DJ did some practical life work in the yard with his dad recently. It was hot, hard, dry work… but… It was SO worth the effort! Now this is the way to do summer. And just in time too as we’re entering a two week heat wave in our region. And it’s contributing to an increase in social engagements too. He also did some art work this week. I’ve been really impressed with his skill with scissors lately. Before discovering…
I’ve been on furlough from homeschooling the past couple of weeks mostly because I was a bit burned out and looking forward to the summer. But there is no stopping DJ. He’s like the Energizer Bunny, if anyone recognizes that reference. As mentioned in recent posts DJ has been crazy about math lately. Last week, he selected the Pink Tower for the first time in a long time so he could count the number of cubes. As he was putting…
DJ is moving slowly through the early Golden Bead work. This involves matching the large number cards to the corresponding cubes, squares, tens and units. He enjoys this work but it is challenging for him so we are taking it very slow. Today we set up number cards in 4 rows on one side of the room and then 9 of each cube, square, tens and units in rows on the other side. Then we played a game where I…
DJ’s grandpa Dennis has signed him up for the subscription service from Brainy Kits. We received the third set last week and it is their best one yet, by far. Although I might be a little biased because I needed to be putting together a study on life cycles but I was dragging my feet as I wasn’t really sure where to start. Brainy Kits solved that for me! The kit included: -Life Cycle charts for: -Plant -Ant…