Homeschool15: Time

Welcome to a new year of homeschool! We reset in January, so it is back to the beginning, but moving on. I love starting a new year of learning with the kids and planning with all the brand new resources and activities that we get to do. 

Degen is starting Kindergarten (which will be official in the fall of this year). We started the year wrapping up our study of the alphabet with concentration on letter formation and phonics. He is keeping a 'journal' this year with a focus on vocabulary, letter recognition & formation and sight words. He feels like a big boy when he gets to write in his own notebook. He will continue to practice his numbers while incorporating more math skills such as time, fractions and measurement. He has also started French with a focus on basic conversation (eg. "Hello. How are you?") and vocabulary.

A French lesson for Degen.

Kyrie is starting third grade for homeschool (which she will begin officially this fall). This year, she will have more in-depth language arts assignments with a focus on reading & comprehension and writing. She has mastered her addition & subtraction facts and is now moving onto multiplication. She will continue practicing multi-digit addition & subtraction with regrouping/renaming skills, as well as problem solving and logic. This year instead of a daily journal, Kyrie will be responsible for working on a thematic project for each unit. She can choose from 5 different projects that include poems, posters, papers and other forms of presentation. She is wrapping up her study of the U.S. states and will review the regions before beginning a study of different countries around the world. 

From a lesson about the seasons.

Kyrie's unit paper: an opinion piece about holidays.

These are a few photos of the kids "after-school." We found a brand new fort building set at a resale shop that the kids enjoy. Darren helped them build the above fort, which they layered with blankets to make a cozy place to play and watch movies. The cats enjoyed it, too, as you can see. Degen worked on 'mining' for gems (a Christmas present from Santa... which is SO very messy and Santa should have known better, but Degen loved it). He has also been working on Lego kits, which he mostly does independently.