I am not one to have my girls sit and work from a book all day long. I try to find different ways to make learning fun and exciting. So I’ve added to Ashlyn’s spelling curriculum by giving her fun activities to do each day after she is done with her spelling paper. So far [...]
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Sun, Earth, and Moon Unit
January 26, 2012 – 9:49 pm
We started our solar system unit this week by talking about the sun and Earth. There are so many activities I want to have my girls do that I decided to take 2 weeks on it. So next week we will finish it up by talking about the planets. We read a book called Sun [...]
Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
January 25, 2012 – 4:39 pm
I found this cute idea here (she has a printable pattern for the trees) and my girls loved it. We talked about what prefixes are and how they change the root word. Then I gave them lots of examples but only focused on re, un, and pre. I wrote the prefix on the trunk of [...]
Memory Verse and Handwriting in One
January 23, 2012 – 3:51 pm
I have my girls memorize a Bible verse each week. I write it on an index card on Monday and we hang it in the bathroom so they can reread it while they brush their teeth. On Friday I stick it in their Memory Verse “book’ which is actually just a small photo album. Throughout [...]
All That Matter
January 19, 2012 – 4:07 pm
This week we talked about the 3 states of matter and did a few fun experiments. My girls already knew a little about solid, liquids, and gases. They knew that heat could change water into different states of matter. So instead of focusing on those things, I taught them about the molecules and more about [...]