So much has happened, where do I begin?
Why did the mummy go to the doctor? Because he was coffin 😜
Kristen has been reading book 3 of The Magic Tree House series. They also have companion books that help you dive a little deeper in the topic, so with Mummies in the Morning we did a little unit study on mummies.
Kristen enjoyed trying to figure out the hieroglyphics and creating some of her own.
She did a book summary written on a mummy. At first she didn't think she would be able to fill up all of her blank spaces, but at the end she didn't have enough and continued on the back. I told her that was a good problem to have.
She also did a gummy bear experiment for science. Science and experimenting are her favorite things to do. She had some pretty good predictions.
Lauren has really taken off this year. Some of the things I was very concerned about with her, seem to be falling in place. She has always done things in her own time. Not sure why I would expect any different.
One of our favorite beginning reader books is Katy Duck.
We love Katy Duck and all of her books and Lauren has been able to read more words in her book now than ever. We have been mainly focusing on site words, but she has also been sounding out words on her worksheets and getting them! This makes me so excited!!!
We have been playing a lot of fun games to help her learn her site words. It does help, but she also benefits from writing them too. She really enjoyed playing the site word island game and was helping Dallas find the site words I was calling out.
I've also been working with her on recognizing nouns. She knows the definition, but hasn't quite mastered putting nouns into categories, so any activity I find that seems fun we try. Since she loves balloons I thought I would try a fun game using them.
She really thought about it, but when given too many options she usually just picks something. They did enjoy playing with all 15 balloons after school though. Dallas liked popping them for me.
While her progress in reading has really made me excited, her progress in math has made me ecstatic. She now works on math worksheets pretty much all on her own. She can add numbers like 48 + 7. She and Kristen played a game called Sailor Math and she was adding and giving Kristen a run for her money. Of course, I may have been giving Kristen the harder ones, but she still did great and had fun.
She's also starting to write words all on her own by sounding them out.
I am just amazed at how far she has come from the beginning of the year. This time last year I was tearfully contemplating enrolling her in school. I really didn't know what else to do. But hard work has paid off.
Dallas is still enjoying his pre-school. Even when he was sick, he wanted to do school.
He has been learning how to cut all on his own. This is quite an accomplishment!
We also read one of my favorite Dr. Seuss books, Green Eggs and Ham. He had to match the rhyming words/eggs.
We are working on letter sounds and matching upper case letters with lower case letters. Thank goodness for the web, because there are a ton of ideas out there. I thought this was a cute game. The lower case letter was written on the back of the egg and he had to flip them over with a spatula and put them on the correct plates.
Everyone had to try this game. Kristen also read him the Green Eggs and Ham book.
Since he doesn't like eggs, we made green eggs and ham out of white melting chocolate and green m & m's. His favorite color and favorite candy.
We had a fun February and are looking forward to all the fun times ahead in March.
