Lessons Learned

Adapting Education

What does a bird say?

Birds are a thing of interest right now. I’ve been slowly introducing bird books to the girls, beginning with thumbing through them asking which birds they liked. I’d have a map nearby (unless the book included it) and point to the whereabouts of the birds chosen and descriptions of each. We’ve moved on to games…
Reading sentences, Association Method

So I’m prepping the reading portion of the girls association method binders but I’m handwriting & stapling it together (making copies) instead of adding it to the phonene/words learned. It’s more traditional this way & feels more like book plus the kids can carry it around easier. The sentences written on the board are…
Teen Board & Ten Board

We haven’t used the teen & ten boards yet. The kids have gotten down the decimal system to a certain extent of memorization & we’ve done simple addition with check board beads & problems relating just recently practical math problems all symbolic. Just today maggie asked me what a symbol was in math, the greater…
Painting & Spelling

The girls showed an interest in painting last week. They didn’t just paint but carefully painted. So I took out the water colors. There are many steps to painting with water colors. I don’t think I ever really realized how many. Lily used to have a hard time following the pattern of painting with them.…
Metal insets

I re arranged the shelves last night though I failed to photograph them as of yet. Mostly Sensorial and a little bit of math with the teen board. Also available are the metal insets. Maggie is familiar with these but has begun to take her time using them now. She shaded in shapes today but…
Beginning Letter Sounds

Above pictured is Lily & Maggie working on beginning letter sounds of words. I like these cards because they have pictures to associate the word with so the focus is more on the missing sound versus reading the entire word right off. It gives the child time to learn without too much confrontation.