What's better than doing school in your pajamas? Being Captain America and doing school in your pajamas.

Labels: homeschooling, Jonathan, Silly Boys

We've finished up two weeks of school and started on week three today. The boys enjoy doing school. We are all beginning to get used to this new way of life. We aren't used to being on a super strick schedule when it comes to our daily activities. So it has been a challenge.

I have had many questions about how Benjamin is doing with this transition and what he does while I do school. Benjamin wants to be right in there with us constantly. So, I've had to find quiet things for him to do in the school room or in his room (except he like to climb on his changing table). But in general he always finds something to dump in the floor or pull off the shelves. Last week, the bathroom door was left over accidently and I found him playing with the running water in the tub.

Here's few pictures from last week.






Sorting things - this was a picture of things with wheels (Henry's idea)




They sorted things based on their size. This is the pile of medium things.





Here's a pile of blue things.

Labels: homeschooling, Kindergarten

It's been a big day around our house. The boys started kindergarten! They have been counting down the days until we started homeschooling, and the day finally arrived!


The boys went on a treasure hunt.
Jonathan reading the clues to Daddy.



Henry OR Jonathan???






My big challenge right now..Benjamin

Labels: homeschooling, Kindergarten

It's time to clean out those junk drawers! I am collecting items to use with my "Hands-on" Math Curriculum for Kindergarten. If you are local and have any of the things listed below that you'd like to donate to the cause, I'd be very grateful. Don't worry about sorting things out, the boys can do that their first week of school.

beads of all kinds
shells
buttons
yarn
small rocks, seeds, stones, pine cones
bolts, nuts, washers
small lids, bottle caps
keys
small tiles
golf tees
empty spools
craft sticks
dice
game spinners
mismatched game pieces
clothes pins
old magazines and catalogs
old measuring cups and spoons
small boxes (jewerly size)
toothpicks
refrigerator magnets
small plastic animals/people

Labels: homeschooling