Our Week of Work

This has been a great week for me. Our rhythm is starting to flow through our days. Even though we still start later than I had hoped, I have relaxed into the fact that we have plenty of time to get everything done. Thursday was a great day where we started our day, had circle time, did our mental math, drumming, reciting poems...both funny and serious....had our main lesson and worked hard on word families and long and short vowel sounds. We did some wonderful drawing and paintings. Jack has come to expect us to paint on Mondays, go to the park on Tuesdays, do form drawing on Wednesdays and knit on Thursdays.....now we have to get the baking/cooking in on Fridays, although he helps me prepare dinner in the crock pot many day

For those who enjoy all the academic work, here is our culmination of a block of work on long and short vowels as well as some other vowel sounds.....you probably can't read the blackboard but I listed all the vowels, short and long, and Jack came up with words that had those sounds in them. Working on word families and recognizing those sounds. Also to the right of the board are our 6 magic words. These were given to Jack by the fairy.....they are sight words for him to learn. He's doing a great job!

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These are our filo clay lion and bull for the fable about the Lion and Four Bulls. Pretty good, even if I do say so myself!

We also read the Frogs and the Mice and so Jack made a frog for the nature table.

On Monday we painted. I painted a forest with evergreen trees and am quite proud of it!

Jack painted an owl. And it's an amazing owl. I am continually amazed at his art work.

One day while I was waiting on Jack to finish his picture, I used block and stick crayons to make this picture of sunrise, noon, sunset and night time.

Here's Jack picking out a picture from our new book about animals. We read some wonderful stories from the book the week like "Why Mountain Lion Has The Longest Tail" and "How Skunk got His Stink and White Stripe". Beautiful stories!

One of our stories was about how the squirrel could fly. Here are 3 squirrels on a branch, by me.

And here are Jack's squirrels.

Jack loves to draw! He has become quite the artist for his age. He takes great care and makes sure it's just the way he wants he. He usually has a picture in his head of what he wants to draw for our story.