Weekly Wrap Up

Several homeschool blogs I read do a Friday "Weekly Wrap Up" summarizing their homeschool week. I may try to post on Fridays as a regular thing, more as a recording of our school year. I hope you enjoy it.

We kicked off our school year this week and also Amelia's potty training. Both endeavors are going very well. Caley did two math lessons per school day (Monday and Friday) in the K12 Kindergarten curriculum book. The first 10 lessons had been torn out because we got the book used, so I made makeshift testing sheets to record what she learned for the day. I did the teaching on a little whiteboard and Caley found it very interesting and fun to write on a whiteboard.

We also started the phonic "100 lessons" book again and Caley is on lesson 20. At the end of last year she was around lesson 35, but since we haven't done those lessons all summer, she needed a little review. It's going better though since she can say some letters a bit better. Specifically the "th" sound is very difficult for her, probably because of her underbite.

A new development in this school year is Amelia's involvement. She wants to be more involved and likes watching Caley do her math sheets and such. Often I will give her a puzzle or blocks to play with.

We are including a Bible lesson on each school day and today we talked about Jesus, the cross and John the Baptist using Bible cards.

Today we also did a bubblegum craft (idea borrowed from Rachael). Both their crafts turned out nice.

On Tuesday we went to bible study and Caley played with some friends, she is the oldest in the group. On Wednesday we went to another bible study and she played with some other friends, more boys, which is good for her. We also went grocery shopping and brought a new mom and meal. Caley and Amelia enjoyed looking at a new tiny baby. We also had a visit from Uncle David who filmed the girls for a small part in his new movie. They wore clown noses.

Thursday we went to the library and got a lot of Tana Hoban books. She is a talented photographer and her books are mostly photos highlighting specific attributes like shapes and colors. They make for good math practice. We also went to Haven for Life, a teen pregnancy foster home, and Caley played with some friends. We hope to volunteer at the ministry in the future.

It was a good week and hopefully this year will be fun!