Week 4

This has been a very light week. We have had play practice taking all morning and visiting grandma at the hospital and grandpa at the nursing home. We have school some in the car but mostly worked on memory work for CC at home and FLL ETC in the car math has just been flash cards when we can fit them in. We cant wait to get to our new normal next week. One co op starts and two more the following week. I hope to get a full list of what we are doing on here soon as we are making some changes and why we make those choices

It is such a wonderful gift to watch your child "see" what she is learning. We are working on Story of the World and not only using the book and the Usborne book and the Activity guide we are using as many books I can find from the library. It was so neat to listen to her read one book after another and then have to her go wait I just read something about this and get another book to compare and contrast. Seeing that makes me sooo happy that we are teaching her and watch her get the connection and helping her through that. While I am not anti brick and mortar school I am anti for her. Doing some science work she "saw" the connection with her Classical Conversations memory for the week and what we are working on with the My Pals Science. We are using as many books as I can find with the library and she at first HATES to read them until she something in there that she has already learn or is currently leaning about in science. We are done with Spanish for the summer but she is still trying to learn and use words from her class. We have gotten more in to art. We are using more crayons, markers and paint this year than in the last. I need to make sure that we start using them more and art class with Co-op begins soon with Mr. Bader who is an professional art teacher. I need to work on lessons about the the Artists that he is working on this year. Her dance class this summer is more of a dance party dance which is way different that what she is use to and music that she is not use to listening to. (Well besides YMCA) She is confident with ballet and tap event thought she is not perfect. She is finding this more of a struggle. She prefers ballet. Her recital for this summer fun class is in a few weeks then back to normal. I think next summer we will stick with what we know we like. Soon she start with ballet tap and jazz with the studio and ballet and drama with the co-op. Her co-op play starts next week. She just realized that the director casted her for lines that she has to memorize again. This past spring she refused to due her lines due to it being what she thought of as a boy part in the jungle book. This time we told her she needs to just try and DO IT. She can remember the lines no problem and LOVES being on stage this quick play hopefully will get her over the hump of being able to do more than sing and dance on stage. Although it is cute when we were at the Muny this past week she told me she did not want to be a polo shirt employee that when she worked there she was going to work the stage. The Math jump that we have taken is working so well that she is doing math that she doesn't even think that she can do. We do two MEP sheets that we do and the either Math games or worksheets from other programs or life math. She is finding that math is all around us. We have started using Bed Time Math blog. Doing her FLL (first language lessons) she is getting bored and said that it way to easy. I think we are going to go ahead and do lessons every day and then get that book DONE with and start MCT around Christmas. All about Spelling we are still review doing words both orally, finger spelling and or written. It is fun to watch her spell the word wrong orally and then with out fail write in air or on paper and spell it correctly. Classical Conversation she is rocking through. Her memory is amazing. So far she has everything memories. I am using another persons website for online games which she love. She loves the president cards I got at the dollar spot at Target and trying to get them in order. She amazes me on how well she does. I wish I had her ability to memorize like she does as fast she does. My Pals Sciences i am slowing her down by adding LOTS of living books and videos and experiments that are not in the book. She is FLYing thru the book. The whole series is suppose to take her two years I am not sure how with this kid that it could take more than a few months Writing with Ease really only takes less than 10 mins and I really think that we are going to rock thru this and be done by Christmas and use MCT. I am getting ready to order Life of Fred as part of her BUILD system and then for next year order BEAST Academy and do them on different days. Who knows maybe that will also be merry Christmas to me too. Tomorrow we will go back and fill in any of the Olympic metals in the Map we have in the living room. We mark them first on a piece of paper and then on the map by what metal and what sport. We will write a small paper on each sport after reading about it. (it may be mom and dad type up a narration or something she handwrites). Soccer is getting underway. We are having two practices a week getting ready for a tournament. She is on a new team with new girls with one of mommy's oldest err longer friends. She is having fun even though most practices have been over 100 degree temp. She again is the youngest on the team and most of these girls know one another she thankfully walks right in and fits in!! Helps to have a friend on the team! Soon is a field trip with friends on what we are learning about in history. I am excited to hear about it. Now to work on lesson plans for the rest of the week!