homeschooling through a divorce

Divorce has been one of the hardest things I ever delt with in my life. Unfortunatly Jenna's homeschooling has gotten the short end of the stick. Adjusting to everything has been a slow process for both of us. But we need to get back to our daily routines which includes school. So what better way to start but at the beginning of a brand new month. So with the start of May, we will begin school again on Monday. Of course Jenna is not to thrilled about starting school, so I am going to plan some fun for after school. Yes I am going to bribe her with some fun if she doesn't give me a hard time during school.




Reading has been here and there as well. But a couple of days ago we began reading daily once again. I was very pleased with how well she read. I was thankful that the lack of daily reading didn't set her back. It was so easy with everything going on for me to give in when she protest reading, but not no more she can complain all she wants,lol, we are reading every day.



Spelling is still improving daily through her own personal writing that she likes to do. We will be doing spelling ball once again for some of her words she uses alot in her writing.



Writing, well what can I say my daughter loves to write. The girl writes daily. She has been bugging me to learn cursive writing, so I guess we will be starting that some time soon. I will still work with her printing as well, she needs some practice using the line paper (which she doesn't like to use).



Math Horizon k is almost done she has a handful of lessons left. We will also be working on her addition and subtraction math facts. I feel that the young elementary age is best for learning these.



Art will be going on in May. We plan on doing a spring art show at some point.So we need to do that before summer.



Thats what is planned for now. But who knows once we get back in school mode we may add on more.I am really looking forward to starting up again. I think getting back into a routine will be good for both of us. I also hope to be posting on this blog more next month.

quick update

Homeschooling has been very light this month. We have worked on the basics and then just had some fun together playing. We have alot of life changes going on so it's hard to say how much schooling will get done in April. No matter what we will continue with the basics and just enjoy having fun playing.

slowing things down was just what Jenna needed

We took it easy all week and it worked out good. We had a four day week. She worked on Math(Horizons k book 2 and online math facts), reading, writing and geography practice online. Next week is winter break for the schools around here, so we will have another light week. She will begin working on some art projects for her upcoming art show.

Just a quick update

It was another 4 day week, which is okay because Jenna is already doing school work that was for next year. We had a rough start to the week, she had a couple days filled with some tears and groans of not wanting to do school. So we took it super easy this week. I am going to do the same this coming week. We will be covering math and reading, but I am not going to push her to do more unless she wants too. At this age, I believe it is best to go at the childs pace and right now she needs to slow down. Oh and we will make sure to have fun everday as always.

4 day week once again

Well it is now February and it's getting closer to spring. This week was almost the same as last week. Jenna and I spent the beginning of the week outside playing after school, but then the temps got too cold once again to play outside. Not much to say about this school week, it seems redundant, I need to mix things up a bit.

Math - Horizon K book 2 - not too much left in this workbook. I only had her do two lessons. She also worked on her math facts.

Reading - Explode the code 3 - she did one lesson. She will be done with this workbook by the end of the month. She also read aloud.

Spelling - Spelling workout B - she is working on lesson 7. We are going to continue with this lesson next week.

Grammer - First language lessons 1 - she loves her lessons.She has mastered the common and proper nouns it was a proud moment for her.

Writing - Writing with ease 1 - She doesn't like the copy work or the narration too much, but it needs to be done so she does it.

Geography - She is ready to go to Asia next, she has mastered North America.

Like I said it was a short week.

The last full week of January

Wow, this month has really gone by fast. Jenna and I are in the middle of building a snow fort. We hope to continue working on it everyday next week. Jenna had another good week of school. I found a fun way to go over math facts with her. We use her hopscotch mat and she jumps on the number that is the answer. Soon enough I will be timing her to see how fast she can get the answers.

Here is what she did this week

Math - Horizon k book 2 - she did 4 lessons, reviewed math facts and money.

Reading - Explode the code book 3 - she did 2 lessons. She also read aloud.

Spelling - Spelling workout B - We are on lesson 5. She struggled at the beginning of the week with bread and said, but by the end of the week she knew all her spelling words. So we did the Jenna got a 100 spelling dance.

Grammer - First language lessons 1 - She really enjoys this. So far she has memorized 2 poems. Knows the definition of a noun. And she is starting to be able to pick out common and proper nouns.

Writing- Writing with ease 1 - We did four lessons. She would rather not do this, but copy work and narration is important so we do it.

Geography - She is still just working on knowing the seven continents (which she she knows very well now). She nows north,south,east and west. She is also working on knowing the countries in North America. Then we will move on to a different continent. I still want to make a salt map with her. I really need to research about this online.

For some reason we did not do Art this week. I did clean off my big table so we can get creative next week. I am looking forward to making some valantines with her.

A 4 day school week

This was a short school week, but Jenna still got a weeks work of school work done.

Math - Horizon k book 2 - she did 4 lessons this week and some addition/subtraction math fact reviews. She also worked on some money review.

Reading - Explode the code book 3 - 2 lessons completed. She also did some reading aloud and some reading by herself  without me asking her too. I love seeing her do that.

Spelling - Spelling workout B - She did two word lists for spelling. So that is 20 words. She missed 2 on her spelling test on friday, have and skin. She does know how to spell have now, but for some reason she keeps putting a c in skin.

Grammer - She really loves her grammer lessons. We reviewed nouns - she is learning about person and place nouns. She seems to be understanding for the most part which are common nouns and proper nouns. She also remembered most of her second poem that she needs to memorize. Oh, and she is learning to answer in complete sentences. She needs some input from me at times about answering in complete sentences, but other times she remembers herself.

Writing - Writing with ease level 1 - She is doing very well with her copy work and her narrations.

Geography - She is doing very well when it comes to memorizing the continets and such.

Art - Artistic pursuit preschool - She did a lesson, which was fingerpainting. I really want to incorporate more art into our week.

It was a good week. I hope to have more planned out for next month. Some of my upcoming lessons are on hold because I don't have the books I want, so I will be searching for some new lessons. Maybe incorporating some science into our week. Jenna does like experiments.