Alphabet Path Review Week A-G

This week I will be reviewing the Letters A through G with Moran, Myffwyn and Corbyn.

Ideas for this week will come from:

~ Cuisenaire rods for the Cuisenaire Alphabet book. Review from A-G
~ make some homemade matching work sheets :
matching up the Capital and lowercase letters
matching drawn pictures with letter sounds
~ tracing over letters
~ writing out letters
~ reviewing the sound pouches
~ make up a story about the letters A-G and tell it using chalk board drawings.
~ use flash cards and ask for identification
~ do concentration card games
~ blend some of the sounds together using A-G as well as some of the other letters they know ie. M, N, O, R, S perhaps more. ( Ruth Beechick: A Home Start in Reading)
~ colouring in some more pictures
~ read from some of the Alphabet books
~ do some form drawing
~ do some counting with the manipulates
~ do some 'sight' words with our Montessori farm game
~ paint letters A-G
~check on the past posts about the Letters
A - still to do as I didn't write it out
B
C
D
E
F
G
for other ideas if needed.

Blessings,

Weekly Review 1st - 5th March

This week we had a very busy, interesting and intense week.
We actually managed a couple of field trips .

The first was to the Imaginarium which is the small science Museum in our town.
The children all really enjoyed the puzzle theme they had at the moment and racing the T-Rex to see if they could get eaten.
There is a Dinosaur Exhibition in May they are all keen to go to.
On Saturday we went to the Gowrie Park Rodeo and saw some close up views of the animals and the Rodeo competitors.

As to formal lessons the older children were very committed to finishing their work for the week.

The older children have really liked the change to GramarLand and Stories of the Saints.
They continue to keep up the pace with History of the World studies and The History of Science. The History of Science is a more involved study that they are going well with.
Science experiments continue to be well liked and they are recording thee well in their books. Rogan especially loves these.

Latin is going well and Eden is the only one who isn't really keen on it.
All the Art lessons are progressing well. I can see an improvement in all the children's work and they are all enjoying this, especially Saxon still.

Nature Journal entries are very involved and they are real works or art and observation.

Geography has continued to be a very popular topic and all the children have progressed with their learning .

Maths seems to be a slight challenge for Eden and Vellvin. Saxon and Autumn seem to be managing the Maths challenge at this stage.
Rogan's math is a challenge for me as I find I don't have a lot of explaining time and am hoping to get some Math U See for him to use. Which would allow me not to be involved in the explaining process.

Autumn loves her Logic and has completed about half of the book but Saxon isn't that keen and tends to leave it till last.

We still haven't fine tuned the Reading/quiet time and our Scribbling Squires and Orchard House Circle activities yet. Hopefully this week.

The little girls finished "G Week" in Along the Alphabet Path. We read a lot of stories again and spent time in a "Table Top Activity Day".
I am planning a review week this coming week of the Letter A-G with a lot of writing and using different methods to check how much they actually know.

Blessings,

Alphabet of Saints

Here is our complete listing of the Alphabet of Saints to use along with our Alphabet Path studies,
I used An Alphabet of Catholic Saints as a guide along with Jessica's and Blair's already painted Saints.
A is for St Agnes
B is for St Bernadette
C is for St Cecilia
D is for St Dominic
E is for St Elizabeth Ann Seton
F is for St Francis
G is for St George
H is for St Helen
I is for St Ignatius
J is for St Joseph
K is for St Kateri Tekawitha
L is for St Lucia
M is for St Martin de Porres
N is for St Nicholas
O is for St Odilia
P is for St Patrick
Q is for Queen of Heaven (Mary)
R is for St Rose
S is for St Sharbel
T is for St Therese
U is for St Ursula
Vis for St Vincent de Paul
W is for St Wenceslas
X is for St Francis Xavier
Y is for St Joseph Yuen
Z is for St Zita

The whole Alphabet of Saints
Back views of Saints
More back views of some Saints
Some side views of the Saints
Opposite side view

Blessings,

Weekly Review 22nd-26th February

Well as I am posting this on Thursday the main things I remember from last week is that we had to change a couple of resources.

The Introduction to Classical Studies just wasn't working for Saxon Velllvin and Eden. It was very time consuming and they really didn't like the Greek Myths stuff at all.

The other change was in Grammar. We had bought Simply Grammar as one of the first books for Homeschooling back in ...... This is the forth time I have tried it with the children and it just doesn't work for our children.
So we are now using until we finish it, Grammar Land by M. L. Nesbitt. This is more to the children's liking as well.

The younger ones are going well with the Alphabet Path but I still need to get their other work moving along better.

Rogan still struggles with independent work as he would rather be doing what the younger ones do or play still.

Autumn, Eden, Saxon and Vellvin as well as Rogan are really enjoying their Art work. I am especially pleased with Rogan's increased ability and not it only is Saxon improving in Sketching as well but he actually LOVES it. This is a dramatic change in attitude for Saxon and it goes to show that you just need to find the right type of Art work to begin with.

Geography, Science and History are still going really well. Math is difficult for some on some days and not on others. Poetry, spelling, Latin and Music seem to be going at a reasonable progress.

All in all we still need to keep on track with finishing work but the older ones especially are committed to their lessons each day and are progressing well.

Blessings,