Learning time
Some highlights of our learning moments of the last month:
We finished the Castle book! All the children made some wonderful drawings of their castle, countries, and flags. Moriah’s country location was grounded in solid fact- she chose an actual spot in the Atlantic Ocean for her island country. Toby’s castle drawing was a marvel of defensive engineering. Samuel’s country and castle were a complete flight of fancy, with numerous dungeons populated by fanciful monsters and ruled by rhinocermonkeys.
The children are participating in the Peoria Public Library reading program and summer worksheet program. The theme for the worksheet program is ‘the 60’s’. Elsie and Peter get the easier worksheets, and the older children have harder ones. Topics range from ‘Dr. Suess’ to ‘Presidents of the 1960’s’. Moriah, Elsie and Peter have completed the worksheet program and recieved their prize- a tie dyed kite. (Unfortunately we haven’t flown them yet, as I deemed Saturday way too hot to go to the park to try them out). They get prizes in the reading program every week, and have 3 more weeks to go.
The four reading children have all redeemed their Barnes and Noble reading sheets for a free book. Moriah finished both her sheets and got two free books- the others have almost finished filling out their 2nd sheet. Samuel was enthralled with his free book, Gregor the Overlander, by Suzanne Collins. He found the next two books in the series at the library and devoured these rather hefty volumes over the span of 3 days.
It’s time to order new Singapore Math workbooks! Moriah and Elsie are almost done with theirs, and the boys are not far behind.
Peter has started showing an interest in reading, so we have been doing some more phonics. He hasn’t had any “Aha!” moments yet, but he continues to be interested. He also enjoys completing his writing practice and math readiness worksheets while the older children are working on their workbooks.
I’ve chosen the next learning time read aloud book- The Mystery of the Periodic Table. This takes a historical look at the discovery of the elements. I’ll let you know how we like it!