2 weeks

December 15, 2014.  Not a lot accomplished today because everyone was extremely tired.  We did however accomplish AAR and Sign Language.  W was not happy about AAR.  We were doing Fluency Sheet and he was tired and not really into it today.  E on the other hand read everything.  This was a first.  I usually just have them read so many lines and then do the "bonus" line if they wish.  So usually they read about half of the page.  Today E read it all.  His choice not mine.  He took breaks in between but that's okay.  Sign Language was Signing Time on Netflix and we went back to the first episode.  I figure we need to review every now and then.

December 16, 2014. Today we did Handwriting, Nutrition, AAS, and Math.  That is all for today.  This week is a slack week.  

December 17, 2014.  Game day.  We played with the Math Balance today.  Actually did our first math balance lesson but they thought it was a game.  We also did puppet bag reindeer.  

December 18, 2014.  We did AAR, Math, and Sign Language.  Math was another lesson on the Math Balance.  They love exploring the Balance. 

December 19, 2014.  Today was Social day getting along and home organization.

Christmas week.  Monday we kept it light.  We did AAR and Sign Language.  I am watching a 10yr old this week.  Today school wise not bad.  W however had a very rough day.  Something is going on not sure what unless he is just hyped about Christmas and the new kid.  Tuesday-Today was aweful.  Tried doing Math.  E was good until the worksheet.  W was not since the start.  I think we will finish up Math and make the rest of the week just a lets get along week.  Start Fresh next week with a new approach.  On Second thought we will not finish up Math we will do that next week also.

Love the flexibility of homeschool.

Not really a good school week but Friday was awesome

December 9, 2014.  Today not such a good school day.  Everyone was out of sorts.  We did accomplish everything except for nutrition.  We started with Sign.  I will give a review of signing time here soon.  It was good.  Then we moved onto Math.  Not sure that got today's lesson.  Will continue it tomorrow as it was ment to be a 1 or 2 day assignment.  Hopefully tomorrow will be better.  We did AAR now on this one they did good.  A few things moved over to mastered.  I didn't do a lot with AAR today as they are learning the voiced and non-voiced /th/ sounds.  They did pretty good though. We did handwriting.  W did really well with the u and y today.  E did well and continued on to other letters like z and w and a few others.  Last thing we did was FLL.  Today was more contractions when reading.  They were not interested.  Did 3 copy works today to get caught up on copy-work. Think it was too much copy-work for them.  Tomorrow is a new day.

December 10, 2014.  We started with handwriting today.  E again did more than what was required and W did good also.  Next onto AAR.  We continued with the /th/ sounds.  Then we took a break for lunch. Came back and did AAS.  The kids are mastering the sounds pretty well.  We are still working on the last sounds in a word as they still have the tendency to say the first sound instead.  Took a small break and onto math.  Math was aweful again today.  Not sure why unless it is the fact that lately there as been no math games.  They said they did not get today either which was a continuation of yesterday.  I think it is just the presentation of today's and yesterday's lessons.  We will move on but work on games dealing with 10's and adding and trading.  Since I was upset we went ahead and moved onto Spanish and nutrition.  Spanish was labeling a person's ear, nose, hair, face, hand, and foot.  They were able to use the spanish book on the computer and they did good.  We also finished with nutrition and they did good on the fun worksheet book that my mom got for them.

December 11, 2014.  We did the typical school work. Sign Language, FLL, AAS, AAR, Nutrition, and Math.  We did AAS and AAR at the playground.  It was good but windy and cold.

December 12, 2014.  Today was game day.  I made a special entry about today already.

All About Reading Level 1

Just wanted to share.  This year we started All About Reading Level 1 for both of my boys ages 7 and 5.  It takes us about a week to get through one lesson unless it is a reading lesson and then 1-2 days.  I break it up so they don't feel overwhelmed and it also fits their attention spans.  As the year as progressed the cooperation with AAR gets better.  Last year we signed up for Reading Eggs and both kids started on Map 1.  They have progressed to map 3, which means they have taken 2 tests and they both did well on the tests but never received 100%.  Well today is game day.  I had them do reading eggs they took the test at the end of map 3 and both kids received 100%.  I was amazed and shocked.  They did it.  I attribute it to All About Reading.  This program is amazing.  I believe that Reading Eggs has helped to reinforce what they are learning but they haven't been on the program alot recently (we would go months without using Reading eggs).  Just really wanted to share this win and that I am very proud of my boys.

Today was a good day

12/8/14.  After about a week or two of sickness from someone and school being low key-still done but not as much I was very surprised at the cooperation I received today from E.  W was tired but still did the work only complaint was the math.  So today we started with Sign.  For those that do not know we are watching Signing Time on Netflix.  It is great.  The kids and I are learning a lot and they are engaged while watching it.  We watch 10min. at a time.  That seems to be what works best.  We then immediately moved onto nutrition.  My mom gave us a workbook about how to be healthy so right now we do a few pages from that.  I read and they do the activity.  We then moved right onto All About Reading.  I started with W.  Today was a read this story day.  He did pretty well.  He read out loud without me right there.  His choice.  I am very proud.  E did very good also.  I think it might have helped that he heard the story first while his brother was reading but I am still very proud and this time he did remember to ask how many pages.  It was  win.  Then we took a break for Lunch.  Next on the list was Spanish.  We reviewed the words for hands, nose, and ear.  We then learned the words for foot, face, and hair.  Next moved onto All about spelling.  Right now we are still working on the sounds and we started working on the last sounds of a word like mouse (the sound is s).  We will continue with the last sounds as they have a tendency to say the first sound instead of the last.  Then another break.  Next up Math.  Today we had a worksheet at the end.  W was tired and complained throughout the process but did it.  E just wanted help on the worksheet.  My goal is to get the to do those without my help since they have the abacus and know how to use it.  They had a 5 min. break before First Language Lessons.  Today was had some dictation.  E is getting good about doing the writing without hassle I never thought I would see the day.  Both did good writing from dictation.  I only spelled the words and told them when it was a new word.  I am proud.  Today was a good day.

ASL Storytime and the kids didn't realize it was school

Today, the last day of the school week, we took a trip to the library for an ASL storytime.  There we meet an interpreter and a deaf lady.  While my mom had the children outside playing, we arrived early, I talked with the deaf lady and I also spoke to the interpreter some.  When it was time to start I sat down on the floor so E and W would sit on the floor to see the book.  I saw that they were trying to sign once in a while.  It was great.