Fine Motor

So Brody had his kindergarten readiness test last week and while my Orton-Gillingham/Saxon 1-2 punch took him above and beyond the academic prerequisites, I failed to anticipate one major component...fine motor skills!  While he practices writing his letters often enough, we rarely use scissors or tweezers and what boy wants to thread bracelets and necklaces?  I could blame it on his ambidexterity and the difficulty it places on teaching him how he should hold scissors, but really, we know where the blame lies!

So...we've thrown out the math pages and letter drills and now we're doing this! :)

           

(Nothing says Valentine's Day like heart cereal bracelets...

for Grandma and Aunt Carolyn, of course!)

(Once we discovered they were edible, 

we decided boys could wear/eat bracelets "just this once"!)

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One Last Deep Breath....

It's almost her turn!!  

We'll be starting fresh come August with "Terminator Taryn"!  We're rounding the corner to spring and I plan to spend my last deep breath (a.k.a. summer) overcoming my emotional meltdown at the prospect of sending Brody off to kindergarten, and cinching up the preschool curriculum for the Terminator.  Hope ya'll are ready for a whole new level of crazy stories...this kid is a hoot-n-a-half!!

Get This Show On The Road...

Both Brody and I are sick of reviewing! Brody has moved beyond tackling simple letters/sounds and is now reading 3-4 letter words. We still do the 3 part drill with all our letters and we practice writing 3 letter words now on our house paper. I've also begun to reintroduce red words (the, from, to, said, etc.) to memorize. But our school time is really made up of calendar time (where we count and recite days/months), reading/writing words, and math (Saxon K).

Since we aren't doing anything new that I've created...I think I'm gonna clean up this blog and return it to it's original form as a one year program that works through individual letters/sounds. That way it's easier to navigate and I won't struggle every week to come up with new ideas that we don't actually end up using. :)

It's been a blast, and I'll continue to post pictures to the slideshow as I take them. Maybe someday I'll morph this blog to chronicle our journey through homeschooling with anecdotes and other resources, but for now...adieu!!

Fall Break

I'm tired and we're taking a break! There's nothing more to say about it! :)

Week 5

I feel the need to confess...things have been crazy around here and we didn't quite finish last week's work! In fact, I forgot about letter i altogether! And, of course, this would happen to be the week that our friend, Audrey, would join us for preschool...sigh!

I went ahead and did Week 5 lesson plans as if we had done letter i, but I will be honest and admit that we will be throwing in poor little i with j and u this week. :) Click here for Week 5 or on the link at the bottom of the blog.