Lessons Learned

Adapting Education

October post

We have been very busy working on the new 4th grade year so I have failed to do many posts–being up late at night preparing new lessons and materials! Before we started on our new level 4 materials we worked often with writing short stories and studies included learning how to write short stories, paragraphs…
Work in July

Some work in July will be in this post. I will work harder in the future to add more to the website versus my ledger books as a hard copy. Work we have accomplished has revolved around spelling and phonemes. We’ve been reviewing basic skills in workbooks and including our Lifepac studies as extra work…
A well overdue post

Seems as though this virus we are all experiencing has slowed down the process of my documenting the activity I have been doing with the girls. It has not been as structured as our usual routine as we have had to change things around a bit in other areas of our lives. But we are…
Math and English

The last of our focus has been on word study, phonics and reading comprehension. We’ve been working on lots of reading material where stories and paragraphs are read of different types of reading material and then questions are answered afterwards to ensure comprehension of what is being read. I find that breaking down stories has…
Math and Money Etc.

The girls have been finishing up their green series language series in Montessori and working on their new computers online with Lexia Learning for Language. We’ve been working on handwriting skills in our notebooks for math in areas such as addition and subtraction, multiplication and division. We’ve combined the green series language with our spelling…
This year and some from last….

I’ll start with a few things from last year that I can’t remember if I’ve recorded yet as the holidays took up most of my posting time in the evenings so everything remained handwritten. The end of last year was a major focus on math and short stories. We have been working on handwriting for…