8/26/08

Second Day of School

Between recovering from vacation drama and preparing for back to school I have not been up to blogging. But today is the second day of school and I am feeling good.

We homeschool, so obviously there is more work involved than just buying school supplies, and sending the child off to school with a full belly of breakfast in the dark of the morning. (One reason homeschool works for us: no early morning running off to catch the bus or walk to school--with me in tow). Micci's been doing great with our school routine: most of school is done in the morning before lunch. Yesterday was a success with handwriting and math exercises. Lorelei is doing pre-school work to keep her occupied and to make her feel part of school time. We started the school time with the Pledge. Lori held the flag while we recited the pledge, Mic held the flag today and I have been informed I am holding it tomorrow.

Mic prefers math over handwriting or reading. Yesterday we did handwriting first and math second. It worked, temperament-wise, but today I switched it math first, reading second. I also want to introduce new concepts or new things first and do reviews of prior knowledge second. Mic can print, but it's kindergarten level, now I am teaching handwriting: both form and neatness. Today I introduced place holders, equal, greater than, and less than, and adding larger numbers using place holders. Mic had lots of fun with place holders. I made a game board yesterday with pockets for number cards. So he had fun manipulating the numbers and learning about the ones, tens, and thousands (I didn't have enough room on the poster board for ten thousands, hundred thousands, and millions--boys LOVE those big numbers). Micci really enjoy the greater than and less than concept, because I told him they were like hungry alligators that only like larger quantities of numbers. He did insist on adding teeth to the signs.

Now Mic is playing some math games on the computer, while work on some more handwriting worksheets (and blog).

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Hey, I finally got off my butt and started a blog!

I have a lot of respect for anyone who can home school. In hindsight I really wish we'd gone down that path. I just lacked the confidence. Our kids all hated school and we had such problems keeping them motivated.

By  M, at 2:40 AM  

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