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Wednesdays have turned into our science day. Today, we read: This was a cute and engaging book about levers, wheels, and pulleys. We already knew about simple machines from reading The Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Science and Nature earlier in Sonlight Core P 4/5. After reading, we decided to go on a scavenger hunt…
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Friday Funnies
Heard from Jonathan this week: “I like Antartica. I want to go there, but I’m too little.” “It is chilly in Antartica, but it is my favorite.” Jonathan has suddenly become interested in the world map that hangs on the wall in our office / schoolroom. When we read stories from our Sonlight curriculum, we…
Jonathan’s BIG Decision!
I was settling in after dinner to do a little schoolwork with Jonathan while waiting for Josh to get home from work. Around 5:45 p.m., we were starting to read the second story out of Stories from Africa from our Sonlight P 4/5 curriculum, but we only made it to the second page…. The little girl…
Scheduling and Lesson Planning
I think I’ve finally settled on a lesson planning system that I like. The Sonlight curriculum that we use is mostly planned out for us, but I like having an electronic copy to refer to as we work and for record keeping. Sometimes I don’t do everything that is planned and I often move things…
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…