Brynne's First Day of First Grade

Monday was Brynne's first day of First Grade at Journey to Excellence. We are schooling her as a first grader instead of as a kindergartener.

Because our decision to bring her home was a quick one, I had to scramble to put together a set of lessons for her and a work station. But, we did pretty good with the amount of time we had.

Because we did some bedroom furniture changes this weekend (you can read about that in an upcoming post on Taulman Times), we had a desk available for her. Here it is right with Dawson and my desks. Our little one room schoolhouse.

This came from Eli's room and it works perfectly for her. The height isn't exactly right when she is doing handwriting, so I have her sit at our antique school desk for that.

She had a great first day learning about "A", reading and doing math. We also made a trip to the library to get us prepared for the upcoming week.

I'll be posting about her schedule and curriculum in another post.

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ABCya

Eli's reading resource teacher shared a website with me yesterday that I would like to pass along. It's called ABCya . There are separate educational sections with fantastic games for ages kindergarten through 5th grade. I browsed the 2nd grade level, and it includes age-appropriate games about Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Geometry, Patterns, Mouse Manipulation, Art and Holiday games. There are lots and lots of fun and creative games for children to play. They are fun, but oh, so educational. Eli's favorite, in his short time playing it, was Create a Car . A lot of the games also have Apps available for purchase (99 cents for most of them) for the iPad and iPhone. I have been looking for another free website for games similar to Starfall , for some time. I think I have found it. I can feel confident having Eli and Brynne play these games.

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Dawson made edible cells on Friday. He made an animal cell pizza ... and a plant cell chocolate chip cookie ... He reviewed what he's learned about cells the past two weeks, and I had dinner made by someone else. Win, win!! I am linking up at Science Sunday at Adventures in Mommydom.

Last Child in the Woods ~ Chapters 1-4

Welcome to our book study of Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv. To be honest, I have no idea what this "study" is going to look like. I imagine that when we get together I will post about all of the things that caught my eye. And I would ask that you leave a comment, or a link to your own blog post in the comment, about what caught yours. This isn't anything formal, ladies, just a place to talk about what we have read. I have now read the first four chapters of Last Child in the Woods two times. It is just so good. Several things have specifically hit me deep, but in general I just realized that "times, they are a changin'." Things aren't the way they were when we were kids. Chapter 1. Gifts of Nature ~ "When I see birches bend to left and right ... I like to think some boy's been swinging them." ~ Robert Frost What is your definition of nature? What feelings, visions, senses does it conjure up? For me, it's not a

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