After quitting Connections Academy, we took a week off to breathe... and so Mommy could work on a lesson plan for the next week. Wow, does a lot go into lesson planning! I have a tremendous amount of respect for teachers that have more than one class... more than one lesson plan. Because this had to be one of the most exhausting nights of my life so far. And I've been through childbirth four times! ;)
We don't do school on Mondays. Not because we don't want to but because my littlest son has speech therapy in a bigger city that's over an hour away every Monday. We leave by 10 in the morning and spend a good hour at the McDonald's play place where my kids play with the other homeschooled kids having lunch. Or, ignore their existence completely like Gummybear here. After that, we have an hour of therapy at the rehabilitation center, a stop at the department store for essentials we can't buy in our little town, and then we drive home for an easy dinner of frozen pizza or something.
So, today was our first real day of what Monkey has decided to call "Mommy Homeschool" since we were calling Connections Academy homeschool. We worked on reading comprehension where we read a paragraph and answered a few questions. I was impressed at how quickly Monkey answered the questions correctly not having a text book in front of him. Could it be the formality of text books that keeps him from calming down enough to comprehend?
We worked on a page from our spelling book where we had to sort words like math, patch, and whale into th, tch, and wh categories. Even though these words are incredibly simple for him, I'm finding that it's very important he pays attention to the makeup of these words to help with pronouncing harder ones. After that, he figured out which spelling word was missing from the sentences I wrote on the white board.
Then, we played
Phonics Tic Tac Toe together on my iPad 2 before he worked on his handwriting and finished up with a math assignment he doesn't need help with so we leave it for "independent study" to teach him responsibility.
It was an easy but uneventful day as we're both waiting impatiently for our Amazon order with Science, Social Studies, and our educational computer games to arrive. For now, we were stuck relying on the workbooks Connections Academy said we could keep.
Froggy worked on tracing the letters A, B, and C... and completed 4 pages of "what's different?" in his Pre-K workbook. We are also waiting on our Amazon order.
Amazon really likes to take their time when your order qualifies for free shipping!
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