Week 1, Day 1

Here is what we did today:

Alexandra played this game. Since it was easy for her, I decided to mix a few puzzle sets of logic to make it harder. It was not really. Not for her. She has been making puzzles everyday lately and constantly asks for more.



We read two books, one in French:



One in English:



And finally, she played this game card, her favorite. She always says how good she is, lol.



Together, we watched and practiced our sign language:



We will be watching this one every morning this week. I am hoping that by Friday, the new signs will be learned. So far, so good though because some of those signs were learned from the Baby Signing Time dvds.


Catherine:

Catherine has done so well today, she really amazed me. Last year, she did not like doing math that much. So, we find ourselves still working on the second grade math books. That is fine, I do not believe in forcing kids to learn when they are not ready. I was proven right in this way of thinking because every math page we did earlier, Catherine understood right away. She did much more than I had planned. So, she did *Numbers to 1000*, exercises 1-7. She read her English book:



I did not realise that I had not printed the Explode the Book 5 so no English today. I cannot print it now, the computer that our homeschool stuff is on is not working properly, I need to wait for Patrick.

In French, I decided to have her redo the entire book of Bled, CP/CE. I feel like an entire review is necessary. French is not her favorite subject, it is so darn hard to learn compared to English. Because we homeschool, I can permit myself to have her redo that book, just to make sure that she knows all the rules and such. It worked really well too, she did two lessons plus we had a spelling test and she did amzing, again. This is really the right thing to do. We are in no rush to get the second book done so why not? Btw, the first book is for two years of French. It should get done by end of October.



She read this book again (yes, again!):



Zachary:

Zachary has to finish two activity books before moving on to the others. He did a few pages of Explode the Code C, Handwriting Without Tears and Singapore Math 1B. NOthing for French right now, I still have books in boxes here.

William is doing book 2 of 7 in French (Trousse the Dépannage en Lecture). He loves those, much more than the Les Sons series but that lat one is the one teaching him to read. He also did a few pages of Singapore Math and HWT. No Explode the Code for him either today.

I cannot wait for all our boxes to be emptied and all our books to be at the right place on our new (future) shelves.