Apple day!

Today we read How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World! I made homemade apple scented play dough (using apple pie spice) with fresh, real cinnamon sticks to be a stem. I put it in a wooden box that looked like an apple crate. I presented it to Lainey as her preschool for the day! Together we all read the book, and then I had Connor write a summary of the book in his journal while Lainey and Noah played with the play dough! Multi age learning is like a bus stop- all the kids are riding on the bus doing one thing (reading the book) but then each kid gets off the bus at different times to do age based learning: Connor writes a summary, Lainey learns that Apple starts with the letter A, and Noah spells apple. Later today we will locate on a globe all the places the girl traveled to in the story to collect her ingredients for the apple pie. Connor ran to the kitchen to make his own edible dough using flour, sugar and water because he really wanted to eat our play dough! Ha ha! Technically the homemade play dough is edible but there is too much salt in it! Lainey has been busy ALL morning playing with her apple play dough and making pies for all her stuffed animals! She has also been playing school all morning! I love the preschool years! I also want to add that Connor got up early in the morning and did all his independent work by himself so that he could be done- great job Connor! Today in Noah’s reading lesson, he read the words so easily that I also turned it into spelling and had him practice spelling the words on paper instead of just reading them. A great Friday! 

Journal- owls

Here is a fun entry in our journals on owls! We followed a how to draw book and also talked about a line of symmetry down the middle that makes the owls the same on both sides. We also did a fun craft where we made owls! I love all things fall!!!

Mid-September 2018

We are getting back into the routine of school after a summer break! Connor loves the checklist I made him so that he knows what to expect and can check off each subject as he works. He loves it! We don’t get to every single thing on it every single day, but he understands what is most important to do (reading, spelling, math) and he likes the visual list and feeling of accomplishment. He has some work he can do independently now, and some we do together. Noah is working hard too! He catches on so fast to what I teach him and is reading way beyond what I have taught him in our lessons, but we still do the lessons for good measure. Lainey loves having her own special table this year. She is writing letters and words with amazing handwriting!! Here are some pictures from this week!

The start of our 2018-2019 school year!

We are very blessed and happy to continuing homeschooling! Here are a few pictures from our first week of school in August 2018. We like to gather at our new breakfast table to do some "morning time" work together. 

1) Here we are singing the hymn "This is My Father’s World" and all three kids drew a picture and wrote the song title. 

Noah doing a sight word hunt and graphing worksheet using his magnifying glass. 

Lainey ordering the alphabet.

Recess! We love our yard and North Carolina!

Connor is proud to work in his new cursive book by Memoria Press.

Noah doing a reading activity- making words plural.

Lainey’s letter A activity!

Lunch time outside!! Thankful for this time together!

Fun Friday!

This morning we made a tornado in a jar! Noah has been interested in weather lately so I found this fun activity- we put water in a jar with a teaspoon of dish soap, vinegar, glitter and food coloring. We put the lid on and shook it in a circle and a little tornado formed! Then we opened up our new journals for this year and wrote an entry about tornadoes and drew a picture. Connor wrote his in all cursive. These journals have become a favorite because we draw and write about things we learn about throughout the year. They always enjoy drawing. It’s a great way to reinforce what we learned, good for extra writing and spelling practice, good to think about sentence formation, good for learning to summarize and put ideas onto paper, and best of all it’s a fun keepsake to have at the end of the year!

Spring is in the air!

We read this delightful spring book about birds and nests and eggs! Connor wrote a journal entry. 

Letter H activities 

Noah loves to copy and write letters! 

Lainey during school!

Map skills and proper and common nouns review 

Connor's spring story he wrote by himself!

Spring themed science books we will read! 

Enjoying the outdoors! 

This spring morning in the dining room!

A fun morning! Sitting with the sunlight in the dining room while Lainey plays in the living room.

Connor copied words from his Rocks and Minerals book into his science journal!

We are practicing reading words with "ed" on the end and learning past tense. Sometimes "ed" says /ed/ sometimes /d/ and sometimes /t/ and sometimes the letter on the end of the word is doubled before you add "ed"!

Connor's bible verse:

Spelling practice with a weather theme, and parts of speech- finding adjectives in sentences.

Noah sped through his work today and keeps asking for more, more!!

Letter I

Rhyming game

Noah's rock paper. It says "rocks, rocks are fun"! He wrote the letters by memory. I would say "R" and he would write it correctly!

Noah's science

Just a little glimpse into the last hour here!