Yesterday, was a pretty good day. Ciara did a lot of writing, and as an incentive if she held her pencil correctly, I told her we could do our cooking class before math. This worked, and she decided that she would make the same cake as we did last week, but this time, she wanted to do it all on her own. Bonus free time for me! I helped Ciara put the cake into the oven, but otherwise she did everything else on her own and the cake turned out great.
For social studies we are still working on Ancient Greece. This time I thought it would be good to review some of the geography and political system. We have a map of the world in the front hallway that we bought off of Amazon for $4.00 and quite often we run over to the map so that Ciara can see how close we are to many of the Ancient Greek settlements.
Hideyo came over in the afternoon. She is really helping Ciara to gain confidence in her own abilities. Hideyo is very encouraging and gets Ciara excited about accomplishing difficult tasks.
I have noticed that since Ciara has been homeschooled, she really enjoys playing with her brothers. It used to be that after school and on weekends, she would lock herself in her room and not want to come out. The boys would often want to go play at the park, but she would rarely want to go with them. Sometimes she would even hide hoping that we would leave her alone. Now, she is out playing with the boys every day and even initiates the outings.
The map is in the front hallway. You can see our front door and where we put our shoes. You can probably tell from the picture, that we don't have a lot of space in our house here. This is why the map is right by the front door :)
Just a little further down the hallway is our chalkboard right beside the entrance to the kitchen and the living room.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Feel free to comment on anything you read