FOCUS ON READING

Today I focused on Princess and her Reading.  She worked on her Reading Eggs and I encouraged her through it.  She finished another lesson and I was proud of her.  We then worked on copying some of the words she is having trouble with.  Mainly these are sight words.  She traced the words I wrote and then wrote them several times on her own.  Our next focus was to break out the Bob Books.  For those of you not familiar with them they are easy readers with simple, fun drawings.  I've used them with my other children and they've all enjoyed them.  Princess read to me and then practiced further by reading to each of her siblings.

 She read the first book to Boo.

 The second book to Elvis.

 And the third book to Bugs.  

I was really proud of her and she was thrilled with her accomplishments.

 The last thing we did was to go outside.  I've found that the more hands on we get with our learning the better it sticks and the longer their attention span.

 I had her write words from her reading on the driveway. 

 She spelled most of them with no help.

 Then the game began.  I called out a word and she raced to find it and jump on it.

 After a few rounds I then added in spelling the word too.

 I noticed she was still having trouble with a few sight words.  I wrote them in big letters in chalk away from the other words.  This time she jumped with one foot on each letter.  She would say the letter aloud and then say the word.  By the time we were done all the words but one were cemented.

 Bugs wanted to be outside too.  He played a couple rounds with Princess and then I set him to his own task.  He first counted by 2's to 100.

 Both busy at work.

He finished quickly and was looking for more.  This time he counted by 4's to 100.  He cranked them out FAST!

It was a beautiful day outside and it was wonderful to be able to do some of our learning in the sunshine and warmth.  The kids took some time to jump in the leaves and run around a bit too.  These are my favorite kind of homeschool days.

Yummy Yogurt!

While the girls were finishing up the lapbooks Bugs was looking for something to do. I asked him if he'd like to feed Princess yogurt and he eagerly accepted.

Getting ready to feed a hungry Princess.

Open wide!


I don't think he has the 'scrape the chin' maneuver down yet. Lol!

Princess couldn't figure out why we were all laughing so hard.

Before it all fell on the front of her shirt, (notice the big globs of yogurt), it was on her chin & under her nose giving her a moustache & goatee. Sweet Pea thought she looked like the KFC colonel and she reminded me of the snowman narrator in the "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" movie.

Princess joined our laughter! Bugs loved the attention & giggled the entire time.

I think she may have actually eaten some! Hee, hee!

Bugs was very proud of his work & I was happy he helped his sister so willingly & cheerfully. =0)