Lessons Learned

Adapting Education

The holiday weekend

So daddy was home for quite a few days on the holiday week through New Years so this set us off track a bit. But it was fun to include him in the activities. Most work on the shelves revolved around math, counting, some language (DuBard), colors….after a day or so I changed it…
Math Friday

Daddy is home on vacation for the holidays so we did little work but important work today. Maggie bound the hundred board (which she is not ready for) but I wanted her to see what a hundred squares looked like before we started the process of beads. Lily did a great job with the number…
Wednesday’s work

Today did not go over as well as yesterday for Lily. HowevervMaggie was satisfied with her materials. Maggie additionally worked on writing her babe today on dotted line sheets I prepared. We started out fine as Lily chose the bead tray with patterns. She sat on the floor & I helped her with her mat.…
Shelf work Day 2

The picture above represents work Maggie did with shape matching today. She is remembering the names of shapes. Prism. Ovaloid. The picture below is of the Slit game that Lily was not interested in this particular day. It has been great helping Maggie with her number recognition skills ok. So the first day of…
Shapes & Computer work

Today was my first day that I presented the shelves to the kiddos as a workspace. I took off the toys and added trays dedicated to work only. Mostly simple sensory items to start with & everything unplanned. Random picked activities. Chosen activities by Maggie were the shapes with matching cards. Additionally she matched object…
Sorting box intro

Today was our first day with the sorting box. It’s a wooden box with slits to drop in tiles pertaining to color, shapes (although not much shapes), and counting. Counting is with both symbols & counting the objects. Match symbol to counting pairs (picture) or counted objects to objects. Lily was disinterested during the intro.…