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I took this video while Jonathan was reading a couple nights ago. It is fairly long. I pieced together multiple clips that I took using my phone. You’ll see and hear how he sounds out words, can get frustrated at times, and he’s a wiggly little boy 🙂 The book is a Pathway Reader, which…
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Pre-K Day 1
Here is what our first day looked like…. Spell to Write & Read Word List A – Jonathan sounded out the words that I said aloud for him. He wrote the first two on his whiteboard. Then he told me which letters to write for the rest of the ten words. Then he traced the…
The End of an Era
Ok, maybe my post title is a bit dramatic… But this is a major change for our family and especially me personally… Josh and I have been contemplating our next steps concerning my “career” for a while now. Expecting a second baby will do that to you. Back in the spring, we decided that I…
How we chose a homeschooling method
Our adventure to determine what kind of homeschooling best fits our family started with looking at Arborbrook Christian Academy. If we were to send Jonathan to school, we believe that this is the best option in our area right now. But, private school is not in the budget… and not exactly what we feel is…
Me? Homeschool? Yeah, right…
As I look back, I think that God has had me on a journey to bring me to homeschooling for quite a long time… When I was in elementary and junior high, my answer to the what do I want to be when I grow up question was always “teacher”. Somewhere along the way, I…