I don't have any great photos to share this week or any links to pages - I know, I know I'm a slacker but I can tell you what we did.
1) The most important thing of the week is that Josh learned to read. After spending the first half of the year focused on letter sounds, vowels sounds and blending all kinds of sounds, we pulled out the first book in our curriculum and Josh read the whole first story. We then talked about plural words and how you add an "s" to show more than one (Hat vs. Hats). His smile was HUGE. Now, Nate keeps bringing him books and asking him to read to him. Josh just shakes his head and and says, "Not yet Nate, I can't read ALL those words" HA!
2) On Monday, we did school at the grocery store. Timing didn't allow me to get to the store for full shopping until Monday. I decided to take the boys and the princess after the munchkin got on the bus. We started out in the store doing all kinds of school stuff - Counting Fish, using the fish tanks to make math problems, finding letters/numbers on things (Such as, find a V and an 8 on a juice bottle or look for juice thiat says it is 100% ! Well, that lasted through about 5 aisles and then I said, we are done, I need to finish shopping and get out of here :-)
3) We did School in the morning on Wednesday. Darryl was home and I knew the boys wanted him to play in the afternoon so we got all of our work done before lunch. Then, after lunch, the best thing ever happened. For the first time in almost 14 months, Darryl was able to get on the floor with the boys and build train circles (Play with their wooden track). Yes, there were THREE happy boys (one big one and two little ones) as they worked together to build the perfect track.
So yes, our homeschool start up after Christmas was a full success. Now we will cruise through to the end of the year that will end sometime early May!
