We started off our fall break with fevers. We had big plans to hit all the favorite kid haunts in New Orleans, but ended up ticking close to home instead. We did make a trip to the sculpture garden and beignets in City Park. And of course made a few crafts for Halloween prep!
Once everyone was feeling better, we headed out to our delayed trip to the beach and had an awesome time in Florida! Really, are there beaches anywhere that are quite as beautiful as this?
Once we got back home, we started up on the special reading program for dyslexia - Barton Reading and Spelling. He seemed to like it, esp since we weren't reading anything as we started back at the basics of phonics. He would get frustrated when I'd correct him about going too fast or if I wanted him to repeat something. That's something we always work on though. He has a hard time if he doesn't think he's doing something right, and really has trouble accepting that mistakes are OK…
Here's a little number line and fraction work for math!
We also started doing some history from The Story of the World. It's essentially a chronology of short stories with engaging writing. It's apparently Christian "friendly," but does talk about all the world religions so hopefully things will stay secular for the most part! I love that it's short stories are great to introduce a topic, I can just use internet for hands on activities to help round the lesson out.
We rounded our week out at the zoo, and talked about the animals we saw in the context of their habitats and adaptations. We got a lovely first hand exerpience of watching a few snakes eat some mice. That was a new experience…. Plus, the two-headed snake obliged us for for a photo op.
Once everyone was feeling better, we headed out to our delayed trip to the beach and had an awesome time in Florida! Really, are there beaches anywhere that are quite as beautiful as this?
Once we got back home, we started up on the special reading program for dyslexia - Barton Reading and Spelling. He seemed to like it, esp since we weren't reading anything as we started back at the basics of phonics. He would get frustrated when I'd correct him about going too fast or if I wanted him to repeat something. That's something we always work on though. He has a hard time if he doesn't think he's doing something right, and really has trouble accepting that mistakes are OK…
Here's a little number line and fraction work for math!
We also started doing some history from The Story of the World. It's essentially a chronology of short stories with engaging writing. It's apparently Christian "friendly," but does talk about all the world religions so hopefully things will stay secular for the most part! I love that it's short stories are great to introduce a topic, I can just use internet for hands on activities to help round the lesson out.
We rounded our week out at the zoo, and talked about the animals we saw in the context of their habitats and adaptations. We got a lovely first hand exerpience of watching a few snakes eat some mice. That was a new experience…. Plus, the two-headed snake obliged us for for a photo op.
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