Epiphany Prep School

July 19

2010-07-19T12:08:00.000-07:00

Juliet - has only two more lessons in LOF Fractions to go! I don't know if she is learning more than with TT, but she seems to enjoy it more. One lesson in this today. Re-took spelling test in Apples and Pears - she is almost done with book one in this also. Only one wrong so she gets to move on! Funny how it was a different one wrong than all her errors last week. Watching One Night With the King (Biblical story of Esther) with Maggie. (ETA: also looked over Maggies CLAA Catechism lesson. We are trying to see if that way of learning --with much *gulp* memorization -- will work for her)

Maggie - worked on CLAA lessons (Catechism 1 lesson 2, Grammar 1 lesson 1). Drew pictures and created a game with them with her sisters. Finished Religion 4 for Young Catholics (I feel like I've said this twice already but I'm too lazy to check, lol!). Gymnastics class

Grace - reading These Are Our Neighbors, Gymnastics Class, read one week's worth in Religion 1 FYC.

Leah - Did two pages in her Kindergarten Workbook, gymnastics class, general merriment. :)

July 12-14

2010-07-14T13:03:00.000-07:00

-Juliet: 1 lesson of Apples and Pears, 15 sentence dictations, one spelling test. Need more work on this unit! Still struggling with ea vs. ee or e_e and when to use wh and wr vs. w or r. Anything where there really is no hard and fast rule. I try to "pronounce for spelling" - emphasizing my round lips when saying "wrong" for example...which helps, at least during tests!

Read over Maggie's CLAA work. Watched several videos on Khan Academy, particularly the brain teasers. She loves that stuff.

Continuing to work through Key to Fractions book 1 and LOF Fractions. Several pages of each.

Helped Jeffrey at Gymnastics

-Maggie: Read through lesson 1 of Catechism 1 from CLAA and passed the test after 2 attempts. Studied the Grammar 1 lesson 1. Attempted lesson 2 exam of Catechism 1 and needs another day of practice ( a few wrong)

1 lesson in TT5, watched all the Arithmetic: Division videos on Khan Academy and then I let her loose watching anything she wanted. Watched some brain teasers with Juliet among others (I don't know what, they all looked "safe")

Finished her English 4 for Young Catholics book. Read from her Religion 4 FYC. I think she may be almost done.

Gymnastics class.

- Grace: 3 lessons in TT3. Read 3 weeks worth of Religion 1 FYC with her. Finished the American Girl's Kirsten collection (maybe that was last week?) More Liberty's Kids!

Gymnastics class.

July 9

2010-07-14T12:47:00.000-07:00

-more mad libs, more Liberty's kids! (my kids are nothing if not obsessed with stuff)

-Juliet: 1 lesson LOF Fractions, several pages Key to Fractions bk 1 (just introduced these to her today - she is relieved to have some easy practice)

-Maggie - worked on one of her stories on Word, 1 chapter Religion 4,

-Grace - one lesson of TT3, reading through Kirsten's Story Collection (American Girls)

July 8

2010-07-08T13:56:00.000-07:00

-Mad libs with everyone

-time in the sprinkler (PE!), Maggie studying book of cooperative games from different countries/cultures and teaching us (capture the flag, etc)

-Juliet read almost all of Homeless Bird

-Maggie did 1 lesson of TT5, Grace did TT3

-Maggie read all of Gandhi from SL5

MORE Liberty's Kids. I think they have it memorized by now. The 2yo runs around the house yelling, "The Hessians are coming, the Hessians are coming!" LOL

July 7

2010-07-07T13:26:00.000-07:00

When did July happen??

Today we read two chapters of Theresa of Calcutta and a few more pages in National Geographic's India about the Himalayas and the rivers that flow from them, particularly the Ganges.

Math:
We did buy TT3 for Grace and she did two lessons today.
One lesson in LOF Fractions for Juliet
15 minutes on Arcademic Skill Builders for Maggie

Lesson 59 in Apples and Pears Spelling for Juliet

More Liberty's Kids watching, but that is neither here nor there. ;-)

June 28: India Here We Come

2010-06-28T11:31:00.001-07:00

Started our new India Unit and everyone is excited.

- Showed everyone the two pages from Children Like Me about children from India and compared the two
- showed India on map in DK My First Atlas book and indicated major points of interest - New Delhi, Mubai, Ganges River, Himalayas, surrounding countries and oceans/seas
-Read first few pages of National Geographic's Countries of the World: India about climate
-read first chapter of Teresa of Calcutta by D. Jeanene Watson
-talked about Hinduism (spurred on by Children Like me) and Maggie read much of This is My Faith: Hinduism
-talked about what Catholic Church teaches re: baptism and those who die w/o it

-Juliet did two lessons in Apples and Pears Spelling (ugh, difficult after a break) and 1/2 hour of Life of Fred Fractions

-Grace and Leah watched Leap Frog Letter Factory with Jeffrey

-Grace attempted more of Teaching Textbooks 4 but it is getting too difficult - we'll buy TT3. :)

Oct 1

2009-10-01T05:10:00.000-07:00

Our chalkboard for the feast of St. Therese, the Little Flower

If you can't see it, the prayer on there is one of the easier, traditional novena prayers to St. Therese:

O Little Therese of the Child Jesus,
Please pick a rose for me
From the heavenly gardens
And send it to me
As a message of love.

O little flower of Jesus,
Ask God today to grant the favors
I now place with confidence
In your hands.

(Mention your specific requests)

St. Therese,
help me to always believe,
As you did,
In God's great love for me,
So that I might imitate your
"Little Way" each day. Amen

We are also learning All Creatures of Our God and King during our (sporadic) circle times. At least the kids can hear me sing it all day when we *don't* have circle time, as it's quite stuck in my head. There could be worse things to have stuck in one's head, huh? I had no idea the lyrics were based on St. Francis of Assisi's words -- makes it even more appropriate to sing this week.

This is just the icing on our "average" days...still trying to learn what I'm doing, find some rhythm, deal with some mental hangups (not really school related)' and a busy dh... so the fun bloggable *extras* are minimal. Well, at least the ones I take time to take a picture of, anyway, lol.

Breaking in our new chalkboard: Welcome Autumn!

2009-09-22T05:57:00.000-07:00

I apologize for the poor photo quality - our dining room does not get good sun in the morning and the flash made a nasty glare... I wish I could remember where I got the poem to give credit! (which is why I'm not typing it in here)

Our first Waldorf-y chalkboard! :) I think I need some drawing classes. ;-)

Shake ups...

2009-08-16T14:45:00.000-07:00

Maggie and I have decided to drop her Oak Meadow curriculum in favor of mostly workbooks. Long story (which I probably don't adequately cover in that link either. So right now she has Spectrum workbooks for both language arts and writing and Teaching Textbooks for math (which she was doing before dropping OM).

So I'm trying to think hard on what to do for science and history with her. Recent tragedies are making it hard for me to think, however, about anything, or deal with our own personal (albeit less tragic) family difficulties.

Juliet is pretty much up to date with her OM (week 5.5 or 6). I'm a little behind with Grace, but it is so easy for her, she will catch up. An upcoming vacation is most likely cancelled, so maybe we'll have that time work.

Nothing really interesting to share as we've just been plugging away. Hopefully soon I'll be adding fun stuff.

FYI

2009-07-28T08:59:00.000-07:00

I've changed the girls' blog pseudonyms for a variety of reasons.

Rose is now Juliet.
Skye is Maggie.
Jane is Grace.
Batty is Leah.

Jeffrey is still Jeffrey!

I simply asked the girls what names they would like to be called. Rose said "Juliet" and I liked it so much that I'm not letting her change it, even though she said, "I was just kidding! It's the only other literary character I could think of!" besides Anne of Green Gables and Nancy Drew which she said no to. :-)

They'll be on the sidebar for future reference.

July 28

2009-07-28T08:40:00.001-07:00

The last few weeks we have pretty much just stuck to the separate Oak Meadow Schedules. Among other things, Juliet studied ancient Egypt and made a Senet game, Maggie finished a model landscape of our house/yard and also wrote a little paper about Stuart Little, and Grace listened to fairy tales, worked on her handwriting of letters, and learned math concepts with the gnumber gnomes.

I'm tired this week and feeling down - since we had to take yesterday off for a dentist appointment and subsequent picnic with friends, I'm taking the rest of the week off to get caught up with house stuff. Hey, it's summer. Since we are technically three weeks "ahead" - I'm going to run with that and not push myself or the kids. I have seen them blossom creatively in doing their own educational things in the past few days.

Juliet sat down with Grace and Leah and labeled our Sonlight markable map with all the states.

Juliet and Maggie started a family olympics with categories like, "who can stand on one foot the longest," "who can whistle the longest," "who can run the longest without passing out." LOL

They all helped me garden and we talked about the soil, rocks, insects, worms, and flowers. We dug up bulbs that were in the garden (accidentally at first) and they decided to keep them and plant them somewhere else as their own project.

Maggie continues to work on her short stories and character development, writing all sorts of charts, etc.

Grace is reading through her children's bible on her own.

I find it interesting that they were really floundering until I forced some school work on them. But now they are not ONLY doing that work, they are taking some free time to be creative and fun. When we were just "off", they seemed lazy, bored, and were angry and picking on each other. I like this better. Hopefully I can find a good middle ground.

July 9 2009

2009-07-09T14:49:00.000-07:00

Had a library visit today. My favorite librarian chided me for only getting 39 books out. I swear our rolling cart was full! LOL I got out a few books for me that were fat, so that took up a lot of cart room. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

A little less got done than usual, although we all seemed to be busy.

Rose - started writing a little Q & A from the perspective of a "cave woman." She did a lesson in TT6 and was very excited that it was on something new (a little geometry) and not the same ol' fractions/decimals/percents that have been plaguing her for months. We got a neat book out of the library called Drawing In Color by Kathryn Temple and she promptly sat down and sketched a great apple. She amazes me!

Skye-library visit, some work on her short stories (these are just stories that she is always writing, usually very American Girl-esque), we did more more tonal drawing instruction (which I believe is just using one color, but darker or lighter, to show the shape of something) and she drew an apple from many different perspectives. This was also science - we examined and cut it and discussed the geometry of it, etc. Skye did 1 or 2 lessons in TT4.

Jane - library visit, reading, TT4, and the rest of the day was playing and trying to clean her room!

The little ones watched a new Signing Time we got from the library, and the older ones watched a Mr. Wizard DVD and a Kit (American Girl) movie. At least I think it was Kit...

Some Week 1 Photos

2009-07-07T18:12:00.000-07:00

Our future Gnumber Gnomes drying. I tried attatching the felt for their robes with glitter glue, but it turns out our glitter glue is more like glitter slime. So I decided to smear the glitter slime all over the front and just glue (when I buy some more!) the felt on to the back and for a hat. My girls like sparkly:

They're drying next to the apples we used for our taste test!

Skye's main lesson book.
Our house from the sidewalk:

And our backyard from the house:

Here's the real thing:

Some things from Rose's MLB:
Spelling words. We're not actually using OM as her spelling curriculum - i.e. I'm not going to test her on these. She's not *there* yet. But I thought it couldn't hurt for her to copy them and make sentences.

Her map of Africa and Europe:

I need to teach her the art of gentle background shading. :)

That's all for now, I'll try to share some of Jane's first grade work next time.

July 7, 2009

2009-07-07T13:50:00.000-07:00

Jane -
LA: wrote capital and lowercase A's in main lesson book after listening to Mrs. Applebee story from Serendipity. Listened to me read book about apples (Apples Here! by Will Hubbell). She read along with me

Math: 1 lesson from TT 4, listened to first story of Gnumber Gnomes and we talked about the four processes + - x / . Illustrated roman numerals to 6

Science: talked about how apples form using book above. Ate four different kinds of apples and discussed - braeburn, cripps pink, golden delicious, and cameo. I had never heard of two of them! We had a blindfolded guessing game.

Art - illustrations in main lesson book
Music - sang hymn we are working on this week (Let All Things Now Living) and circle time rhymes/fingerplays. She particularly liked the clapping game Pease Porridge Hot

Skye-
Social Studies - sketch of our lot from different perspective
Math - 1 lesson in TT4
LA - worked on her short stories
Science - apple discussion/taste above
Music - sang hymn with Jane
Art - sketch in main lesson book for SS

Rose-
Social Studies - read about prehistoric man and wrote short paper about the discovery of fire
Math - hopefully will get to that later! She did listen in on gnumber gnomes and helped make some games for the little ones.
LA - short paper on fire for SS, pleasure reading
Science - apple work above
Music - hymn singing

ETA: Oh goodness I'm in a time warp, I just noticed I titled this post JUNE 7th. :-P

July 6, 2009

2009-07-06T09:09:00.000-07:00

Well, we're in High Summer here as far as heat and discomfort are concerned, so our attention is shifting back to our studies.

This morning we all went on a walk, well...we went on half a walk and then Jane fell down and skinned both knees, so we walked home. Does someone fall down on every walk at your house? We did see a cool nest and the top of a broken robin's egg, so I consider PE and science covered for the day. ;-) Oh and first aid! LOL

Circle Time: an opening and closing verse from Oak Meadow's First Grade Week 1, plus we are learning the hymns For All Things Now Living and For the Beauty of the Earth so we sang those. They both fit very well with our OM curriculum. Everyone joined today's CT.

LA and art: I read the fairy tale for the letter A from OM syllabus and we illustrated the story and the letter A, capital and lower case. (Both Jane and Rose did this - Rose was too intrigued by our new art supplies to leave!) Our new Stone crayons, Stockmar block crayons, and Ferby colored pencils were big hits. Even Jeffrey colored his high chair tray. :-P

Rose began her OM6 year today by defining her vocabulary words and beginning some maps of Africa, Asia, and Europe. After some computer trouble, she got started back on Teaching Textbooks 6. Wow - apparently a few weeks off of math is baaaad news for a dyslexic!

Skye spent the morning getting ahead in Teaching Textbooks 4! Then she did some sketches of our backyard in prep for making a model. She also wrote in her journal, and started reading Stuart Little, which is too easy for her but is in OM and I'm not familiar enough with the curriculum to start making substitutions.

Jane did a bit in TT4 also.

They're here!

2009-06-09T17:53:00.000-07:00

No, not the bedbugs. This:

Our new curriculum is all here. Now I just have to find time to look through it, and figure out some sort of daily plan of attack.

Hopefully that will be soon, because this "time off" (read: bored kids thinking they can drive each other crazy) is killing me. ;-)

Switching gears

2009-06-07T17:30:00.000-07:00

The Oak Meadow curriculum is rolling in the door (or being shoved in the mailbox, more accurately) and after 6 years of doing school one way, we are trying something different. I am excited, the girls are wary. ;-)

I'm still waiting on First Grade. I want to get the hang of Oak Meadow with the younger ones first, so I'm not going to start with anyone until I get that in and get a chance to read through it.

I hope hope hope (how's that for mature writing?) to turn this blog into a nice, pictoral reflection of what's going on with our new venture into more gentle, creative, loving education.

I quit, LOL

2009-05-17T11:38:00.000-07:00

Well, we made it much of the way through Sonlight Core 4 before I threw in the towel. While we all seem to love history, and the readers and read alouds, I think the intense nature of the subjects covered over the last few months especially was too much for us. Civil War, the World Wars, the Holocaust...

I know they are important things to learn about, and we are all glad we did, but I think we lost our focus, and it became depressing in a way. Too heavy. We lost our focus on the Creator of the World, the King of History. Our Hope, our Joy. Heavy is OK if you don't lose touch with God.

We actually did finish 98% of the history assigned through Sonlight. What we did't finish were the readers and read alouds. I've asked some questions over on their forums, and am trying to piece together a gentle plan to read some of the books that others consider "not-to-miss."

I'll suggest Gone Away Lake as a summer reader. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson will be added when we study Asian Cultures next year. The older girls will listen to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry after I get a chance to get it from the library and take a listen myself (this could take awhile! When do I get kid free *hours*??) Possibly Thimble Summer as another "summer reader" - although I think our library has it on tape. We'll read The Winged Watchman next. Everyone said it was fantastic. But with this schedule I don't need to rush through it. We'll do it when we do it!

Sonlighters told me that In Search of the Source and Bruchko were good lead ins to Core 5. So I'll try to pre-read before the end of the summer and start there.

When all is said and done I think we are really only skipping one or two, but I feel suddenly FREE with that plan. Silly, I know, I needn't be a slave to any IG, but the books are always SO GOOD that I hate to miss any. But we need to move our focus right now.

We are very much looking forward to combining Solight's Core 5 read alouds and readers with Serendipity's World Tour starting...well, starting whenever I can't stand waiting anymore! :)

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2009-05-17T11:35:00.000-07:00

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3/2- 3/3 Rose

2009-05-04T08:16:00.000-07:00

Monday was a little odd, as dh worked from home (a new thing for us). He mostly hid away, but it was still "different." :)

DD did at least 30 minutes on Brainware Safari (both days). She is slowly and surely moving up levels, even on the ones that require her to click to a metronome (still difficult but improving).

Monday we did spelling (AAS). Review of sounds of g, c, a, e, i, o, u, ng, nk, ch, th, sh

She watched Lesson 9 from The Phonics Page and read the accompanying nonsense sentences from levels 7, 8, and 9.

Made her follow along as I read our read-aloud, Caddie Woodlawn.

Tuesday she read aloud to me from The Great Wave. She can do so well with just a little help. I'm seeing more clearly now that her dyslexia is much a function of her not applying what she *does* know, and rushing. Part ADHD, part personality... I'm not saying she doesn't have dyslexia, but I think she can present worse than than her true abilities. Or maybe it's just all the hard work we've done in the past month. ;-)

We've also started a Reader's Journal where she writes a short letter to me about what she is reading, and I write one back (ad infinitum). She is loving it, and I'm hoping that putting reading/writing in a fun and natural context will help her retention and progress with spelling/writing skills.

Mon- Thurs 2/26 Rose

2009-05-04T08:15:00.002-07:00

Started Brainware Safari today. Fun and frustrating at the same time. Luckily she found some sections she is really good at (general logic and manipulating images in her mind) - to make up for the multitude of areas where she was struggling (mostly due to working memory issues). They even seemed on the difficult side to me (blame my own working memory issues! :) ) She did this in two separate 30-60 minute chunks today.

Friends over today so not much work was accomplished. We needed the social break, though.

(no work yesterday due to other dd's birthday and dh being home)

2/20 Rose

2009-05-04T08:15:00.001-07:00

2/18 Rose

2009-05-04T08:14:00.001-07:00

AAS- Level 2 - introduced "wh" and "ee" - went back and reviewed last of words in Level 1 (that I had somehow missed yesterday). Still forgetting double l/s/f on occasion. Starting to understand how helpful it is to find the baseword/suffix/prefix to follow spelling rules. Had trouble with the short /u/ sound - kept wanting to spell it "a" since that's how you pronounce "a book," "a pencil" etc. So truck was track, trunk was trank. This is typical (vowel trouble) but a new one for us! I asked for advice on Chatterbee, we'll see if any is forthcoming!

Made /u/ model in clay and said short sound while tracing - spelled out truck and a few other short /u/ words in clay letters.

DYCFS- tape walking (p 65) this was more a struggle (to keep balance) than I expected. Discussed keeping her orientation point (from Davis book). She actually seemed to do better when her minds eye was watching her from off to the side ("I can see myself falling off balance then, and check myself")

Short day today - tomorrow is another dd's birthday so she spent time making cards and I spent that time researching other dyslexia intervention systems. (*insert picture of my eyes spinning around here* LOL)

2/17 Rose

2009-05-04T08:13:00.001-07:00

- Listened to lesson 8 from The Phonics Page (free phonics and spelling lesson quicktime "movies"). Had trouble remembering to use the soft sound of g and c before e,i,y

-finished up our quick review of Level 1 All About Spelling (these concepts and words will be constantly reviewed as we go along, but I'll be interspersing it with new learning in Level 2). Reviewed soft c/g rules, doubling s/l/f rule and when to use ck. Also when to add s or es to pluralize

capitalized B several times (bad habit) in word list

wrote capital D reversed, also lower and uppercase J

missed double s in glass (2x) and f in stiff

used "a" for the schwa /u/ in truck and /o/ in clock

forgot to capitalize proper names

missed "c" in black (2x) and truck

Will practice these in clay...not sure what else. These are long standing error types for her. She *is* starting to notice when things don't look right, just doesn't always know what to do next.

2/16 work (Rose)

2009-05-04T08:12:00.000-07:00

We both started out the day with a big hissy fit, LOL. Sad, but it led to a great, if tearful, discussion. Later in the day I heard DD say to her sister, "I love Mommy because when I have a problem, I go to her and she tells me what I should do to help it." Awwww...

-created clay representation of "before". She had trouble with this, both defining "before" and creating a good model for it. Much discussion later, she settled on showing one clock having 12PM on it and another with 1 PM on it, and a clay arrow pointing to the 12PM one. She kept wanting to use it more like "until" which is OK but not what this was supposed to be getting at (like, "The girl couldn't eat before making her lunch." i.e. she couldn't eat until she had made lunch - I know I was getting picky, but because she also had trouble with "cause" I wanted to make sure she really understood the term "before")

-used All About Spelling (AAS) cards from level 1 to do phoneme segmenting. Did very well overall - trouble with ing, ong, ung, (said they were 1 phoneme) and nk (divided it into two phonemes) words. Did about first 100 word cards.

-wrote on our clear-vinyl-covered dining room table with wet-erase markers (she loved this). Practiced some phonemes that have more than one sound, while writing that letter(s) - a, nk, c, g, ch, th, sh.

-the rest of the day was just her normal work, plus a walk with her 5yo sister

ETA: more reading of idiom dictionary after dinner. I find I'm talking in idioms lately! LOL

2/16/09

2009-05-04T08:10:00.000-07:00

It has been impossible to keep all the different details of therapy and academics in my overtaxed brain! Here's what I can remember doing from last week:

-Davis program (The Gift of Dyslexia and The Gift of Learning): discussed mind's eye and "disorientation" and found her orientation point; made clay doll of herself; made clay representations of the concepts: consequence, cause, effect. "Cause" was hard for her (as was "before" that we did today...telling...); made grid of 100 balls of clay and discussed multiplication and division; made clay alphabet and spoke forwards and backwards while looking and from memory; made clay numeral/words and correct # of dots (showed her "touchpoints" during this). Spelling the numbers was a struggle - we spelled and sounded out while tracing the letters.

-Flashcards for multiplication. Her request. It seems to be helping, even though it didn't in the past. Maybe because it was her choice? Maybe she's just matured?

-Ordered Brainware Jungle from Homeschool Buyer's Co-op. This is supposed to help memory, attention, planning, etc which I believe underlie most of her problems. It's not that she hasn't been taught everything several times over, it's that it doesn't stick!

-Physical activities from Developing Your Child For Success. The activites themselves were easy enough until it had to be done to a steady beat, although she could act out a rhythm. I was surprised at how difficult they were for a certain other family member but she is not the subject of this blog, LOL. Hopping on one foot, on alternating feet, hopping out a rhythm. Crawling using same side, crawling with alternating sides (i.e. left hand with right leg)

-Evenings after dinner with Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms. Usually done "Marshmallow Challenge" style (kids get marshmallows tossed to them for correct answers). They all love this.

Ugh, I'm blank. I'll edit this post if I remember anything else.

Current curriculum for Rose

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All About Spelling (they also have forums) - we are using this as intense phonics review, phonemic awareness, and general spelling.

Adding in How To Teach Spelling (the teacher's manual - once I get it!) for my own education. Even though AAS is a wonderfully complete and well presented program, I personally do better when I have teachers manuals from two different but similar programs. Dd sometimes needs things explained several ways, and having something else "at my fingertips" is a blessing.

How to Spell (the companion workbooks to HTTS) for some independent practice. We have 4 other children that sometimes need my attention. ;-)

Activities from The Gift of Dyslexia and The Gift of Learning by Ron Davis
Sonlight Readers

Sonlight History and Read Alouds

Apologia Exploring Creation with Astronomy

Spectrum Writing Workbook

Harcourt Family Learning Language Arts Grade 5 workbook

Wordly Wise book 7

Teaching Textbooks 6

Welcome

2009-03-08T11:26:00.000-07:00

I liked my Epiphany Prep School Header and blog colors so much over at my Epiphany Springs blog that I decided to create a new blog just to park the schooly stuff. :)