Adapting Education
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Germinating
We have already germinated and planted green beans or string beans & we discussed various things from parts of the plant to life cycles. Recently we started talking about the kinds of things we eat. Learning that peas were actually seeds was interesting, especially to Maggie. Prior to this activity, Maggie had peas for dinner…
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Bird Bingo
We haven’t studied the animal kingdom yet, but we’ve discussed it in brief. I’ve introduced the words mammal, reptile, etc. both when asked about a certain animal & just spontaneously to plant a seed for some lesson later. But we do study all types of living things. We just are focusing more on living, non-living,…
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Self care fun
The girls and I took some time to soak our feet. After soaking the girls had their nails and toes painted. Maggie & Liky picked their own colors. I was very impressed with Lily’s ability to sit still in a chair with her feet in a pot of water for so long. She had…
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The Pink Series
Lily & Maggie work on matching picture to word & spelling & writing skills.
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Handwriting without tears- Mat Man
L What you see above is a very boring picture of the floor. On it are 2 oversized pieces of draft paper, a CD player, laminated letter cards (used with wooden letters), and a magnetic board that holds up the magnetic pieces to make letters with the same laminated cards, but you can stick it…
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Pink tower
This is a partial post off my last one. Lily above is building the pink tower. She is building it differently now. I am still working with her on the handling of the materials. She doesn’t bang the blocks together but they could be placed with more care. So I’ll model more of that. The…
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