Another Smiling Face!

As of October 31st, we have another student in our classroom! Meet Jordan, aka JJ, a bright, funny, energetic 4 year old! JJ is joining us every weekday afternoon - it is truly a one room schoolhouse now, as I am teaching 1st grade (which is technically 2nd/3rd grade if you're talking about content) and Pre-K simultaneously! It's what homeschool is all about!

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The boys work side-by-side quite well!

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The only thing the boys do together are the 'First Language Lessons'. I read a passage from classic literature, and they both respond. Hunter with a dictated sentence, and JJ with a drawing in his literature journal.

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For JJ, we are focusing primarily on early literacy and pre-reading skills. Prior to joining us, he attended a private preschool that used ABeka, so he is quite used to tracing his name, as well as other letters and numbers. Our goal is to move away from the tracing, and get JJ writing independently, working up to basic reading skills.

As for the Pre-K curriculum, we are doing the same thing I did with Hunter - using the Brainquest Kindergarten workbook, and supplementing with worksheets made by yours truly :o)

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Here is my other smiling face :o) Still working hard, and FLYING through
Math U See Alpha!

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Another concept I am working on with JJ is the calendar - days of the week, months of the year, yesterday/today/tomorrow, etc.

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For the calendar, JJ counts all the days of the month, starting with 1 and ending up at the current day - the future days stay turned over until we get to them! (I saw it done this way in Hunter's mommy&me class a long time ago, and I loved it!)

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Today is TUESDAY!

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While we have had to make many adjustments, they have all been postive! We do science and history at odd, random times now (while eating lunch, while I'm cooking dinner, before bed...) but that is just the fun of homeschooling!