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…

I’ve (finally) completed the add-ons for sight words!  These correlate with the You Can Read program as 1+1+1=1! I’ve also included a zip link to download ALL the add-ons at one time! Download All Units in a Zip File Here or download individuallyUnit 1 (a, and, see, the)Unit 2 (I, can, me, you)Unit 3 (like,…

  We’ve started rowing Katy and the Big Snow this week and I wanted to start it out with a bang.   I guess I was feeling daring (insert huge grin here).  I didn’t tell the boys what I was doing at all so they were a bit surprised! We started off by brainstorming what buildings…

Royal is 31 months We spent a lot of time working on body parts and Ff is for foot this week.  Royal isn’t as much into the Truth in the Tinsel as Baloo (although he really enjoys the crafts) so it’s been nice to have something else to do with him as well. This is…

I’d planned to take off for the month of December and just focus on Christmas and the real meaning behind it, but since we’re using Truth in the Tinsel and it’s all laid out for us so well, I’m finding we have some extra time on our hands! We’re been working on our Kindergarten Snowman…

We do not often get snow here in Southern Alabama, and when we do it doesn’t stick (last year it didn’t even get the ground wet!).  So I decided to bring the “snow” inside with a snow theme for the entire month of December.  Just about everything we working on will be with the snow…

After Ami posted her paint chip sudoku I knew I had to make more versions of this game for Baloo.  He really enjoyed this game more than I thought he would!  It was challenging enough but he could still do it and he’d definitely learning some deductive reasoning! So to go with our snowman theme…