Here is what we were up to on our final month of homeschool in the 2016-2017 school year:

Language Arts

Besides our usual LA studies (AAS and First Language Lessons), Little Bug learned how to write a letter this month. The neighbor’s granddaughter had been in town and Little Bug and Isabelle love playing together. They decided to be Pen Pals and have now exchanged one letter each. Isabelle and her brother are also homeschooled and do CC, but sadly their Grandma is moving this month so I am not sure how much we will be seeing them in the future.

Little Bug completed All About Spelling Level 1 on May 3rd!

Sweet Pea has read the first three BOB books! I pulled our the activities and games I had filed away to use again with Sweet Pea. She enjoyed this very much.

Math

At the end of May Little Bug has begun LightUnit 106 and she has now completed 102 lessons (although she started on lesson 30) of CLE Math 100! We will continue to plug along in math over the summer so we can complete Level 100 sooner rather than later. As you can see in the picture, she wrote “poop on clocks” on her math page. While she does like CLE Math, she apparently doesn’t care for clock problems.

Sweet Pea continued to work through Horizons Math K but towards the end of the month, I pulled out some games and activities for us to do. Sweet Pea loved the Counting Bear Patterns!

Sarge

We begin our reading time by reading a Bible story from our Read and Share Toddler Bible. He loves the story of Sarah and Abraham and likes to point to the baby. I put some short picture books in his book basket because he was ready for some longer stories. He has loved “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” this month.

Sarge is working on his puzzle skills as well as speech. He attends a weekly speech therapy session. Gramps takes him to speech each week which I so appreciate!

Trip to the Mountains

The girls got to enjoy a week in the mountains in early May with Grams and Gramps! This was a special treat for them. Grams said at the beginning of the trip they tested their boundaries but once they learned the same rules still apply, they were pleasant, respectful little girls the entire week. I am proud that they can go off like that and the hard work of our training and discipline shows!

They got to go to the zoo, the hardware store (for gum out of the gum ball machine!), the red caboose and the river which is near one of our favorite BBQ places…and much more!

Meanwhile, I was at home with just the boys as Dave had a work trip that week. At first I was bummed that I was going to be stuck at home by myself, but then I decided I needed to enjoy the week for what it was: an opportunity to enjoy just my little boys. I had three years of just the girls before the boys came along and having time with just my boys is very rare. I enjoyed my five days with my boys immensely!

Nature Study

The girls came home with four caterpillars in their cocoons! We set them up in the caterpillar home and are waiting for butterflies as I write this!

Summer!

Our last day of school was May 24th! We are now in Summer mode for the next six weeks. I look forward to the month of June which is my BIG planning month for our new school year, which will begin on July 10th!

- Elaine