We all love the Usbone “That’s Not My…” books. I think we have 5 or 6 and they are always on birthday/Christmas lists. We even have one in French – C’est Ne Pas Mon Chien! After reading through our entire collection today I suggested that we make our own. We brainstormed the topic and decided…
We had a pretty laid back week! We’re doing a lot of interest-based learning and focusing less heavily on specific tasks. Baloo is loving it! We’ve started working on addition in Math-U-See. We did a bit of extra practice with trains. I love that the trains have magnets so we start with them separate. I…
One technique that really helped Baloo learn his letters was simply noticing that letters are everywhere. He was so excited to be able to point out letters when we were out and about. I’ll never forget one time when we were walking up to a store (Staples) and just as we were about to cross…
With MLK day on Monday and my husband being off work, my whole week was thrown off. I completely forgot to print out the usual You Can Read and Raising Rock Stars stuff Sunday night, and again Monday night, AND Tuesday night. By the time Wednesday rolled around I realized I might as well just…
Royal is 32.5 months old This week we focused on the letter G for goat. Royal had a little goat figure that he carried around for most of the week and enjoyed talking all about goats! He traced the letters all on his own! I think this is a first for him! He also…
We got back into our school schedule this week and we really jumped right in! There was some groaning on Monday but it was over quickly! We started off the week using our lap desks but I guess I didn’t realize how fast Logi-Bear had gotten over the holidays. We had to take an early…
I can’t say I am a huge fan of flashcards – and neither is Baloo. In fact, I’m pretty sure he intensely dislikes them. But our new All About Reading program uses them as a daily review tool and I know he needs to review. And you can bet I am not going to deal…