Hadley's First Story

We have a good sized tadpole that we are going to watch morph into a frog. We've been learning about the process. Hadley wrote her very first story today all by herself. It is about a frog...

The letal frog fond(found) a grl. The grl pikt(picked) up the frog. She gav it a hug. The End.

Nature Studies

Yesterday was Nature Studies with our homeschool group. Lot's of fun. The kids played a whole bunch of nature related games. Afterwards, the kids and I(my kids) searched the pond for tadpoles. I really wanted to bring some home to watch. We found a huge tadpole and caught it. We are going to make a home for it today.

I am very happy with what the kids have been doing. For now we do math, phonics and handwriting every day. They also each read a Bob Book to me. I am going to cut them back to 2 x per week on the HWT because they are moving through it too quickly. I am going to introduce other ways of doing copywork. In the next couple of weeks I am going to order the last few things we need for the new school year-we start in July. Clint and I decided to have Lennon start on a few things at that time, he will be turning 4 in July. Just a few simple goals-recognizing his name, writing his name, letters and sounds, numbers, colors, shapes. All the basic stuff.

Corb's Quetion

I love some of the questions Corbin asks us. He asks things I am sure I never questioned or even gave a second thought to. Yesterday, while he was doing his handwriting, he was given the word "Six" to copy. He was quiet for a little, then asked me how you spell "a". I told him it was "a". He rattled off a few other letters, then fell quiet again. When he spoke again he phrased this question "Why don't the letters have words? Why do only the numbers have words?" Hmmm.... Well, I never thought about it before. I told him that sometimes you have to write out the word for a "6". I thought that was a pretty lame answer so I went on with...Well, letters make up words and they are all sounds so we don't really need a word for letters. But then I thought some more about it, I asked Clint about it. His reply was that you need the word for "6" so that we know what "6" sounds like to say otherwise, it is just a symbol with no clues as to how to say it. I retorted with but so are letters. Why don't we spell "B" like it sounds-"Buh"? And maybe we do and I just don't know it, or we don't use the "words" for letters very often. Of course by the end of our conversation(Clint and I), Corb having long grown bored with us was off playing.