Today is Friday :)
We are all still sick around here. Thankfully we have the option of staying in our jammies and working from home...have I mentioned that I am loving this home-schooling thing?  :)
I think this is our first real full day.

830-930am (Math)
We started the day off with an hour of math to get it out of the way.
Big A worked on her math book for half an hour, and did really good. (mommy enjoyed cleaning the kitchen while big A worked) (little A enjoyed coloring pictures)
We played a dice game this morning, where Big A rolls 2 dice, and tells me the numbers, we write them down and figure out what they add up to. She really enjoyed this game.
Then we worked on her word problem math book. This book she has more difficulties with, so I read the question and she comes up with the answer.

930-945 (Free Time, Music / Drama)
For her break time she chose to watch the TV show High 5.
Its about music, dancing, drama, story telling. The theme of the show we watched today was colors, music, and feelings.
Both girls really love this short little show.

945-10:30 (LA)
Art / Writing  book
I am enjoying watching the creativity of Big A's stories that she writes.
Yesterdays story was about a caterpillar, today's story was about a bird.
It takes a while for me to figure out some of her words, but I am not concerned with the spelling in the book, (I will care later - but not right now - I am just very happy that she is enjoying writing stories :)

Big A said her hands were hurting - so we are took a break from writing...

10:30 - 11:15 (LA) Reading Time together
Mommy Read:
My Precious Little Bear. by Claire Freedman
Goldilocks & The three Bears.

Big A Read:
Have you seen my cat? by Eric Carle

11:00 - 12:00
Free Time & Lunch and get little A ready for her nap.
Girls made a fort under the coffee table in the living room.
Did Art, Singing,
(PE)  Indoor Knee Tag  - where they crawl on their knees and try to catch each other :)
Pop in Visit from CFS to give us little A's adoption papers, and a gift to congratulate on the finalization of the adoption!!  :)

12:00 - 12:30 (LA)
Silent reading

1230-1:00 - free time - mommy had to take a phone call.

1:00 - 2:00 (Science & Art)
Big A really loves animals, so we have decided to work through our Animal Science book first.
Today she started to color the pictures on the 2 pages, cut them out and glued them into "living" and "nonliving" groups. After this she grouped living things into "plants" and "animals"
It took her an hour (to start)...she is a perfectionist.
(We will be PVRing episodes of Wild Kratts , I find them to be very educational with animals.)
(We will also be PVRing episodes of Magic School Bus for Science as well)

2:00-2:30 (LA)
watched Electric Company
 
2:30-2:50 (PE)
Dance Party
Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes

It was a full - great day :)

I don't mind using TV for educational purposes. Big A learns a lot from TV.
I prefer to give her mostly educational shows instead of fluffy nonsense.  We enjoy a lot of PBS & Knowledge Kids).  Big A often "plays" or re-enact things that she watches on TV.


I need to figure out some new learning games because right now I feel like she is doing a lot of work books and not much play/learning... Thankfully she enjoys is it all.
Maybe we need to limit work books to 3x per week and do learning games / and activities the other 2 days...?
I personally find that 8:30-3:00 is too long for a homeschool day...would love suggestions on cutting this back.


Our Goals from now till Christmas...
Lower Big As anxiety
Lower the amount of Big As emotional meltdowns
I would also like to see Big A learn to count by 2's, 5's, & 10,s
I would also like to see her reading skills improve