
Poetry/Memorization- IEW's Linguistic Development Through Poetry is another huge hit. Sam has memorized ten poems.
We did drop All About Spelling again but only because we were covering spelling with the phonics instruction in MFW 1. We will pick it back up when we complete the phonics with MFW 1 in the next few weeks.
The only minor change is that we are no longer reading a different selection on each day instead we pick a title and read it until it is complete.
We did organize our material using a modified workbox. I'm using these Sterilite drawers to organize our materials. Using the workbox system has completely eliminated all the "how much more" comments from Sam.
Currently for Charlotte...
In addition to all the activities that we do during the preschool years, we spend each day working with MFW Preschool materials and reading a selection from AO Year 0. She also participates in the books I'm reading aloud with Sam and listens in on his phonics lessons.
She has picked up quite a bit of phonics doing our very informal preschool. She knows many of the phonograms and can read .....a little. She is not going to need to work quite as hard as Sam with learning to read.
Plan for Winter Quarter...
---- Get ready to start MFW Adventures!
-----Do a quick review of All About Spelling book 1 and then start book 2.
-----Resist the urge to start MFW K with Charlotte before her 5th birthday. It does help that I lent it too a friend and do not anticipate having it returned until next fall!
Drum roll please.....
Speech therapy is behind us! It was a long hard road but Sam is done and we couldn't be prouder of him.
As far a school there isn't much to talk about. We have a nice rhythm to our day. Big Sis' leaves for collegeat 9am and we head upstairs to do school work. Sam just sits at the table and gets to work.
Currently for Sam....
Math- Lesson 13 of MUS Beta. Math remains easy for Sam.
MFW 1--currently on lesson 111. This has been such a huge hit! Sam enjoys reading the Bible Reader. He does very well with all the lessons. He calls the writing portion the "hardest part of school" but he is doing well. A bonus for me is that it is completely open and go so very little planning for me.
Poetry/Memorization- IEW's Linguistic Development Through Poetry is another huge hit. Sam has memorized ten poems.
We did drop All About Spelling again but only because we were covering spelling with the phonics instruction in MFW 1. We will pick it back up when we complete the phonics with MFW 1 in the next few weeks.
The only minor change is that we are no longer reading a different selection on each day instead we pick a title and read it until it is complete.
We did organize our material using a modified workbox. I'm using these Sterilite drawers to organize our materials. Using the workbox system has completely eliminated all the "how much more" comments from Sam.
Currently for Charlotte...
In addition to all the activities that we do during the preschool years, we spend each day working with MFW Preschool materials and reading a selection from AO Year 0. She also participates in the books I'm reading aloud with Sam and listens in on his phonics lessons.
She has picked up quite a bit of phonics doing our very informal preschool. She knows many of the phonograms and can read .....a little. She is not going to need to work quite as hard as Sam with learning to read.
Plan for Winter Quarter...
---- Get ready to start MFW Adventures!
-----Do a quick review of All About Spelling book 1 and then start book 2.
-----Resist the urge to start MFW K with Charlotte before her 5th birthday. It does help that I lent it too a friend and do not anticipate having it returned until next fall!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sam the Recruiter
Every once in a while you get a glance of the person that your child is becoming. I got such a glance last week during a Cub Scout Rally. I really didn't have a clue what I signed us up for but we headed to the school. Sam was the only Scout that showed up to help recruit 30 boys and entertain their siblings. He was amazing. Sam is strong in interpersonal skills there is little doubt about that- he can make a friend in any setting with ease. I just didn't realize how intuitive he was to other's needs. He automatically changed his emphasis on scouting to meet the desires of the different age and abilities of the boys that he spoke with. While talking to older boys he spoke of camping during the winter, shooting off rockets, and bb guns. When talking with the younger boys he emphasized the family aspect of scouting and how much fun it was do things with your dad. There were several special needs boys and he intuitively knew that they wanted to know that they were going to get to participate just like everybody else. Is is going to be such a joy to watch this young person grow to a man!
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Summer 2009
Wow! Where has the summer gone?
Big Sis graduated and starts college .....gulp.....tomorrow. Big Brother has moved out and is ready to join the Navy. We painted and re-arranged rooms so the Big Sis has her own study/sitting room adjacent to her bedroom. This means that we once again have a dedicated schoolroom/playroom. Since we didn't have enough going on this summer we also decided to rip up the old floor and lay down the new. I guess it is not a surprise that we only got about 6 weeks of school done this season!.
Our basic schedule hasn't changed much. Charlotte went through a phrase this summer where she did not want to participate in the morning activities so instead we did lots of informal activities throughout the day.
Starting around 9am with Sam we did MFW 1 , MUS, IEW Poetry, Nature Reader, Speech work, Song School Latin and our alternated readings
M- Geography ( Seabird)
T- History(D'Auliare Selection)
Th- Burgess( Birds)
Sam is reading his Bible reader. He has a selection of books that he can read all by himself and he spends about 30min each day reading all by himself. I have been so impressed with MFW 1 reading instructions. It is everything that I have been trying to put together on my own with our CM reading instructions. It is so awesome to just open the book and have the lesson planned out for us.....not too long....not too short...not too many manipulative......just perfect.
Sam has memorized 4 poems from IEW Poetry. The poems are interesting enough that he is motivated to learn them. He enjoys impressing friends and family with his poems and it is also good speech practice.
We've been doing SSL just for fun. If I find a Song School Spanish or its equivalent we are going to try it. We would have more use for Spanish but it never made it into our schedule this past year.
It's been an interesting summer but we are looking for a cooler, less hectic Autumn!
Big Sis graduated and starts college .....gulp.....tomorrow. Big Brother has moved out and is ready to join the Navy. We painted and re-arranged rooms so the Big Sis has her own study/sitting room adjacent to her bedroom. This means that we once again have a dedicated schoolroom/playroom. Since we didn't have enough going on this summer we also decided to rip up the old floor and lay down the new. I guess it is not a surprise that we only got about 6 weeks of school done this season!.
Our basic schedule hasn't changed much. Charlotte went through a phrase this summer where she did not want to participate in the morning activities so instead we did lots of informal activities throughout the day.
Starting around 9am with Sam we did MFW 1 , MUS, IEW Poetry, Nature Reader, Speech work, Song School Latin and our alternated readings
M- Geography ( Seabird)
T- History(D'Auliare Selection)
Th- Burgess( Birds)
Sam is reading his Bible reader. He has a selection of books that he can read all by himself and he spends about 30min each day reading all by himself. I have been so impressed with MFW 1 reading instructions. It is everything that I have been trying to put together on my own with our CM reading instructions. It is so awesome to just open the book and have the lesson planned out for us.....not too long....not too short...not too many manipulative......just perfect.
Sam has memorized 4 poems from IEW Poetry. The poems are interesting enough that he is motivated to learn them. He enjoys impressing friends and family with his poems and it is also good speech practice.
We've been doing SSL just for fun. If I find a Song School Spanish or its equivalent we are going to try it. We would have more use for Spanish but it never made it into our schedule this past year.
It's been an interesting summer but we are looking for a cooler, less hectic Autumn!
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