Things I need to remember

Swiped from The Parenting Passageway.

I wonder if she's done this for other ages.

This is also a good reminder of what Ike is capable of as he's functionally a 3-4 year old. (I don't have twins...I have triplets, one's just 2 years older than the other two.)

Realistic Expectations for the Four-Year-Old

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Homeschooling Pictures!

Just posting some pictures of this week's work.

Page One of his First Main Lesson Book




We did Form Drawing this week.

Curve Forms First



Then Straights


Then Waves


As you can see, I didn't realize we were drawing on the onion skins! Now that I know they are there, we will avoid them.

Here's a Picture of the Blackboard on Thursday Morning. The picture for Ike to copy on the left, and the verse on the right. Yea, I know, I'm not the greatest artist. I'm learning. Cut me some slack.


Here's Ike's rendition of the drawing. The house took 3 tries, but with the fixes, it looks pretty good. I can't help but wonder if the book I'm using is too small. (Its something like 11 x 14) Too small at least for pictures...he seems to be doing quite well with the writing.



And two pages of the verse



Next week I'll have him draw the stars between the words. On the first picture you can see where he got lost looking at the board and the entire verse. It got better when I decided to erase each word as he finished copying it into his book.

This week's Menu

Saturday (Guests!) Pasta with Red Sauce, Salad, bread and dessert
Sunday: Chili
Monday: Chicken Burrito Bowls
Tuesday Leftovers
Wednesday: Roast Beef and Trimmings
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday Pizza and Salad

Homeschooling this week

Math Block! We'll be learning the properties of numbers in this block and Roman Numerals

Weekly:
Verse: Rosy Apple, A Child's Seasonal Treasury Pg 36
Spanish: Autumn Leaves are Falling down (week 2) Bilingual, Pg 106
Yoga: Freedom, Angel Bear Yoga, Page 77
Music (Ike's requested a music change) Mary had a little lamb
Handwork: Applebutter (if I can get apples at the Farmers Market),

(NB Music is going slow...I think we will be working on Mary had a little lamb for the foreseeable future. Ike is still trying to figure out that the left hand goes on top and how to blow hard enough, but not too hard to get a good sound. Once he tackles that, we'll move onto fingering. Big frustration here is that Elli and Gwen want to play too, only they just want to blow their flutes, not actually learn how to play their own (which is fine). The problem comes in the fact that they are bothering Ike with their playing. And he keeps getting distracted and frustrated.)

Monday:

• Holiday! Daddy's Home! Memorial Service in Late Afternoon
• Baking Day: GF Bread for me, GF Brownies for Dessert on Tuesday

Tuesday: 

• First Day of School at Morning Glory, we'll attend and participate in the Rose Ceremony (graduation to First Grade)
• Painting Day: Yellow Sun in Blue Sky
• Form Drawing: More Curves

Wednesday:

• Ike: Number I, Riddle (AJTWM Pg 13) Drawing the Sun in Main Lesson Book with Phrase "Our Sun is I"
• E&G Three Billy Goats Gruff
• Modeling Day: Suns

Thursday:

• Ike: Number II Riddle (AJTWM  Pg 14) Draw Sun and Moon in MLB with "Our Sun and Moon are II"
• E&G Noisy Gnomes
• Form Drawing: More Curves
• Copywork: Weekly Verse

Friday:

• Ike: Forest Friday at Morning Glory
• E&G: KidsPark