Sooo, I have been a little anxious about home schooling for a number of reasons. Mostly because we hadn't had a real full day to see how the girls take to it. Today was that day.
In the morning, after breakfast and bedmaking, we started with some funny songs to get moving. Then we read "Down comes the Rain" by Franklin M. Branley. This is a great book for giving insight on clouds and the water cycle. After we learned abour water vapor and evaporation we filled a cup with water and marked a line on the side to indicate how full it was, then placed it outside. After several hours we checked to see if anything had evaporated and marked a new line when it had.
We had a snack then I had the girls read "My River" by Shari Halpern, outloud to me. This book was cute and had a lot of river vocabulary words. Lilly chose those vocabulary words for her writing assignment and she wrote each one 10 times. Riley practiced whriting her phone # and where we live (in complete sentences of course). At this point it was 10 am and they seemed a little burned out so I went out to mow the lawn and let them have a "brain break". Since it is Memorial day I figured it would be good to talk about what the holiday means so we did. Next, we played on the computer placing the states in their appropriate spots on the US map. I think this is the website for that game: jimspages.com/states.htm I knew at this point we were close to having fulfilled our requirements for the day, yet I was playing online and found more things for them and just asked if they wanted to keep going and they did. We went on the Scholastic website and listened and read along with "Duck for President" by Doreen Cronin and talked about elections. Lastly we drew pictures of our family and did our math worksheets for the day. All that and the girls cooperated every step of the way and seemed to enjoy themselves. Lilly said that was more than she ever learned at public school. Amazing! I know every day won't be this good but for today I am a happy homeschool mom. Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday will be their last public school days. So then we are free to to our home school activities again.
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