Between my more frequent doctor visits for our upcoming new arrival, getting the house in order for our upcoming new arrival, and just being extremely tired from lack of sleep and keeping up with two constant balls of energy (a.k.a. Hayden and Sawyer), the next month of homeschool is going to be pretty choppy. My goal is to at least get Hayden reading and writing a little bit each day, and possibly do a little math. But, I've decided not to stress over having consistent lesson plans at the moment. There is just too much going on, and I'm too distracted. Besides, Hayden is ahead of schedule anyway, and our plans are to homeschool throughout the year. So, I'm considering this a kind of early spring break for us. A break in which we do a little bit of work.
So, here is what we were able to accomplish this week:
Monday, we went to a Valentine's Party with our homeschool group. The boys had a lot of fun, and got to participate in some fun activities.
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| Relaxation Jars the kids made. Each jar was filled with water. Then, the kids added glitter glue, regular glitter, sparkly beads, crumpled foil, etc. The end result was a pretty type of snow globe. |
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| Hadyen making his jar. |
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Red food coloring, and a sprinkling of glitter.
Plus, a brownie. Can't go without that brownie! |
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| The spread of goodies. Those cupcakes were gigantic! |
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| Valentine card exchange. I love that most of the kids made their own valentines. Homeschool rocks! |
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| Heart crayons that we made for our valentines. |
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The finished product! Hayden signed the back
of each one. |
On Tuesday, I was able to have the boys do a little bit of Valentine math. They had a good time with these activities since it involved candy....
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| Candy Heart Math in the backyard |
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| An estimation activity |
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| Sorting the colors to the correct heart |
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| Graphing the results of what we sorted |
The rest of the week, Hayden focused on his Flash Frequency Cards, and he is now on Test 5 of Level 1.
He also read a new book and was able to add another section to his "I Can Read!" caterpillar. Six more books to go, and he gets a special trip to Barnes & Noble for a new book of his own!
In addition to those two things, Hayden was able to do a little copy and recall work on his high frequency words - not enough to really test at the end of the week, but enough to keep his writing skills honed. He also worked on a little primary addition with a color-by-number sheet, and he did his Reading Eggs program. So, it wasn't a total loss of a workweek. Hopefully, I can keep up this kind of thing for the next couple of weeks, and then take a REAL break once baby Holbrook #3 arrives.
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