I'm finally feeling better and we're back to doing homeschooling full swing like we did the beginning of the year! During the sick months of my pregnancy, we just did writing, reading and math.
Here are some things I wanted to write about:
math: I printed off the book Memorize in Minutes from
this website and got it spiral bound for a dollar. It tells stories and pictures to memorize the multiplication tables and is great.
Science: We get educational videos from the library to watch in the car while we are driving around. We are also doing "research reports" where we research a subject and then write a report about it.
History: We are learning about colonial times, one of my very favorite parts of history! I got some activity books for colonial times. I have a fiction book that is more the beginning of the Revolutionary War, so I want to find a fiction book that is between the Pilgrims and the Rev. War. I plan on using my own words to explain what I read out of the text book.
Writing: They write in their journals most days and I don't correct that, except backwards letters and numbers (we're really focusing on reversals). To help them with reversals, they each have a chart. If they get 2 or less reversals in their writing (they can look at their alphabet strips) they can check off a box on their chart. After 5 checks, they can do a fun activity date with mom or dad. They also write reports for science, write letters to family and anything else I can think of. I made them spelling books and got them bound (maybe 50 cents) for each of them. I printed out the high frequency words and alphabetized them in columns with space to add more words. When they ask how to spell a word, we add it to their spelling book. That way I can tell them to look up a word and it will help them remember it because they have to look it up each time they can't remember it. I also put some spelling words as their passwords on the computer. I ordered a spelling program and a book "games for writing" that haven't gotten here yet.
