Tuesday November 18, 2008

Today was a great day! In fact it was pretty perfect! The day started out so well with me going to the gym early and coming home showered and ready to get started! Niyi went to the gym with Kunle and left a peaceful house for a few hours for us to get started! It makes all the difference!

Unit Study: Today we started a new unit from Homeschool Share. A literature unit based on the book Little Oh. We read the story and some books about Japan. We discussed traditional dress, and learned that Mount Aso is the largest Volcano in Japan. We used google maps to find photographs of it and really enjoyed looking at them. We continued working on our map skills, finding Japan and reviewing all the other places we have traveled so far this school year!
after school this afternoon we played Othello and Rummy for a while and I have promised Lola I will teach her Cribbage soon! Wish me luck with that one!

Lola: Today she was able to get most of her independent work done pretty quickly with no interruptions. She did her devotional and prayer journal, math, handwriting, French, math drill early. Then we were able to get her spelling done and she decided to use these words as practice for her cursive handwriting. We then made some Pumpkin Muffins together and discuss how gluten is developed in flour with kneading and why we don't want to develop it in muffins and cakes! I was happy to note that Lola was able to tell me lots of things we learnt last week about Korea especially that Korea is a Peninsula and how that is different from Japan (an island).

Tayo: Toady Tayo and I spent a long time focusing on her math (+9's) and she has begun to get it. She spent a while paying with the blocks and in her own way (telling a story all about how Mr 9 wants to be 10 and how his friends were helping him - in true Tayo style!) She asked me to help her draw an Elephant so we had fun doing that! Tayo is doing well with her Word box and has almost 20 words of her choosing in there right now, she enjoys being able to read words and is now beginning to sound them out a little- she might be ready to try RME again soon. Tayo and I began a science experiment from my new science book to see what foods ants like best but we are not sure that it will work as there don't seem to be many ants around right now with it being so cold! She was happy to see quite few bug experiments and projects in this book so I think we'll be trying them all out soon! We will start her any lapbook tomorrow. We read a section of an ant book today and will continue over the next few weeks.