October 31, 2010

No, we didn't do school today - church this morning, busy this afternoon, and of course the excitement factor about candy day. I'm no big fan of Halloween, that's no secret, but I have a measure of tolerance for the cute/fun aspect of it for the little kids. That's about it. The kids, however, have nothing but enthusiasm for a day where they get to play dressup, wear gaudy makeup in public, and get rewarded with candy! We didn't go far, though, just to about a dozen neighbors' houses.

October 28, 2010

C has started doing some copywork out of "A Treasury of Bible Verses - Penmanship for Little Ones" and is enjoying it although it takes a fair amount of concentration as she's been in the habit of writing only in capital letters and now I'm making her start using lower-case. But she loves anything to do with Bible words and verses, so that helps. The first part of each exercise is tracing the words, and then it follows up with lines to copy the text onto:

We have also had a lot of fun around here lately making art projects with bingo daubers. I wish I could find some that were filled with washable ink, though... we found ours at the dollar store and they make an awful mess!!

A quite enjoyed working with some matching and tracing wipe-off pages... however she enjoyed them so much that she did them ALL in one sitting. Hmm. Mayhap she is taking after C more than I thought... she loooooved doing worksheets and stuff when she was 2-3.

Budding artist

I bought C a few "how to draw" books a while back and at the time they were rather too advanced for her. But today she broke one of them out and came up with this:

How to Draw Fairies and Mermaids (Usborne Activities)

How to Draw Princesses and Ballerinas (Usborne Activities)

October 22, 2010

Horizons Math K ... we're about halfway through book one and she's doing addition up to ten, counting by tens now... she's a little ahead of the book though because she alternates between this and a grade one math book. ;)

Started working on copywork today - Bible verses, spelling and penmanship all rolled into one!

One of today's pages from a Reading Comprehension book: Reading Comprehension: Grade 1 (Learn on the Go Reading Comprehension)

A masterpiece by Miss A.

Hard at work. And I quote, "I'm doing some school work, so please leave me alone right now."

October 19, 2010

One of Little Miss Smartypants' math pages today.

Have I mentioned she likes math?

A is working on shapes - the kid LOVES to trace!

October 15, 2010

A's masterpiece... "Me and a sea turtle and sister all holding hands"

C playing on Leap World - we just discovered it when we plugged in her Tag Reader to download some new rewards. Pretty cool! :)

Craft Day!

C's Pumpkin (we added eyelashes later to make it more "girly") - she drew the face on paper and I copied it onto her pumpkin, then she did the painting.

A's Pumpkin - this one was my drawing but she did the painting! I just cleaned it up a little after, but not very much - she was surprisingly precise with that little brush :)

We love Starfall

C is working through the upper levels on www.starfall.com. An excellent website that we have made much use of!