Well, we are a full month into homeschooling now! For the first month I had decided to be pretty basic so that we could get a good routine down and it has worked well! Now we will be adding in more fun activities and projects! Today we kicked off our health/science unit on the body. I traced Emily as she lay on a roll of paper, then we will start with the skeletal system, just in time for Halloween, ha ha! We are also going to study chlorophyll and how the decrease of it in leaves makes them change color. On Friday, our buddies that homeschool will come over with their Mom and we will do a group lesson and hands-on learning projects. I can't wait!
Our new math books arrived last Friday! Emily will continue in her Kumon books, because they are oh so good, but the Singapore Math program is her main curriculum. We started today and completed lesson 1, Emily really enjoyed it. Getting new books is like opening a Christmas gift here, it is so exciting, she just can't wait to dig in and learn!
After speaking with a fellow homeschooling mama tonight on what she is doing with her kiddos right now and hearing that they are studying Colonial Times until Thanksgiving, I decided that would be perfect for our social studies unit. Emily has always had a huge interest in that period just like myself.
So, what's up with my title? The temps are up! We were down in the mid 50's/low 60's for over a week, and now we are going to have mid to high 70's for the next week! How fabulous! The kids had fun collecting leaves this afternoon and watching clusters fall from a nearby tree.
So, here is a funny....yesterday my kids and I were walking downtown. There was a man that appeared to be sleeping on a bench. We stopped a few blocks over at the police department to ask them to do a welfare check (already were), but my sweet Emily was concerned about the man so I asked if she wanted to go back, so we did. On the way we talked about the reasons the man could be a bit slumped over (health, tired, etc) and she says to me 'I hope he's not the type of asleep where you never open your eyes', I said 'Do you mean dead?', and Emily replied 'Yes, but I don't like to say that word.' Too cute and funny! I had to call her Grandma and tell her, it was just too funny how she said it! Anyway, still chuckling about it today : ) Emily tells me that the more you laugh, the longer you live anyway : )
Well, that about wraps it up for tonight. Elliot has therapy in the morning, and Emily has dance in the evening followed by a special visitor that is bringing my new toy! Wedneday is library day and church night. Thursday is the Farmer's Market. Friday we have our friends coming in the morning and then our friend Becky will be coming in the afternoon to do a Mary Kay session with Emily! She is just growing up so fast and it is now time to treat her to some special facial cleansers : ) Can't wait!
