ON THE ROAD AGAIN! We started our February packing our camper and our ruck to travel again with Daddy-O for work. We all drove first to Indiana, where the girls and I have remained for the rest of the month while helping my dad after having surgery. Daddy-o left after spending a few days with us and made his way to work in South Carolina.
We are still making school happen even while we are in Indiana helping my dad. I did have to rearrange a few things I had originally planned for school, because we have ended up staying longer than I had first anticipated.
Here is a highlight of what we have accomplished this month for school:
Thumper has always sat in on our mornings and this month has not been any different. We have read Mountain Born, and Henry Huggins. We have just started reading Greek Myths and will continue that into next month. We have primarily been learning about Egypt this month for history and we are now starting in on Ancient Greece. In science we have been discussing our nerves and senses and will be exploring the digestive system soon.
Mouse has continued writing basic copy work from using Writing with Ease and a workbook I picked out for her to get a little more practice with. We had to adjust math a little bit, but luckily for us it was a natural break in our program to stop and talk about money, more specifically coins. So, we are using the Kumon My First Book of Money: Counting Coins to learn about pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. We relate this back to skip counting by 5’s and 10’s, which we have covered up to this point. She has worked on the states Michigan, Illinois and Indiana (how coincidental for us). Our favorite thing for this month would have to be using the new app for the All About Learning Press Letter Tiles App. It has saved my sanity of setting up and taking down a whiteboard or baking sheet while we travel to do reading and spelling.
We reviewed letters A, B, C, and D and introduced the letters E and F this month. We have learned about the numbers 1-7. We have read about Abraham, Jacob and Esau, and Joseph in our bible stories. As always, she has been enjoying her singing time and home of her favorites have been: Old Mc Donald had a Farm, Jesus Loves Me, Rain Rain Go Away. She has also been into drawing and coloring a lot during her free time.
