Fall Kindergarten Thread - Page 6

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Greenmama2 

Bumping again. DD's reading confidence is taking off. She's had a decent sight word vocab and been decoding cvc words for almost two years now but she is a perfectionist and since she can't read with adult fluency has until recently stubbornly believed she can't read. Today we headed off to the library and she pulled an early reader off the shelf and read it aloud. I mean LOUD lol, loud enough for the librarian and some other patrons to hear. For a perfectionist who doesn't even like to read in front of us (she'll sit with a book and read it to herself but stop if she thinks we know what she is doing) this is huge Tonight after mr. 17 months went to sleep we pulled out the cuisenaire rods and played "differences" from moominmama's pre-Miquon book. She really enjoyed it so of course now I'm wracked with guilt that I can't meet her educational needs enough when he is awake. Sigh. Her favourite thing of late is the electronics kit we picked up from a local homeschool market day for four dollars she would use that thing all day if she could, but again. Toddler unfriendly!

Do you have a link to that rod book?  I can not seem to find it.

[Greenmama2]

http://nurturedbylove.blogspot.com/2008/12/cuisenaire-discovery-book.html

[Greenmama2]

So after all my guilt last night about not doing enough with DD we seemed to find a good rhythm today. After breakfast we stayed at the table for some Singapore maths and then she wrote in her "field journal" (something she took from the latest Tinkerbell movie lol) and asked to do an experiment from Starting Point Science. We managed violin between breakfast & lunch too as well as me making moussaka and playing "vet" to lots ot stuffed animals. DS is always at his most easy going in the morning I need to remember that and stop trying to get housework done then and "do stuff" instead. He went to sleep directly after dinner so we pulled the electricity kit out then and did two experiments

[AngelBee]

Originally Posted by Greenmama2 

So after all my guilt last night about not doing enough with DD we seemed to find a good rhythm today. After breakfast we stayed at the table for some Singapore maths and then she wrote in her "field journal" (something she took from the latest Tinkerbell movie lol) and asked to do an experiment from Starting Point Science. We managed violin between breakfast & lunch too as well as me making moussaka and playing "vet" to lots ot stuffed animals. DS is always at his most easy going in the morning I need to remember that and stop trying to get housework done then and "do stuff" instead. He went to sleep directly after dinner so we pulled the electricity kit out then and did two experiments

Thanks for the rod link. :)

My dd4 wants to set up a field guide now too! lol
 

[kgianforti]

We started some school back up this week after a nice lazy Thanksgiving week!!

My big girl read enough books for both her Pizza Hut BOOK IT! goal and her Applebees Bookworm Club goal!! (We don't over lap programs when she reads a book - she gets to choose which program the book applies to). So we had some Pizza Hut yesterday for lunch!

Anyone making any curriculun changes in January? We are going to drop all the "filler" extras we do and start an American History study with Sonlight materials and hands on projects that I'm gathering together.

[frugalmama]

Originally Posted by kgianforti 

We started some school back up this week after a nice lazy Thanksgiving week!!

My big girl read enough books for both her Pizza Hut BOOK IT! goal and her Applebees Bookworm Club goal!! (We don't over lap programs when she reads a book - she gets to choose which program the book applies to). So we had some Pizza Hut yesterday for lunch!

Anyone making any curriculun changes in January? We are going to drop all the "filler" extras we do and start an American History study with Sonlight materials and hands on projects that I'm gathering together.

What's the applebee's program? I've never heard of it before. My little one is signed up for Book-it, but our local pizza hut sucks so we haven't been doing it.

[kgianforti]

Bummer your Pizza Hut is terrible. Ours remembered us from last month! LOL!

This is the Applebees Club:

http://tlcneighborhood.com/page.php?id=1

I just emailed the gal and told her that I home schooled and she sent me the cards. Read 10 books and get a free kid's meal.

[eastkygal]

So, I've only posted once, but I had to come back to say we are having a great year now that we are in the swing of things.  I love our curriculum.  It reallys eases in to academics slowly building on skills.  We are using Rod and Staff.  It fits into my teaching philosophy very well, and DD1 enjoys her work.  I love their Little Jewel Books.  They are awesome for getting in Social Studies and Science with character issues all tied in.  They are really well written and wonderfully illustrated. 

Anyway, I'm wondering about letters.  I bought DD Leap Frog Letter Factory and she seems to be well ahead of me on recognizing her letters and knowing their sounds.  We started letter K this week.  I wasn't going to start academics until age 6 or 7, but DD1 asked to learn her letters and to read, so I decided to go ahead and start kindy.  Should I speed up our work with letters.  Like instead of doing one letter a week do two?  What do you think?  Or should we still move at the pace we are with the letters?