We’ve been slogging through the winter months lately. I never thought I had a preference for any particular season until I was left inside with a young child for months on end. Winter definitely has a different feel with a 5 year old! But our school time keeps us busy and DJ is making steady progress. We did the next chapter in Building Foundations of Scientific Understanding during January. This one was titled “Concepts of Energy: Making Things Go” and…
As the weeks pass by, we’ve been making steady progress with DJ’s school work. Not much new to highlight in a post, but building slowly on what he already knows. As DJ has been working through the Addition Tables booklet I could tell that he was rather frustrated in his inability to write several of his numbers well. So we’ve been practicing writing them to boost his confidence. This photo is a candid shot of his glee at how well…
It has occurred to me with all of our travels that I haven’t written much about DJ’s math work. When we first started the sequence, it felt very linear – one activity had to be mastered before the next would make sense. But this year I feel like his math has splintered into a number of parallel activities. The Tens Board was work we did last year that DJ fought against but sort of completed. I’m finding though after our…
Well, it’s unofficially official – DJ has started pre-kindergarten. Although he is beginning his third year of Montessori at home and he will be 5 years old in just over a month, with a November birthday he would not be able to start public school Kindergarten until next year. I’m somewhat hesitant about assigning grade level since homeschool can be so fluid, but I love the “first day of school” pictures each year. DJ loves all things math, so when we…