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Change is inevitable…

After 4 weeks of Sonlight Lanague Arts, I knew I needed to quickly make a change. I did quite a bit of research – and weighing up what I needed, included what my budget could afford, I decided on the Primary Arts of Language Writing.

I only replaced the creative writing section of Sonlight LA. [...]

FischerTip

One of the staples in our school room is FischerTips. Elijah has always enjoyed cutting and just messing around. I got alot of flowers that he made. I bought a new box which included the brick makers so Elijah was excited about trying something new.it also included 6000 Tips. Hopefully going to last a long [...]

Preschool with Elijah

 

Currently using the Horizons Preschool curriculum. One of the week activities most weeks are bible numbers. For the first time Elijah expanded in his drawing. Here he really took to the bible story and drew scenery with almost floored me. Since then his drawing has really taken off.

Music and sing-along are featured [...]

Fun with Nature

I really had to think about this post. Have we done anything to fit in with the Nature theme? I recalled we did do something:

ANT FARMING!

We captured our ants using banana. Successfully managed to get the busy little bugs  to create some tunnels for about two weeks. But from there we failed, [...]

Preschool June 2011

I just realised how long ago I posted a preschool post.

We are still using Horizons Preschool program. While looking around at our K curriculum for next year (My obvious choice is Sonlight K with MUS Primer for Math) I started looking at samples for math and writing and realised our Preschool curriculum is [...]

Preschool

Preschool will be finishing up for our grade 000 year. We are awaiting the arrival of our new addition to the family and while I would love the have the energy to run around with the kids – our schooling is mainly consisting of reading and similar activities.

For this week’s post I wanted [...]

Preschool 2011

Should I maybe be welcoming myself back to blogging about preschool?Life has been busy but although no posts were about – Preschool did take place!

Elijah is definitely growing up. Becoming more confident in his capabilities and showing interest in so many new things!

Some of the activities we have been taking up:

Our [...]

Preschool

This post is what we did over the last two weeks that were caught on camera. I am really enjoying the workbox system and we are having fun.

Sticking birdseed onto a ‘b’ stencil sheet.

Taking a step back in puzzle building. Elijah could choose which one he wanted to build. A 12pc [...]

Preschool

This post is actually a week late. Preschool was interrupted this week due to having a sick week. Elijah is much better so I am sure by the end of next week there will be lots of photos to share (if Mommy remembers)

We are still continuing with our Shape of the day. There are [...]

That crazy thing called preschool

The camera is not always out and handy so not all our activities are shown. We seem to take between 40-90 minutes a day to complete school. Depending on How much Jessica wants to join in. Our workbox system seems to really be working for us this time. I have the boxes planned a week [...]