Monday, January 26, 2009
Grant's front, bottom, left tooth is loose and he wiggles and wiggles and wiggles and pulls and pulls all day until the finally gets Dad to yank it out. Of course he recieves money and praises from everyone.
The next day he finds the other bottom front tooth loose. I have no idea if he is just messing with them in order to get money from everyone, so I tell him to leave it alone. I did catch him trying to open the syrup bottle with his bottom tooth. 8 days later on Wednesday, Febuary 3rd that tooth is out.
This makes it hard to even say tooth or any "th" word for that matter.
I will post pics later, when I finally get a chance to catch him.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
A New Start For A New Year
We have started a new curriculum for 2009. I decided to go with Sonlight since Grant is needing to get into reading a little more. Sonlight is more structured for the both of us. No more lesson planning and slacking. Best of all the curriculum is based around all things biblical.
We are off to a slow start for 1st Grade but with Sonlight I am able to combine 1st and 2nd grade material to get him on track. I am excited and Grant is in for a treat! I love the idea of homeschooling. We can keep God in the curriculum and proceed at a comfortable pace for each child.
For the time being we have put Gabriela in 1/2 day Pre-K at a local private facility. Having her here for our 1st year has been a little challenging. She is really outgoing and social. She refused to let me work with Grant and her assignments were "for babies" according to her. She wanted to go big girl stuff like "dress up, make up, dance and sing", all while Grant was trying to read. Who new girls enjoyed that stuff. I thought she would be the one to enjoy creating lap books, instead Grant was creating lap books with her curriculum.
The joy of this is that Gabriela actually participates during Pre-K. She refused to write an A for me but she "breezed through it" according to her teacher. Maybe its the competition in class or maybe she thinks I should do it for her. Either way, we are able to accomplish our goals....now.
I purchased all the Five in a Row books for her and they will not go to waste! Since she is only gone half a day we gather together when she gets home to read, color and make our lap books. The extra bonus is that Grant will read the books to us!
We all win! Hopefully by summer time she will be ready to pay attention and work with us for Kindergarten.
We are off to a slow start for 1st Grade but with Sonlight I am able to combine 1st and 2nd grade material to get him on track. I am excited and Grant is in for a treat! I love the idea of homeschooling. We can keep God in the curriculum and proceed at a comfortable pace for each child.
For the time being we have put Gabriela in 1/2 day Pre-K at a local private facility. Having her here for our 1st year has been a little challenging. She is really outgoing and social. She refused to let me work with Grant and her assignments were "for babies" according to her. She wanted to go big girl stuff like "dress up, make up, dance and sing", all while Grant was trying to read. Who new girls enjoyed that stuff. I thought she would be the one to enjoy creating lap books, instead Grant was creating lap books with her curriculum.
The joy of this is that Gabriela actually participates during Pre-K. She refused to write an A for me but she "breezed through it" according to her teacher. Maybe its the competition in class or maybe she thinks I should do it for her. Either way, we are able to accomplish our goals....now.
I purchased all the Five in a Row books for her and they will not go to waste! Since she is only gone half a day we gather together when she gets home to read, color and make our lap books. The extra bonus is that Grant will read the books to us!
We all win! Hopefully by summer time she will be ready to pay attention and work with us for Kindergarten.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
What Is Attractive?
From my six year old:
Attractive is when a man finds a girl that he likes and he is too shy to tell her.
His dad has no idea how to handle this.
Any suggestions?
Attractive is when a man finds a girl that he likes and he is too shy to tell her.
His dad has no idea how to handle this.
Any suggestions?
Since I was a little embarrassed that my Pre-K child was unable to write her name like the other Pre-K children, I needed to find a worksheet which I could create myself. So I turned to Google and typed in; "build your own handwriting worksheet". There were plenty of sites that required registration and charged a fee; therefore I went back to Google and typed in; "free build your own handwriting worksheet".
Again there were about 106,000 sites that appeared but I found this one from Writing Wizard. It was perfect for what I wanted to do. Here is a Sample of a child's name. Now we can start to practice.
I also found some great letter worksheets at About.com. I added these sites to my favorites and I am on my way to homeschooling my Preschooler with ease. These are things that are simple to find and can be copied over and over again for practice.
Hey, no one told me that this kind of help was out there. I have "foolishly" paid good money for Pre-K workbooks. Since I have completed college (for now) I now have the time to search and it did not even take that long for me to find.
I am upset because as a first year homeschool mom I went and bought all of these workboods and here are all these pages for FREE!
Do you frequent any other sites in which you can customize your own Preschool workbooks...free? I know there are hundreds of thousands out there, have you found any that are great for homeschooling?
Again there were about 106,000 sites that appeared but I found this one from Writing Wizard. It was perfect for what I wanted to do. Here is a Sample of a child's name. Now we can start to practice.
I also found some great letter worksheets at About.com. I added these sites to my favorites and I am on my way to homeschooling my Preschooler with ease. These are things that are simple to find and can be copied over and over again for practice.
Hey, no one told me that this kind of help was out there. I have "foolishly" paid good money for Pre-K workbooks. Since I have completed college (for now) I now have the time to search and it did not even take that long for me to find.
I am upset because as a first year homeschool mom I went and bought all of these workboods and here are all these pages for FREE!
Do you frequent any other sites in which you can customize your own Preschool workbooks...free? I know there are hundreds of thousands out there, have you found any that are great for homeschooling?
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