The First Week

It has been a lot of fun easing into a homeschool routine. I really like that if she doesn't understand something the first time, I can change tactics to a method that she will understand.

It was fun the other day doing our math lesson and learning the place values for ones and tens. Once she figured it out she didn't want to stop working on it. That was two days ago and this morning when she got up she went to our "makeshift" white board to practice place values more all on her own. Another advantage of our "white board" is that she hates to do printing worksheets, but loves doing printing on the window.

This little impromptu learning session then turned into a spelling assignment for the sight words we are working on this week. This is part of the reason I wanted to homeschool, instead of a set time where she is required to do "school work" it just seems to happen during the day. Usually after breakfast she will ask me to do her lessons.

I should add a little note about our makeshift white board. You see, I have a very small budget for homeschool supplies and buying a nice size board for school just wasn't in the budget, so I had a great idea the other day. My aunt gave Monkey a package of crayola window crayons a while back, and I have a nice big window in my living room that is only a couple of feet off the ground so she is able to reach really well to use it too. She really enjoys being able to write on the window to "do school".