This week proved to be the beginning of a couple of really hard weeks for me in homeschooling. I don't know if I had just poured everything into reading and planning and the first month that I was already feeling burnt out, if the honeymoon period was over or if I just have really overextended myself in both my expectations and abilities. I presume it was a bit of it all. I have managed to keep up the basic phonics work, handwriting, bible study and a tiny bit of math. In Bible, the girls learned about Joseph and his coat and his time in Egypt. We went through the sounds of K, L, M, and N and did some word building. I introduced the Golden Bead Material to Gabriela. She really enjoyed manipulating it, but then wanted to play with it. I did not let her play with it for fun, and I'm a bit confused on how to proceed with this aspect of the montessori materials. The girls collected some leaves and did leaf rubbings and we threaded and colored pasta necklaces as well. I read some chapters from our Seashore book and the girls watched some more Salsa episodes.
Coloring Pasta Necklaces
Open-ended crafting, Annalise put that little triangle together on her own
Gabriela playing with the Golden Bead Material
Annalise word building. She begs to do it like her sister. It requires a lot of active involvement on my part but she is definitely learning her phonics and well on her way to reading.
Number writing practice with sandpaper numbers. The use of sandpaper numbers and letters has really been fruitful for Gabriela's penmanship learning.
Julienne doing a litte practical life bottle opening practice (no she hasn't mastered it, yet!)
I took some pictures on our weekly library outing
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