We squeezed school into our morning after a trip to the DOL and before lunch. I learned that besides specifying "Stay next to me when we go in", I should also mention "Do not rub your faces onto the seat of any chairs that might also be next to me." I should also learn to buy tabs through the mail or online, rather than in person. Edmund is becoming quite the color-er. For him. When we first started school in September, this clown would have one line through him. Now he's got colored pants. And it takes a few more seconds to complete. He finishes all his workbooks in about two minutes. As fast as it takes me to cut out each sheet.
For his birthday we gave him a "Chicken Sox" Klutz book. They're supposed to be geared towards younger kids. Great idea, great little pom-pom animals... but the glue just doesn't work.
I'm thinking glue dots would solve the problem. We used about half the tube of glue trying to get all the parts to stay on. The bird didn't work any better, loosing it's head, beak, and eyes. Finally we got all the pieces attached, we'll see what happens when they dry.
These are the workbooks Valentine is currently doing, I'm a big fan of Kumon's preschool books. But I like Bob Jones for math. The Kumon numbers was great at first, but progressed too quickly from tracing 1-10 to filling in charts of missing numbers 1-30. Bob Jones has a smoother transition and sneaks in new ideas that they build on later. Like today was addition sentences, using pennies. I bet before the end of the book they go over monetary values.
I also really love "Five Minute Devotions for Children" by Pamela and Douglas Kennedy. It relates a character quality to an animal or bug. Today's bug was a Monarch butterfly. One of the discussion questions was " What do you think you would like to be when you grow up?" Edmund said a butterfly.
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