Starting back has been great. Jett and I agreed to longer school days, more rigorous math and reading, and more fun... So for January, I think we have set a great precedent for the rest of the year. I don't want these month wrap-ups to seem like every day is the best ever, or like I've got it all figured out, or that Jett is the perfect kid, or that this whole experience is just dreamy:) We don't always want to do school. We don't always have good attitudes. We don't always do school. We don't always have order or a lesson plan. But we have a few goals to guide us and lots of forgiveness and lots of recess and I, of course take pictures on our best days:) Homeschooling is a learning process for all of us. And a major focus of our curriculum is to instill a love of learning into Jett. By learning ourselves and growing as needed and sometimes forced the rest of Kindergarten is sure to be just peaches....or all recess.
The Dirty Dozen
#1 SPARKS is awesome!
#2 Area: rectangle and square
3# Money, Money, Money, Money- MONEY!
#4 John 1:1-2 in English AND Latin
#5 Atoms and what the heck is an Atomic Number?
#6 Grandma Moses lived to 101 and didn't start painting until she was 80!
#7 Georgia O'Keefe painted how she wanted- not what her art instructors told her to paint. Thank goodness!
#8 The 14th Ammendment and the Industrial Revolution, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Swift can be sung in such a way that
Bob Dylan could not compete.
#9 The Rocky Mountains are more massive than we realized. Colorado has more than just Pikes Peak to be proud of. We really want to go to Washington and see the Cascade Mountains.
#10 Phonics is a snap. Book 5- here we come!
#9 Laura Ingalls read from a McGuffey Primer in Little House- and we have seen it with our own eyes- therefore it must be cool and read daily.
#11 Measuring and Graphing don't necessarily need excel or even a ruler!
#12 It takes a village to learn to tie your shoes-
or at least some helpful cousins and
We also went to the library and did some stocking up and some rediscovering...
Books:
Puff the Magic Dragon
The Magic Boots- my personal favorite
Magic Tree House- Ghost Town at Sundown
If You Lived at the Time of the Civil War
Grandma Essie's Covered Wagon
A Picture Book of Abe Lincoln
A Picture Book of Robert E Lee
Francis Scott Key and "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Lewis and Clark, Explorers of the American West
Bumble-Ardy- a definite must read!
The Coin Counting Book- really cool- Jett poured out his piggy bank and lined up all of his coins with the pictures in the books to count all of his booty- a whopping $20+ in change!
Bob Books (set 1 and 2)
McGuffey Primer (Lessons 1-10)
American Poems and Folk Tales:
Yankee Doodle
Davy Crocket Meets His Match
Buffalo Gal
Billy Boy- my Grandpa used to sing this!
Clementine- he also sang this!
Good or Bad?
Winter Poems:
Something Told the Wild Geese
Oregon Winter
I Heard a Bird Sing
Moon
A Merry Note
***Oh and some of the more fun of our new year plan:
farm exploring!
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you. Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you. Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD’s unfailing love surrounds
the one who trusts in him. Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous;
sing, all you who are upright in heart!
Psalm 32:8-11
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