In our homeschool this week...
This week we spent the week on 'Caps for Sale'. We followed the guidelines from Before Five In a Row as well as a few other activities I found online.
CO really liked the story. He also liked the activities I did with a poem about monkeys and alligators.
Our seeds we planted a couple of weeks ago are growing...CO keeps picking lettuce and eating it
We planted a few more seeds this week as well.
Places we're going and people we're seeing...
Monday we started swimming lessons. It is a different teacher and he is now a salamander (he was a sea turtle). There are twin 4 year old boys in the class as well as a little girl (we have yet to meet the girl).
This was our first week of having two extra mornings out of the house for something called 'soundblast'. It is a speech therapy camp for 3 & 4 year olds. CO is behind in his speech development. When he was tested in the fall he didn't say the following sounds 'g, k, l, f, g, t, s, r, v, z' (when he is talking he subsitutes in the sound 'd'). We started a home speech therapy program (we went in a couple of times and they sent home activities for us to do at home) in the fall and since then he has started using 's, c, f' in the middle and ends of words, so he just needs to start using them at the begining of words.
My favorite thing this week was...
after supper on Wednesday, CO and I went out to see if our 'bear hunt trail' was accessible (vs being flooded with all the melting snow). We were able to go along for a small part of it, and then we just wandered the hillsides looking for treasures. We spotted a blue heron which was exciting for me. I am SO looking forward to spring. The bulbs are starting to push up some greenery in the flowerbeds.
What's working/not working for us...
this week I am being a tough mama and trying to get my lovely CO to stop kicking. I am removing privleges and toys that he treasures when he is caught kicking. He has been kicking furniture, walls, me, the dog, etc. Last week the neighbour watched him for the day while I had first aid/cpr training and she gave him a few timeouts for kicking her kid...sigh. Wednesday alone he lost minimum 6 things and was sent to his room 3 times...by Friday things were much better...I can only think of him kicking once and he showed remorse right away.
All the 'loss' of priveledges, many time outs and the extra mornings out during the week have hindered the amount off time in our week for school this week. I had lots planned that we never got around to.
Homeschool questions/thoughts I have...
I am so looking forward to April, for spring, for the 2011 Sonlight catalogue, for next year's homeschool curriculum...
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