Category Archives: Vocabulary

Word end-ings

Today we were reading the first 9 pages of Trouble at the Bridge and I realized what a hard time he was having with common endings and letter groups in the middle of words. Since I taught him phonics and not sight words, it is a bit more difficult for him to understand the whole [...]

Alphabet Review

Done with minimal help from me: AppleBeesCatDeerEarFurGoHatI Love youJugKiteLuigiMarioNewOpen PlaneQuiet TimeRatStarTubeUmbrellaVCRWhatX (box/fox)YouZoo

Books: The Best Vacation & Whining

We just read The Best Vacation Ever by Stuart J. Murphy and A Children’s Book about Whining by Joy Berry. I think I will continue in the series of books that are supposed to help the child build a better character. I read that one to him, but he helped me read the book about [...]

More reading & the fruits of the spirit

Today he decided to do more words. I cannot stop this kid! He is loving learning on his little chalkboard easel. We did a number of words. He also remembered that some words have a long A sound because they end in E. The two words he did today for that were cake and cage. [...]

10 pages in 3 minutes

Today was a pretty okay day for learning. I let his father take over the Math lesson to give me a break, and give him a feel for what I go through nearly every day! That took an hour, even with his father right next to him helping. The kid just DOESN’T want to do [...]

Math, Phonics, Reading & more

Today we got him his second library card. When he was younger, he had one for the local library where we lived. He would never remember getting it, since he was so small. Now, he is excited to be able to take 4 books from the library every 2 weeks. He picked out some really [...]

The Sun and the Son

Today we are talking about S words and the science of the Sun. There are some good pages on EnchantedLearning.com for easy explanations of how the sun works, where it is in our solar system, and whatnot. We are also talking about the Son of God and how He is a lamp to our feet [...]

Googly eyes and sight words

When we went to Walmart, I decided to pick up a few things for the Kid. I was able to get him some googly eyes, foam stars, and post it note sight words. Did you know that Post It makes educational tools? I didn’t, till now. Here is what happened with the googly eyes and [...]

Telling stories: The Bean

Taz decided to illustrate a story and then tell me the story. First, he arranged crayons in the shape of a flower. Then he drew a bean on his magnadoodle. Taz: Look at what I drew! Me: Wow great picture…what is it? Taz: It’s a bean. Me: A bean, really? Taz: Yes. It is a [...]

Summer activity

We have been doing a lot of workbook activities of late. He has been really excelling at getting things done. He is the initiator and begs to do his books nearly daily. We have worked on his penmanship, spelling, letter recognition, reading, simple math, and artsy things. We made insects out of pipe cleaners. He [...]