We made some strides in rhyming this week which have me very excited! Next week we are going to take a break from our normal schedule to focus on the lion reintroduction. We are so excited about their upcoming arrival. Literacy and Language Arts: This week we learned “I Saw a Ship A-Sailing” from Webbing Into Literacy. We did the recommended activities and when it was time to act out the rhyme we built a little ship out of a cardboard box. We were inspired by the beautiful box ship featured on Nurture Store. That ship was made by an older child and had a tissue paper sail as well as a lot more detail. For our sail we used a sturdy stick and some [...] Read more »

This week the littles ran hot and cold, one day asking for school and the next showing no interest whatsoever. I’m trying to follow their lead with that. I keep reminding myself that they are young and that the most important goal of homeschooling this year is to keep it fun and never force. Literacy and Language Arts: We returned to our lowercase letter crafts this week with c for caterpillar from No Time For Flashcards. I think the girls missed doing them because they were so excited when I pulled out the supplies. We also continued with our nursery rhymes from Webbing Into Literacy. I’m finding out that teaching rhyming is quite a thing. I thought that since my girls are naturally drawn towards [...] Read more »

The girls and I did a lot of playing while learning this week. Friday was Malawi’s independence day and we went to town. Boo and Kooks caught a glimpse of the president while she and her cavalcade drove by. Literacy and Language Arts: Our nursery rhyme this week was Jack be Nimble and this is the first week that I’ve really spent any time looking at the activities suggested by Webbing Into Literacy. I wish I’d read them earlier. They have a lot of great ideas for teaching what rhyming is. This week we played a game where the girls had their backs to me and I had three different instruments (a xylophone, castanets, and a jingle stick). I played two sounds at a time [...] Read more »

Kooks turned two this week. We had our safari party last weekend so on Thursday we just had a small family celebration. Our homeschool was very low key this week but it was a lot of fun. Literacy and Language Arts: We learned Jack Sprat and started talking about rhyming. I’ve been pointing out rhyming words whenever we come across them. We also played this cute Noisy Letter Jump Phonics Game from The Imagination Tree. I wrote chalk letters on the deck and the girls said their sounds as they jumped on them or I would say the letter sound and they would find the letter to jump on. Cognitive Skills and Math: Kooks received these number puzzles for her birthday and Boo and I [...] Read more »