Today we decided to use Karen Andreola's book "Story Starters" for writing. We made up the stories and I wrote it down and the boys copied it. We made some silly stories that had us all laughing. Then, the boys wouldn't stop being goofy and do their writing.
I made binders for them with divider tabs for writing, scripture pictures, art, music, spelling, book reports, science and music; and checklists at the front, one page containing all the checklists for the week so they can see what needs to be done (and me) and they have fun putting an "X" in the box when it's finished. Then we have everything in one binder and they'll have one for each year for us to look back on.
For science today we read "Discovering Nature's Alphabet" by Krystina Castella and then went on a walk to look for letters in nature. We found there are lots of "O's" and lower case "l's" and lots of "Y's".
Nathan's "O":
Alex's "P":
Katie Cutie:
Hi Kristie,
ReplyDeleteI like to see all of your ideas. So about the binder, are you going to put any little thing they do in that subject in there? Is this something that would replace a nature or science journal? Maybe to keep everything in the same place?
Kelly