to do everything i want to do! eek! really- i feel like i'm rushing everything i do! and compared to most, we're not even that busy...it must be the three kid thing! what a blessing...a sometimes going crazy blessing...but a major blessing nonetheless...
so, school is going well. for both philip and ella. i think i forgot to mention that buddy started preschool last week and is thoroughly enjoying it. in fact, he talks more about school then ella ever did! lol! he is making friends, having fun with all the different activities, and loving going to his class. yay! he said he only cried the first day at recess. he didn't cry going to school that first day or any day after! what a little man!
tomorrow is friday- that means no school for buddy and rich's birthday plus rich has the day off. i am not sure what we are going to do tomorrow to celebrate. he hasn't said much. i do know that we forgot to make cards! yikes! must do that first thing tomorrow, me and the kids!
tomorrow we also finish our "unit" on Africa. i am reviewing with ella via a little booklet for the ancient egypt part of our unit. she is doing great with her reading comprehension. also, a little bit inventive is she with her spelling...but i suppose that is par for the course. lol. she is only in first grade! and finshing her third week at that! i am trying to be upfront with her about her spelling. she gets a little frustrated having to rewrite some words but we just take it a little at a time. her reading is really really good...i just hope she begins to visualize in her head how she would READ the word and then spell it that way. i have a couple videos on African tales/stories we will try to watch plus several books to read. it should be a "living book" day..or rather...a review on what we know through reading and conversing and some short video clips. next week we do the Land Bridge and then the maya..with the aztecs and incas following shortly the following few weeks. i am excited about the next unit! yay!
science was fun this week. we took a field trip to the pet store to see what animals had scales, feather, and fur. she had to write some names down and talk to me about what those coverings do for the animal. our experiment today was really fun- hands on stuff.
three books we read about or relating to Africa and people from Africa were Somewhere in Africa, Amazing Grace, and Bringing Rain to Kapiti Plain. For each, we did at least one worksheet. i found lesson plans online and also, the first two we actually discussed main characters and traits, settings, events, problems, and resolving of conflict. It was a stretch for her, being the first times she ever did something like that but i suspect as we do one every week as i plan, she will get the hang of it. tomorrow's books include a sequel to Amazing Grace called Boundless Grace, Papa Do You Love Me, and The First Music. these are just for fun books- not going to actually make her work after we read them. we need an easy day tomorrow...it's been a full week!
so, school is going well. for both philip and ella. i think i forgot to mention that buddy started preschool last week and is thoroughly enjoying it. in fact, he talks more about school then ella ever did! lol! he is making friends, having fun with all the different activities, and loving going to his class. yay! he said he only cried the first day at recess. he didn't cry going to school that first day or any day after! what a little man!
tomorrow is friday- that means no school for buddy and rich's birthday plus rich has the day off. i am not sure what we are going to do tomorrow to celebrate. he hasn't said much. i do know that we forgot to make cards! yikes! must do that first thing tomorrow, me and the kids!
tomorrow we also finish our "unit" on Africa. i am reviewing with ella via a little booklet for the ancient egypt part of our unit. she is doing great with her reading comprehension. also, a little bit inventive is she with her spelling...but i suppose that is par for the course. lol. she is only in first grade! and finshing her third week at that! i am trying to be upfront with her about her spelling. she gets a little frustrated having to rewrite some words but we just take it a little at a time. her reading is really really good...i just hope she begins to visualize in her head how she would READ the word and then spell it that way. i have a couple videos on African tales/stories we will try to watch plus several books to read. it should be a "living book" day..or rather...a review on what we know through reading and conversing and some short video clips. next week we do the Land Bridge and then the maya..with the aztecs and incas following shortly the following few weeks. i am excited about the next unit! yay!
science was fun this week. we took a field trip to the pet store to see what animals had scales, feather, and fur. she had to write some names down and talk to me about what those coverings do for the animal. our experiment today was really fun- hands on stuff.
three books we read about or relating to Africa and people from Africa were Somewhere in Africa, Amazing Grace, and Bringing Rain to Kapiti Plain. For each, we did at least one worksheet. i found lesson plans online and also, the first two we actually discussed main characters and traits, settings, events, problems, and resolving of conflict. It was a stretch for her, being the first times she ever did something like that but i suspect as we do one every week as i plan, she will get the hang of it. tomorrow's books include a sequel to Amazing Grace called Boundless Grace, Papa Do You Love Me, and The First Music. these are just for fun books- not going to actually make her work after we read them. we need an easy day tomorrow...it's been a full week!
i introduced her the other week only briefly to Peter and the Wolf, and we went into it a bit more today. Since health has been focusing on feeling this week and last week, it was a good tie in to musical instruments and the emotion and images they convey. she began her little notebook today, with each page a different instrument as noted in Peter and the Wolf and her own little illustration of the instrument. she really enjoyed it!
here's some tidbits of other russell things- rich took the kids to the fair sunday and i did not go..i napped....i am wiped out on the weekends. totally....baby is just adorable as ever. had a few better nights of sleep....the kids have been playing with their neighbors almost every day. they love our right next door neighbors plus the one neigbor across the street from us....it is an awful awful day when they can't play!
these pics above are from last friday's little nature walk adventure with grandpa! they made simple nature journals which someday i will show here on the blog and actually sketched their own drawings of what they found! i made one too..i couldn't resist! here are only a small sampling of my pics...hoping to get more up later!
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What a complete rich and exciting blog...it is exciting to think about the teaching and learning going on...who was that old guy in the first picture?
LTTS
That's a pretty picture of u and the little man. Hang in there, it's Friday. (Smiles) and happy birthday to your man! There's still time to make a card for him... ;-)
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