Our recent topics of interest are:

telling time

dinosaurs

volcanoes

subtraction

faries and unicorns

Colonial America

Right now DD5 is digging plastic dinosaur bones out of a chunk of what looks like brick. It's really messy and a lot of fun. Once she gets all the pieces out and cleaned off, we will try to assemble them into a T-Rex skeleton.

Yesterday she asked if her next unit after the dinosaurs could be volcanoes, so that should be fun too.

She got a watch and is very into telling time. She has mastered the hour and half-hour.

We have been reading the Felicity American Girl books and DD is intrigued with life during the colonial time. I had the Felicity craft and cook books from when I was teaching, so we are going to do some of that too.

We continue with the math and phonics lessons, although not at the pace we should be. She knows all the sounds and lowercase forms of all the letters and can read words with consonant blends. She has also started writing very simple sentences. In math, she has started and really likes subtraction. We also started fractions, and she got the concept of half much more quickly than I thought she might.

I need to be:

better about consistency with the math and phonics. She likes them, they are important, and I am just being a slacker.

documenting more consistently for her portfolio. I have to use it to prove mastery of the concepts I put in my curriculum document with the state.

Anyone else wanna chime in?

-Jo