We’ve just finished our first week back in school after the holidays. It was good to get back into it and we have had a lot of pretty perfect moments in the process.
Literacy and Language Arts:
Boo and I have really started working on reading, I’ve been thinking about this and researching it for ages. I don’t know why I find this so intimidating but I finally got up the confidence to jump into it with Boo and it is going really well – much better than I anticipated. Once we are a little further along I’ll write a post about how we are going about it but this week Boo was pointing at some letters in one of her books and saying their letter sounds so I found the word cat and pointed under each letter and without missing a beat she said the sounds for c-a-t and then looked at me and said cat – it says cat! She immediately realized what she had done and leapt into my arms with excitement. I almost cried. It was one of those moments that you want to hold on to and remember forever. I’ve been so worried about doing this the ‘right’ way and we certainly still have a very long way to go but it seems we are on the path to reading and that is so exciting. All three of us are continuing with Webbing Into Literacy and this week was “The Queen of Hearts.” The girls had lots of fun acting this one out.
Cognitive Skills and Math:
One of the girls’ aunts sent them a Melissa & Doug Felt Pizza Set
Science and Nature Studies:
The rain is here and that means the chongololos (millipedes) are out. After a rain we are almost guaranteed to find a number of giant African millipedes around the house and they are a lot of fun to watch. If you pick them up they tickle your skin while they roll themselves into a tight ball. After watching the millipedes for a while we pulled out our animal encyclopedia and looked them up. Did you know that millipedes can have up to 700 legs!
Play:
Boo’s long dangly paper bracelet was my favorite creation of the week. She found some scrap paper and asked for some tape and worked quietly and intently for a while before proudly showing me what she had created. She was so excited that I wanted to photograph it.
Thoughts:
It has been a pretty thrilling week of preschool homeschool for us. The highs of this job can be pretty darn high.
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Your girls are so cute!!! What I would give to have my kids play with a huge millipede- that would be the thrill of their day!
They really are fun. My girls get so excited to go look for them.
I love Boo’s trendy fashion accessory! What a little trend-setting fashionista!
It might not be the most practical accessory – but she adores it even if though she has to keep her arm in that position to wear it.
I can relate to your excitement and how you felt when Boo read the word cat. It’s the same way I feel when my little one says a word in Spanish LOL
It’s the most rewarding feeling ever, just to know that our efforts are paying off! 
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How fun to learn about nature and science right there at home! Though I’m sure I’d probably jump away from the giant African millipedes. LOL On another note, how creative of Boo on making that bracelet! Love it!
I think you’ll be having a lot of those perfect moments once your little one starts his Spanish immersion school!
I love it when something “clicks” llike your daughter’s reading! Those are, as you said, favourite memories.
Those millipedes are really neat; I wish we had some like that here (but you can keep the huge spiders)!
It really was a perfect moment for us. I hope there will be plenty more to come – and yes we do get some pretty big spiders too.
Love the pic with the millipede
learning to read is such a rewarding part of teaching – enjoy it!
Loved the pizza pics. Millipede – a bit scary for me. But I guess I’m a wimp!
They are harmless – and lots of fun to watch – I promise!
What fun you are having – and the learning success is great too. We are in the stages of early reading here and Boy, Bird and Dog (our most recent book for the Virtual Book Club for Kids) proved to be absolutely perfect. Wild Thing (3) is so excited that he now knows how to spell/read Boy and Up. We are almost 100% there with Dog and Bird too. http://jennifischer.blogspot.com/2013/01/virtual-book-club-for-kids-move-eat.html
It’s such a great feeling isn’t it? I will have to check out that book.