Teaching Time

When it comes to homeschooling,
our favorite spot is scenic and peaceful.
Anna, Micaiah, and I head outside to enjoy sitting out on our balcony enjoying the nice weather while learning, working, and playing. Of course, its much different than the lazy days of summer when they had a lot of play time. Yes, we call homeschooling 'teaching time' because really its just a lot more fun to say!!!

Homeschooling Anna is a lot of FUN. She really enjoys it and surprisingly enough, I am enjoying it too. It can be tough especially when Micaiah is begging for attention. Yet it is so worth it to see her grow and expand on concepts and ideas, as well as allowing Micaiah to join in during coloring activities and reading time.

In our home, teaching time is three days a week (Mon/Tues/Thurs) in the mornings from 9-11:00am. For this semester, we are working on putting letters together to make and sound out words, handwriting, identifying and writing capital and lowercase letters, writing her name, identifying and writing numbers, counting to 20, shapes, primary and secondary colors, weather, and reading. Most of the handwriting, alphabet, and number lessons are done in workbooks though I'm not using one specific curriculum. I like to include one activity or craft that reinforces one of the lessons for the week. We also have lots and lots of reading time. Usually, I will read to Anna for 20-30 minutes a day out of a chapter book we've chosen. Right now we're reading out of "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Its the first book of the series and we plan to read all of them.
Anna really enjoys reading...and storytelling.

I'm excited to post some of Anna's work.
Thats our homeschooling journey so far.