Alice Homeschools
A Home Based Education - Kindergarten year

This past weekend I realized we really haven’t been schooling much. Alice is still looking at school as doing worksheets. This coming weekend or next I am going to buy somethings so we have Montessori stations around. We actually probably have stuff we can use, but it isn’t designated for a particular station.

She is learning more addition, sounding out more words, learning to spell more words and we are going to get started on a family tree this week. I know I need to pay closer attention to what we are doing for the association we joined - we have five subjects we are supposed to be teaching from. This goes against the three r’s that I am mainly thinking about. I probably am teaching all five, just not realizing it.

Anyway, last week and over the weekend we were a very crafty family (see the posts at mebeingcrafty.com) - we painted t-shirts, made Halloween cards, made a birthday card for my neice, a birthday card for my SIL and finished up our Halloween notebooks I am sending my nephews.

So we haven’t been schooling. Rather, we haven’t been doing worksheets. We have had fun, I think Alice is learning - we talked about what paint is, we talked abou time because of having to wait for it to dry, we talked about color, etc.

I need to be better at keeping a daily (rather then weekly) report. I’m going to start this week and backdate it to last week while the info is still fresh in my mind. So we need to make some changes - completely okay to do since she stays home!