We're doing really well with schooling right now, and I especially like one section that we do every week. It's called Creative Expression. It's just giving the children ideas and letting them create something, or remember something and tell about it. We only do one of these a week, and I'm going to start posting them on here to everyone can read what Price has written.

Weekly Report, Week Two

Tuesday - We had a great day on Tuesday... we did everything we wanted to get accomplished. I think I'm only going to be able to update every week instead of every day. I just don't have enough time. So... I'll be back Friday to update for this week.
Monday - Today we had a fabulous trip to Garden of the Gods... if you EVER get a chance to come to Colorado Springs... you have to go there. It is free!! And it is absolutely beautiful. These pictures are pretty good, but they aren't anything like seeing it in person. Our house is open... just call! When we got home, we were all very tired, but I was determined to start spanish today. We did everything we had planned, and it made me feel really good to hear him counting to five in spanish to his daddy tonight. We'll be doing numbers for the next two weeks, then we move onto something else. Hopefully, he'll be able to count to ten by the time we're done, and we're going to try to always talk to him in spanish as much as we can (we don't know that much). We did take a little time to read some books today. We read Transformers, Tractors & Trucks, Emergency, and The Lion King. I'm excited about tomorrow because he doesn't have school anymore, so he'll be here all day. I'm making a slide show of today's pictures because there are so many. The slideshow is on the main page. www.chaplainwife.blogspot.com go check it out.
Memorization: phone number and address, AWANA verse
Bible: Read and discuss story
Language Arts: 100 EZ Lessons 32,33,34,35 and 36, do letter work for t and r
Science: Talk about our nature walk to Garden of the Gods
Art: Do handprint color mixing. (we didn't do this last week, so we're repeating)
Reading:
Books to Read: Transformers, Eels, Tractors & Trucks, Emergency, Winnie-the-Pooh, Thomas & Percy and the Dragon, Stories from "High Five" magazine, Ruby Bridges, Track Stars, Rosa Parks, Look & Learn Body, The Lion King (and DVD), Each Peach Pear Plum, And to Think I Saw it On Mulberry Street, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, Horton Hatches the Egg, Yertle the Turtle, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Munschworks Grand Treasury (15 different stories)
Price and Daddy Books:
The Horse and His Boy
Outings/Other Activities:
Monday (Field Trip to Garden of the Gods), Wednesday (Bible Study and lunch with church playgroup), Thursday (Gymnastics), Saturday (Gymnastics), Sunday (Church and AWANA)

Weekly Report, Week Two

Wednesday: We don't have any pictures from today, but we didn't have bible study because it is Spring Break, so we went to the park with some friends, then we came home and he did his reading words and read his story. We did have time to read Arkansas this morning during breakfast. I do have a picture of the reading words, but I'm not adding it until I have more pictures to download. Wednesday's are our slowest days, and tomorrow we get to do art... yay!!

Tuesday: We read Amelia Bedelia, Ants, and Baby's Book of Animals. We didn't have time to read a lot today because we had to get to our "outing" today. Price liked the Ant book, and neither of us liked Amelia Bedelia very much. It was crazy! We went to a Spring Break show at the library in Fountain. It was fantastic even though we didn't get to stay the whole time. Wesley was a little crazy... I had to chase him around the whole time, but Price laughed as loud as he could! I loved seeing him enjoying something so much! Our science experiment today was "fog in a bottle". It kind of stunk because it didn't work. I'm sure I did something wrong, and Price didn't seem to care that it didn't work. Maybe we'll try it again later this week. We got new books today that were going to be part of his Kindergarten curriculum, but one of them seems super easy, so I let him do a page today. We're going to go slowly and just do two pages a week. When K starts, we'll do two pages a day, four days a week. This is Book A, and we also bought Book B today. The only one left is Book C, and then he will move to the numbered books.. i.e. Book 1, Book 2, etc...

Monday: We didn't have colored eggs for breakfast this morning. We worked on our phone number and address. He repeated them after me, but then he said they were too hard and he wouldn't know them later. We'll probably work on them again next week if he doesn't have them by the end of the week. We read Atlantis, The Last Empire which took longer than I thought, but we're going to watch the movie tonight, so I wanted to finish it. Price really liked it. Then we cut out letter A words and glued them on our A project page. We tried the rice again this week because Price said if we would just push the rice harder, then it would stick. He was right, and our A looks really good. He did his word reading for today, and then we all took a break for lunch and read more books. We read Animal Parade, Atlantis Squarepantis,
All the Ways I Love You, and Ten Apples up on Top. We read the first chapter in our new Winnie-the-Pooh book, and I think I liked it a lot more than Price. It was probably too long, so we're only going to read half of the chapter tomorrow unless he asks to keep going. We're completely done today, and it went well. He's finished with his two-day-a-week preschool here on base, so he's just going to be mine from now on! Pictures will be added at the end of the post everyday, and then I'll make another slideshow when the week is over.

Memorization: done

Bible: Creation Completed story,

Language Arts: 100 EZ Lessons 28,29,30,31 and do letter work for a and e
Science: Make fog in a bottle
Art: Do handprint color mixing.
History/Geography: Look up our country, state, and city on the map. Learn the name of our continent, and find it on the map
Reading:
Books to Read:
Neil Armstrong
Adventures of Harold & His Friends
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)

Price and Daddy Books:
The Horse and His Boy

Outings/Other Activities:
Tuesday (Playgroup Activity at Fountain Library), Wednesday (Bible Study), Thursday (Gymnastics), Friday (Lunch and Playtime with Home School Group), Saturday (Gymnastics), Sunday (Church and AWANA)

Weekly Report, Week One

Memorization: Name and Birthday (mostly a review)

Bible: Creation of the World story, AWANA verse
Language Arts: 100 EZ Lessons 22(done),23,24,25,26 and do letter work for M and S

Science: Do the "Catch a Rainbow" experiment

Art: Q-Tip Painting "Try to paint a Rainbow"

History/Geography: Talk about where we live and look at it on the map. Talk about where other family members live and look it up on the map.

Reading: I got some letter M and letter S books from the library, so we're going to read those this week, and Price and Daddy are continuing to read The Chronicles of Narnia. They have finished The Magicians Nephew and have only one chapter left in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. So tomorrow they will start The Horse and His Boy.

Books for the Week:

Disney's Monsters, Inc.
Green Eggs and Ham
One Monkey too Many
Mouse in the House
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mess Monsters
If you Take a Mouse to the Movies
Skunks!
Sequoyah
Itsy Bitsy, The Smart Spider
Sally Goes to the Mountains
The Aesop for Children

Outings/Other Activities: Monday (Chuck E. Cheese with Playgroup) Wednesday (Bible Study) Thursday (Gymnastics & Maundy Thursday Service) Friday (Good Friday Service) Saturday (Resurrection Celebration with Home school Group) Sunday (Easter)

Monday: We woke up this morning around 7:00. We made green eggs for breakfast, and although he thought they looked "yucky" he did taste them, and ended up eating almost all of them. We read the bible story and did his AWANA verse at breakfast, then did our lesson 22 in 100 EZ lessons. He cut out some M words and glued then on another paper. We tried to glue rice onto a big letter M, but we couldn't get it to stick. I think we'll stop using the rice. He read words today on the board, and seemed to like the new way of doing the lessons a lot. We read Monsters, Inc., Green Eggs and Ham, Mess Monsters, and If You Take A Mouse to the Movies. Price and Daddy have read two chapters of The Horse and His Boy and they'll do chapter three tonight.

Tuesday: I guess I'm going to have to get more books for next week. I thought I had enough books to read a few a day and then be done, but we're more than half way through our books, and we've only done it for two days. He wants me to read books to him ALL the time. I don't want to say no, so we just keep reading. Today during breakfast we went over his letter sounds and read A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mouse in the House. I had to tell him that we couldn't read anymore until after his preschool. So he got dressed and I took him to school. Since Saturday was his birthday, they let him pick snacks today, and he picked pizza. Wesley and I went to school and ate snack with him and then got to stay for playtime also. When we got home we read One Monkey too Many during lunch, and then went over his letter sounds more. He did his word reading on the board, then we did our Rainbow experiment. It didn't work like I thought it would, but I think that's because I didn't use the right kind of dish soap. We still have to read his story and write a couple of letters, and then we'll be done.

Wednesday: We don't have much school planned on Wednesday's because we have bible study from 9:00-11:30. We did our 100 EZ lesson, and read a little. We actually didn't have any more M books to read because we've read them all, so we read a couple of Aesop's Fables that have M words in the title. He seemed to like them because they are all really short, so he wanted me to read a lot of them. We didn't have time, but I'm glad he liked them.

Thursday: Price had school today, and Ron is off. Today is art day, and since we made a rainbow for our science project this week, we did Q-tip painting and tried to paint rainbows. After we finished painting the rainbows, Price painted Darth Vader while I read a few books to him. We read Seven Spunky Monkeys, Skunks!, and Itsy Bitsy, the Smart Spider. After we finished reading he did some word reading on the board. We learned the letter f today. We had fun today.

Friday: Today was a weird one, but I did discover that Price can do school even if he's naked! (long story). We read the last of the S books, Sequoyah, Sid and Sam, Sam and the Firefly, and Sally Goes to the Mountains. He really loves having books read to him, so I'm hoping his love of reading will continue when he starts reading himself. He did much better with his word reading today. He knows the sounds of the letters, and he can say them individually, but when he starts to put them together to "decode" the word, he sometimes can't hear the word. It's hard to explain without sound, but he says c and at, but when he puts them together... he hasn't been able to hear the word cat... Today, it all changed and clicked. He was reading words after the first sounding, and he loved it. He read on just by telling me the two sounds. I think he's really doing great. I have to go back to the library because I didn't get as many books as I thought I got for the letter A. We'll be finished with those books by Tuesday. Overall, this week was great and stressfree, and I can't wait for next week.