Week in Review Week 1&2

Reading About History

We learned that history is made up of true stories about many important people and events.  We learned our lives have a history and made a mini family tree.

science discovery

We learned about light and all of the different colors, textures, shapes, and sizes of things that we see.  We took a flashlight and beamed it around the room.  We described the objects with words like numbers, colors, textures, shapes and sizes.  We also discussed and described things that are outside in nature or in space. 

Later in the week, we took 2 pieces of construction paper side by side.  They were brown and blue.  One represented the land and the other represented water.  I called out different animals-both land and water animals.  Wiggles had to jump from one to the other depending on the animal.

artistic expression

fine motor skills/phonics

Wiggles enjoys his R&S Preschool books.  He is working on Do It Carefully right now.  He still needs to work on his fine motor skills a lot.  He is a young kindergartener (4.5 yrs old) and a boy.

His current phonics program is Reading Eggs.  I got our subscription through Homeschool Buyer’s Co-op and it was well worth it.  He is already through Map 1 and can read small sentences.  He read I am a cat after completing the above page.

I originally purchased A Reason for Handwriting K for him.  His older brother had used it and all of my other kiddos had learned traditional ball and stick manuscript.  However, his worksheets for Reading Eggs are more of a Getty & Dubay Italic style.  He gets handwriting practice with these worksheets.  I also feel it is easier for him.  I wish that I would have done this style with my older son who still has horrible manuscript. 

storytime

Wiggles is really enjoying Reddy Fox and his attention span is doing well with it so far.  Here is his warning to Reddy about being so bold.  He wanted to tell Reddy not to go in the sunlight to catch chickens.  The drawing on the top is Reddy Fox catching a chicken and a hen house and well I am not sure what else.  He enjoyed it though.

math exploration

Wiggles is using Singapore Essential Math Kindergarten A&B this year.  I chose this for several reasons. 

I plan to have Wiggles run through LHFHG over 2 years.  I did not want to start him in the Singapore Earlybird series as his fine motor skills are not ready for some of it.  This is a nice compromise and the B book is comparable to the Earlybird series.  The A book will get him some much needed coloring and writing practice.

I am not requiring him to write in pencil for anything.  If he chooses to do so that is fine.  He is mainly using very fat crayons.  This is really helping him. 

Wiggles also still switches back and forth for writing and coloring between his left and right hand.  I am not giving any sway in this at all.  I just help him with his grip and paper placement for whichever hand he chooses at the time.

Homeschool Group

We went to the corn maze and it was a blast.  We belong to a great homeschool group.  The kids all got to ride on the hayride to the pumpkin patch and pick out a pumpkin.  There was an animal show, pig races, zip line, and much more….

We have a super homeschool Dad at the co-op that takes our school pictures for our co-op yearbook!  Here are Wiggles pictures.  They turned out great.  My oldest dd, Spiritheart, is in the yearbook class this year and will help put the yearbook together.

This was our first Unit in LHFHG.  We are taking it slow and spread it out over 2 weeks.  It is a great start though and we are really enjoying it!