Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Update...

Wow! Can't believe it's been so long since I've updated this!! We have been BUSY, like most people this time of year, but have been having a terrific time learning! :)

This December we combined our writing, music, and art with a Christmas unit, using all 5 senses. It was called our 'Sensational Christmas unit'... we finished it yesterday, and it was GREAT! Kendyl wrote & illustrated a book, using the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See, as a model. It is called, Baby Jesus, Baby Jesus. It goes through the 5 senses, asking what he sees, hears, tastes, feels, & smells while in the stable :) It is very cute.

Math: Kendyl now has her double addition facts memorized through 9+9 and is getting much quicker at adding any single digit problem. She can now count to 110 by 1's & 10's, 30 by 5's, 20 by 2's, backwards from 20 by 1's, and backward by 10's from 100 to 10.

We have been working on counting money. She can now count pennies and dimes both separately and together :)

She can tell time to the hour and sets her little clock throughout the day and rings a bell saying, "it's 9:00 and all is well" as she sets her clock to match our digital one :)

She has also learned whole & half, complex patterns, ordinal numbers through 10th and more things I can't think of right now. :)

Reading: She is getting more fluent in her reading all the time. It is fun to listen to her read...she really tries to put emotion into it and read it as if it was really happening. :) She is learning many new ending sounds (ly, lk, nk, ed, ing, etc.) and really expanding the books that she can read by herself! It was so exciting the first time she read Green Eggs and Ham all by herself! :)

Spelling: We continue to work on spelling...but usually in the form of a game :) She's starting to remember some of the complex word spellings :)

Writing: Her writing is probably what she struggles with the most... So, we try not to stress about this and not do too much writing. The writing that we do, is in the form of fun things, like writing books, cards, notes, etc. I'll play games with her, like pictionary...she'll have to write the word that I draw, etc. ...for practicing writing numbers, we'll play 'store' and she'll make fake money, in which she needs to write the value on the money, ect. We do use some 'worksheet' writing too, but not much, as this REALLY frustrates her. Looking back to the begining of the year, she has REALLY come a long way on her writing though. Instead of quantity, we really focus on quality of the writing and I have her correct the mistakes she's made in the letters... keeping it positive of course :)

Social Studies/Geography, etc.: We have only recieved 1 flat kendyl back so far...but we learned about her journey, made a scrapbook page, and had fun with it... looking forward to learning about more places as the flat kendyl's come back home! :)

Music: She LOVES to sing and I've been trying to work with her on really staying in tune lately. She is terrific at staying on beat :) We have used water flutes and some other instruments too :)

DANCE: Kendyl had her first dance recital this week. WOW, that was fun! She LOVED it and as soon as she found her teacher after the performance, she asked if she could have a solo for the next recital! :)

SNOW: We've all had fun in the snow already this winter... so much fun! :) Kids are looking forward to many more times outside in the winter wonderland! :)

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