As I mentioned in our March Wrap-Up we are now in South Carolina with Daddy-O for work. We are most definitely enjoying the warmer weather and the girls are taking advantage of the beautiful days and spending a lot of time playing at the playground across from our camper. I have posted 2 posts this month for the blog titled Home-school Year-Round and Planning our Year this month.
We have gotten to also visit family and spent the month traveling to see my cousin play in some High School Baseball games. We have also taken part in two local festivals near us (the Iron City Festival and Spartanburg’s Spring Fling. We have also busied ourselves around the campground with mini golf, fishing and taking our dog ‘lil Lucy for walks.
In school this month we have been covering the story of Moses in Exodus and learning about what makes up the Trinity in our bible studies. We have continued to study Ancient Greece in history, we have talked about the first Olympics and the differences in Athens and Sparta and have started working on studying Babylon. I finished reading aloud The Year of Miss Agnes and we have started Follow My Leader. We finished the circulatory system in science and moved onto and finished studying the respiratory system. We were able to make “blood” with Daddy-O one evening when he came home from work.
Mouse has been moving right along in her school work and began Level Three for All About Reading and is moving along at a good pace with it. She is almost done with Level One All About spelling but is currently hung up on spelling plurals with two lessons to go. We took a break for a bit and I had her read Magic Tree House: Hour of the Olympics. I’m trying to build her confidence in being able to read chapter books. She did very well and I for see being able to use other Magic Tree House books in the fashion in the future with her. She started back with Math U see upon our return and her first lesson back in the book was right along the line, of where I had to fill in while we were in Indiana, where I had her and started with adding money. She came to a stumbling block on the next lesson of rounding to 100, so I added in some more practice sheets for her and we seem to be well on our way again.
Thumper spent the first part of the month reviewing the letters A through H. We also finished her number book, and she really enjoyed showing off her result to her Daddy-O. We also began work on the letter I and began working on a shape study. We were able to read Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in her Pocket and a few other short stories. She seems to be catching onto and enjoying the rhyming we are working on with All About Reading Pre-Level. She rhymes all the time and is constantly asking me if two words rhyme. I had an AH HA moment with her this month as I chose “Every Move I Make” for her songs one week. She had come home from church several times saying she sang “Na na na” this was the song, and a favorite of hers this month.
Looking forward to what the Month of May brings us as we spend another month in South Carolina. I plan to blog about in this next month about what a “typical day/week” looks like for us and how we approach the use of mastery learning.