3 Months' Progress

Since September I have been homeschooling my 2 year old son and, occasionally, my 6 year old daughter.

I'm happy to say that we've been making progress.

I've noticed that when my daughter and I make time to incorporate homeschool activities together with her school work, she manages to ace her tests. Now, we are trying so hard to find time after school to squeeze in some activities to help her strengthen her understanding of her lessons in school.  I try not to occupy so much of her free time so much so that she won't have time to relax and play. It becomes hard when she comes home drained and exhausted from school that most of the time I just let her take her nap in the afternoon instead. Hopefully, we'll have more time to do hands on activities soon.

As for my toddler, I am so proud of him for knowing his colors and shapes. Now, he is able to name and identify colors: red, yellow, blue, orange, violet, green, pink, black, white and brown. He can also name and identify the shapes: circle, square, triangle, oval, star, diamond, cross, rectangle (although he can't pronounce it very well) and occasionally hexagon. He can now answer the question, "what is your name?", in complete sentence. I can also see that he is a budding book lover since he always asks me to read to him his books and he enjoys our reading time so much that he even asks me to read his book thrice in a row. He can now count 1-10 without skipping any number and can count objects whenever asked to. He is now trying to count beyond 10 and reached up to 24. He can name the different animals in his ABC Book of Animals and can even give the sound of some of the animals. He can act out which way is up and which way is down. He is starting to identify whether the object is small or big and short or long. He can name and point to the different parts of his body such as: eyes, nose, ears, tongue, hair, armpit, lips, legs, arms, feet and hands. He can sing several nursery rhymes. He can make the sign of the cross and is starting to learn the prayer "Angel of God". He is also starting to identify the different letters of the alphabet. He can water the plants on his own. He can put away  his toys when asked to.

All these things make me feel very fulfilled as a mom. It is very rewarding to know that I was able to teach these things that they teach in school. I am happy to see their progress every step of the way. I am thrilled to discover their new capabilities. I am exhilarated to know that I am part of their journey to learning day by day.

These are things that I should be thankful to God for… for giving me the opportunity to experience these things with my children. I know that when they grow old, these are the times that I will remember, these are the times that I will cherish so much. Hopefully, they too will remember when they grow up.

Thank you Lord for these things!!!

Saturdays are Homeschooling days

This is what we did today:

We discussed about body covering of animals.

Using the paper mosaic technique, Aia tried to resemble the scales of the snake.

Aia's snake with scales.

 

After doing our activity, she wanted to make a card for Daddy using what she learned about mosaic.

After our activity, Aia cleans her study area while singing the Disney Junior song, "..let's clean-up the mess!"

For our culinary class, Aia makes Buko Pandan Jelly. Here she is measuring the water.

The little chef, stirring the jelly powder in the water.

Aia blowing the steam from  the jelly.

Here's the excited little connoisseur.

The first one to taste...

 

After our culinary lesson, mommy teacher had to cook lunch but not before another real life lesson. Coincidentally, we were having milk fish for lunch but before I clean and cut the fish I just had to show Aia the actual scales still attached to the fish. I let her touch the fish and its scales. She even helped take the scales off. Here is the picture below. Later, Aia observed some scales under a magnifying glass. She made a brilliant discovery, and so did I.

After our lunch Migui and Aia ate the tasty jelly. They both loved it!!!

Hooray for lil chef Aia! 

After lunch, Aia practiced writing "thirteen"&"fourteen".

Later that afternoon, her cousins came by and we had dinner together. She played with them till they had to go home (can't remember what time but it was late)