7am - Up and dressed, then breakfast and morning chores. Started the morning with circle time at 9am. Xavier didn’t participate, he woke up on the wrong side of the bed, lol.
Went straight into math. Ethany did her review questions, she had a little trouble with sequencing numbers backwards so we will review that tomorrow. Her new topic today was ordinal numbers we made queues and races with little people and worked out who was first, last, 3rd, 6th etc. That worked really well, she had a little trouble with this a few weeks back.
She completed her reading assignment and copywork no problem. After that we verbally spelled some words from Explode the Code, again no problem there. Then she narrated her story from her reading assignment.
Colour matching
Make a Beetle
Thread some wooden beads
Xavier has really enjoyed the independence of collecting and putting away his own activity bags. He did however want to pick out the bags and work on the more ‘fun’ ones first but I have put a stop to that advising that they must take from the front of the box. We will see how long that lasts.
Xavier happily stoped and did some counting with me. We made it quite fun, how many seats on the aeroplane? How many people in the race? How many animals? Etc. We then did some shape matching with the Shape-O which Imogen joined in on too.
Matching cvc words with pictures
Number cards & counters, making odd and even numbers
We read ‘This is my Family’ by Gina and Mercer Mayer and Ethany stuck a picture of our family in her notebook along with the sentence ‘This is my family.’ She copied it from the cover of the book.
We read ‘Little Mouse’s Book of Colors’ and Xavier pointed out all of the items discussed in the book.
We read ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and Ethany said “Isn’t that a bit magic that his dinner was still hot”, which sparked a discussion about time elapsing. How when you are being ‘wild’ time can seem like forever but it isn’t really. We also talked about how Max’s Mum had sent him to his room because he was being ‘wild’ and the same thing happens in our house.
Imogen enjoyed the stories cuddling up on the couch. The rest of the time she has made good use of the toy shelves.
I read Brer Fox and Mr Jack Sparrow to Ethany and Xavier whilst they worked on a quiet activity from the activity bags.
The kids tidied up morning mess while I made lunch. Over lunch, 12 noon we listened to some classical music from 2 compilation CD’s we got from the library. Lunch was fruit, sandwiches, polony and cheese, pretty standard.
Discussion over lunch –
Me- “What was your favourite activity this morning?”
Ethany – “Colouring the Easter Egg.”
Xavier – “Smallest to tallest.” (He actually complained about having to do this one, but I think he felt a real sense of accomplishment when he completed it quite quickly with really no trouble at all.)
Ethany – “What’s 18 + a?”
Me - What does a = ?”
Ethany – “a = 2, oh 20!”
Me – “Well done!”
We have random math conversations all the time, along with spelling conversations. You never know what they are going to come up with next!
1pm – Imogen asleep, Ethany & Xavier in sandpit. Me cleaning wound on cat – another cat has obviously had a go at her this morning.
Three loads of washing in from the clothes line. Brief discussion on number sequencing with Ethany whilst she put the pegs in the bucket for me.
Hung two loads of washing out. Informal bird watching with Ethany, spotted a native Dove and saw some 28 Parrots fly overhead. Ethany and Xavier were both very helpful handing pegs and washing to me.
Emptied dishwasher, stacked it again.
Read a few pages from “The Magic School Bus, In the time of Dinosaurs” at Xavier’s request. Ethany and Xavier back outside I had my first cuppa for the day and a few minutes quiet time.
2.30pm – Imogen awake, kids all had a museli bar and drink for afternoon tea. We made mini quiches for dinner. Kids helped to make quiches.
Xavier and Ethany play Reading Eggs. Xavier passed his first Quiz on map 1 which was a big achievement.
Ethany got changed and we went to swimming. Ethany went into her new class, it went OK although she wasn’t too keen on the teacher who was a little too strict for Ethany’s liking. This wont be her normal class so I am not making any issue of it.
Back home and ate dinner, the mini quiches were yummy! Kids all bathed then read to again this time it was –
Ethany read a chapter from “Nicholas and the Hammerheads”.
I read ‘1-10 book’ for Imogen, ‘The Magic School Bus, In the time of Dinosaurs’ for Xavier and ‘Cinderella’ for the family.
All quiet now at 7.30pm. I have dishes to do and washing to fold.
