Last week we completed MBTP lessons 5, 6, 7, and 8 and Right Start Math lessons 8 and 9. We are finishing up our study about environments and habitats. Ethan is pretty into it and likes to get the Animal Habitats book out and just flip through it. I’m still not to keen on the math but Ethan gets it and it seems to be working for him. I’m not a math person so maybe I wouldn’t be happy with any math that we did, who knows.
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This week the blog hop is all about first day of school pictures. Emerson loves to have her picture taken but Ethan was not much in the mood today and insisted on making weird faces.
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A little late getting this up but here is our little school room.
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Since this is our first year to homeschool I decided to go with a boxed curriculum.
We will be using…
Moving Beyond the Page 5-7 and and Right Start Math Level B
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Ethan worked on the letters h, m, and j and the numbers 0-6 with MBTP and numbers that start on the left for RSM 1, 2, 3, 4, and 7. In MBTP we finished talking about our home as an environment and moved on to habitats. He also completed Headsprout Early Reading during week 2. He was very excited to go and get the Jokers Fun House to go with his Batman Imaginext toys, he slept with it the first night it was very sweet.
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We have completed the first week of kindergarten. And if you are anything like Craig, yes I do realize it is summer. I think it makes more sense to go ahead and start now so when the weather is tolerable we will be able to go outside and play.
We completed Concept 1 Unit 1 Lessons 1-3 (Lesson 3 is a 2 day lesson and we haven’t done it yet), and Lesson 1 of RightStart Math. So far, it has not taken as long as I expected we are knocking it out in about an hour. We’ve only done Lesson one on RSM because I have managed to misplace the teacher’s manual. (bag over head for that one) I’m okay with that though because I really felt like I was insulting Ethan’s intelligence with lesson 1. The poor thing does addition in his head and I was talking to him about the numbers 1-3. It was basically math we were doing a year ago and this is level B. So when I find the teacher’s manual I need to sit down and figure out where to actually start.
He is enjoying Moving Beyond the Page (MBTP) we are learning about environments and habitats. And again he is bored with the copy work but he does need to work on writing his letters and numbers so we’re powering through that. He is also bothered that we aren’t going in alphabetical order – so far he has done B, H, M. Lesson 1 & 2 focused on maps and our environment and he has been kind of obsessed with maps the last couple of days and is drawing maps for everything.
We need to go to the library and check out some books but since we only have one car at the moment that will have to wait until Saturday.
I think next month we’ll go on a field trip to Fossil Rim. They have a couple of homeschool events coming up and I think we’ll go to this one and maybe this one if I can find someone else to take him. I’m pretty sure there is no way I could remain composed for 2 hours in a room with snakes and tarantulas.
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This was in one of my Google Alerts for Homeschool. I thought it was great and in a couple of months I might need to pull it out again to remind myself that we can in fact do this!!
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We started Little Otter Science today. I’m not sure what we will do but after today I’m pretty sure Ethan will want to probably do the whole weeks work in one day. At least, for right now since it is all we are doing.
We read :
And then, we did a little experiment from Play and Find Out About the Human Body. It did not go as it was supposed to but Ethan still had fun with it.
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I saw these on a fellow homeschool mama’s blog and thought they looked like fun. I’m hoping that they work because I’m not trying it again. The egg prep was a total pain in the ass- you have to pull the egg membrane out and it was not easy.
The black ones are with sugar, the purple kosher salt, the bluish ones are with table salt, and the brown is borax.
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