Anyway, after a few months of me slacking off (justifiably, I would say, what with Dad's death and the holidays - but my laziness had a lot to do with it too), we're finally back on track with our letter of the week program. I was told about this wonderful website (thanks Kim!) that has added to our program and makes me excited about it again. The lady who puts this website together is a Christian home-school mom who puts together her curriculum and then shares them on her website. So, for each letter she is doing she provides her calendar (and a blank one in case you don't do things exactly as she does), the worksheets that she has put together, a Bible verse for that week, and miscellaneous other things - all for FREE! She does have a members only site that gives other things like power point presentations, but since I'm not really home-schooling Tristan full time, I didn't feel we needed that option. Her website/blog also links to several other sites that have fabulous ideas too. Can you tell I'm excited???
Wednesday we added the Bible verse and coloring sheet to the curriculum I currently use, and what do you know? Tristan had it memorized by the end of the day! "Keep your tongue from evil." Psalm 34:13 - and he can even tell you what it means! In addition to reviewing the Bible verse, here's a few things that we did yesterday:
Making his letters out of play dough
He continues to write his letters daily
"K"angaroo craft
His kangaroo
He seems to enjoy the new activities - it sure beats writing your letters and reading the same books day after day! I'm hoping the new tactile learning will encourage him to commit things to memory a little better. He's no slouch when it comes to remembering things, but he doesn't always think that learning and remembering his letters is all that important right now. I already have next weeks lesson planned out and I'm really looking forward to seeing how he responds to this new curriculum in the next few weeks.
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