Moving right along!

Late post from 10/27/14

T decided to join us this evening! We started, of course, with our warm up song!

Our first lesson was on adding on the abacus. He is working on "take and give" - take from this line, and give to the top one. 

Then we played a game. He had 10 pieces of paper - some with numbers, some with tally marks. He picked a piece of paper, showed the number on the abacus, and I had to guess what was on the paper.

Organizing the dot cards.

Next, he labeled each even card with a yellow tile, and each odd with a green. Then we noted the pattern.

Last, we matched the bead cards to the dot cards.

For handwriting, we worked on Y, 7, and 8. First, we did "Wet, Dry, Try."

T made a 7!

Workbook time!

T decided to do some workbook, too. 

It was an easy and quick evening, and a great start to our second six weeks!

First 6 weeks = Done!

Today we finally caught up on our handwriting and finished out our solar system unit. We didn't get as involved as I had hoped, but we still had a good time! 

Today we introduced capital U, V, W, and X. We didn't really bother with "Wet, Dry, Try" because E picked up the chalk and just wanted to show me he knew what to do! 

So we moved right on to workbook pages.... He struggled a little with the U, but overall zipped right through. I often had to remind him to take his time, and always do his best work. Several times I made him erase attempts where I knew he wasn't trying. Hopefully he will learn to try hard the first time! 

T joined us for a little while....

To finish up our solar system unit, we learned about Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.

Then we did fill in the blank...

Finally, we labelled the planets on a diagram.

Next 6 weeks we will be studying Colorado in preparation for our trip to Denver in January!

Catch up, quick!

These are from 10/22....

We worked on adding and regrouping with Tally sticks.....

4+3....

Is 7 (5 and 2)!

We did a worksheet...

We matched the patterns on the dot cards with our tiles to learn about odd and even. It gives a visual frame of reference. At dinner, my husband have E very large numbers and he was able to tell even or odd! It also introduced counting by 2s.

He separated 1-10 into even and odd piles.

Then we counted by two on the abacus - another visual. When we were done looking at the even numbers, E declared he could also count the odds, "1,3,5,7,9!" I was so impressed! I asked where he learned it, and he told me, "I just know!" 

Then we moved on to unit studies. We read about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. 

Putting rocks on Mars...

The red appt on Jupiter...

Rings on Saturn...

Catch up - handwriting

We clearly haven't done schoolwork in awhile. This is actually supposed to be our first week of our second six week block. #1 rule of homeschool? Flexibility! 

Today we did a bunch of catch-up on handwriting. We did one more "Frog-jump Capital", reviewed them, learned two 2 letters, and 2 new numbers.

Wet-Dry-Try for M, H, K, 5, and 6

Workbook - sometimes we need more practice

Frog-jump Capital Review

9/29/14

Today we began with our usual warm-up, "Yellow is the Sun." Then we moved on to playing "What comes next?" on the abacus. I say a number and E shows me what comes next.

We reviewed in front, behind, beside, above, and below by playing "I Spy" and by moving around with each other.

Next, we worked on different types of patterns with our tiles.

Today's HWT lesson was N, 3, and 4. First we did "Wet, Dry, Try."

Then, we moved on to our workbooks. T started hers today, and loved it! She got so excited when she was able to finish a page. She used the special crayons from HWT. 

9/22/14

Today was another day of evening school. We decided to start with handwriting first, to change things up. 

For math, we began with our song, and we we reviewed how to show numbers with the abacus,  tiles, and tally sticks. 

Then we practiced writing the tally marks. He did a great job!

We also did workbook pages to continue practicing making tally marks. 

We spent some more time making shapes on the geoboards, and then E drew them into his workbook.