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Harvest Unit Week Twelve – Thanksgiving
We started out this week by playing airplane, which gave me a chance to combine learning letters, numbers, manners, food serving, geography, and singing all in one lesson. Not too bad for a Monday! I made little boarding passes with Name/Seat/Destination on them, and numbered our rows with lowercase and uppercase letters. The girls chose …
Harvest Unit Week Eleven – In November
Week eleven started out with me being sick, then we had a nice day midweek where we all felt great before the girls came down with the same cold as me. We didn’t do quite as much as we normally would, and apparently it affected my picture-taking ability because most of the pictures came out …
Harvest Unit Week Nine – More Pumpkins
This week, we focused on pumpkins again. The two pumpkin books we read were The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steve Kroll and Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson. The Biggest Pumpkin Ever is a story about two mice who are both taking care of a pumpkin at different times of day, unaware of each other. Pumpkin …
Harvest Unit Week Three – Tractors and Mud
Mimi and I discussed her goals for this school year and the biggest thing she wants to accomplish is learning to read. Our first step was to assess what letters, uppercase and lowercase, she can recognize without any hesitation. This was our first “test”and she enjoyed doing it. If there was anything except 100% confidence …
Harvest Unit Week Two – Where Milk Comes From
My biggest goals for homeschooling are to cultivate a love of learning in the girls and to master subjects before moving on. Homeschooling gives us the opportunity to slow down and develop a greater understanding of topics and also take the time to redo anything that might need more attention. It can be easy to …