Learning Together: Weekly Review Sept. 10-14

This, only our 3rd week of homeschool, I have to admit I felt a little tired. I had gone full speed the first two weeks and I was already feeling it! Mainly my montessori activities suffered, but we got through a fair bit of schoolwork We did daily phonics, studied the Story of Noah and the Ark, which culminated nicely and unexpectadly with the art class at St. Ann's at the end of the week. We practiced pouring and explored tactile opposites. I went over some basic addition with the number rods and explored evens and odds. I've come to realize that Gabriela likes worksheets a whole lot more than I was planning on using them, but I've been letting her work through some workbooks, and she really enjoys that. Finally, we discovered SALSA episodes thanks to a friend. There is an accompanying curriculum that I am going to start, but last week the whole Salsa thing translated into a whole lot of watching that I need to curb this week coming up and actually make lessons out of. We did a fair bit of painting and read more in our history book and a lovely book on Abraham Lincoln. We also continued reading stories in our seashore book. That culminates nicely into this weekend because we came to the coast to visit our family.