Gabi loses her teeth

Ok, so this happened a couple of weeks ago, but Gabriela lost her first tooth!  Well, she has actually lost both of her two bottom teeth now, the second one just a couple of days ago.

I'm a crappy blogger

Well, here it is two weeks later and I haven't blogged a thing!  I have these wonderful blog posts ideas that pop up in my head throughout the course of any given day, but the practicality of it is that I don't get to it.  I have my pre-set internet routines that consist of checking email, catching up on facebook, checking out certain blogs, and going to my mommy-friends board that I frequent.  Fact is, I am not giving blogging the online priority and time that I want to.  Another reason is that homeschooling is kicking my ever-loving booty, I am perservering, but I won't lie; its a lot. of. hard. work.  Along with my regular homemaking duties, I am swamped.  But I do want to continue, and I'm going to try to catch up on some old posts I've been meaning to get up.

Artwork

 

Speaking of art, I was very pleased with Gabriela' artwork this week,

 

 

 

as well as Annalise's

 

 

this past summer Annalise became quite proficient at drawing stick figures with faces and beautiful long locks like Rapunzel.  I have really enjoyed her smiling faces and I found this art viewing on our shelves during the past week.

 



Gabi dresses Annalise

 

Annalise has very much been into being neatly dressed and combed lately, and she came in pleased as punch because Gabriela had dressed and brushed her.  

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. 

 

Flicker Paint

 

 

 

 

 

Exploring Tactile Opposites

 

 

 Making words

 

 

Painting

 



 

Handwriting with sandpaper letters

 

 

 

Glueing and letter practice

 

 

 

 

New Montessori Materials!

We finally received the materials I ordered from adenamontessori.us/  last week!  The price was right but the delivery took a while.   They were pretty busy though, because I ordered right at the time everybody else was ordering materials as well.  Anyway, I'm really happy with the quality of the materials.  Gabriela has been eyeing the Golden Bead Material, but I have not been ready to present them yet.  I wanted to make sure that she had a firm grasp of the numbers 1-10, but she clearly does and I definitely think that we are ready.  We are getting started with them this upcoming week.

Golden Bead Material

 

 

 

Sandpaper numbers and letters

 



Date with Gabi

Now that Julienne is nearing 1, I'm finally at a point where I can get away for a couple of hours once she goes down for the night.  (She's finally accepting her dad at night for some comfort).  Gabriela has been requesting an outing with me, so we went to get some ice cream, then we browsed Michaels.  It was so nice to get out with just her!  The best part?  She brought our seashore book for a read-loud!