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math games book came in!
October 7, 2008 | 
Author i can’t believe how fast it came in! i’m really excited about going in there and figuring out what games i need to be playing with maeve so that we can get past the counting issue.
i’m even thinking that on the days where we are just not able to get to a lesson, that we can still “do math” with just the games alone. and that might just work out just fine, actually. give her some more practice, in a fun way. she loves games!
oh and i forgot to mention it comes with a dvd! i have to go check it out! i forgot to watch it today!
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goals for the year
i don’t have this fully figured out yet…but i thought i’d start putting down what i do already know.
FOR MATH–my goal is to have the entire rightstart math level B book done by the end of december. this is because i found out late in the game that level A is considered (loosely) kindergarten level and so level B is (again, loosely) 1st grade. so i want to be starting level C in january…i feel like that’s more where i’d like her to be.
first week down
i knew i wouldn’t be able to keep up the blogging every day of school thing. but that’s ok. i’ll summarize what we did the last 3 days.
i do keep track of it all in my planner, so i won’t forget what we did and have it written out so i can see at-a-glance how we’re doing.
everyday i encourage maeven to do some silent reading in her chapter book. now that she’s finally enjoying reading, this isn’t hard at all. she’s currently working on the 3rd book in the “magic kitten” series. i am wanting her to finish that up soon because she has a few more books that we got from the library that i’d like her to get a chance to get to before they are due. also, the more she reads, the better she gets at reading. on thursday she read 12 pages (she very proudly told me).
2nd day a success!
we actually did quite a lot today.
it went pretty well, although for some reason…despite having things to do, the kids continue to bicker like crazy and are driving ME crazy with it! *sigh* now i understand why mom would sometimes knock my brother and my heads together to get us to stop fighting. LOL! (no, i won’t ever do that, but i UNDERSTAND it now!)
ok, so what we accomplished:
we completed one entire math lesson (not really a huge feat, they are short…but considering tyren was interrupting us, that’s something to be proud of, i think.) i still have 2 more to do to catch up for today (since we didn’t get the lessons from yesterday done). i may do it when daddy gets home and can entertain the little guy.
ordered spelling curriculum
so i finally decided upon “sequential spelling” by avko…the side-by-side comparison of traditional spelling vs sequential is what sold me…that and that it was recommended by so many fellow homeschoolers. and its cheap! $9.95 for each level. sounds good to me! we’ll give it a try and see how it goes!!
i also ordered all the library books to go with our first 2 lessons of SOTW. and today i started ordering documentaries to go along with them as well…though i still need to search some more.
i also started sorting my materials in my massive binder thingy. i don’t know what to call it! i want to say its a trapper keeper…shows how old i am, throwback to the 80s. but its not that brand of course…do they still exist even? LOL! anyway i started figuring out how i want that thing organized…apparently last year i never did figure it out so i’m starting from scratch there. kinda fun actually…hopefully it will work for me.
orders arrived
our math lesson book (and a couple extra manipulatives that we didn’t yet have from the last kit that i added to the order) came in as well as the story of the world audiobook.
i haven’t had a chance to really look at the book yet, but we’ve been listening to the cd. we already read the equivalent of the first 2 cds (out of 7), i believe…so its just review for us right now…but that’s exactly what i wanted for it for now. i want to be able to have maeven hear the stories in the book over and over so that it will be more likely to stick.
and its read by jim weiss, who is the guy that does her sleepytime cd…what she goes to sleep to every nite. repeatedly. (she frequently wakes in the night and finds that it helps her to go back to sleep to put the cd on again…so she gets up a couple times a night and hits play again. its not uncommon for me to wake in the middle of the night to his voice, LOL).
gearing up
well i’m just starting, so it’s not super impressive yet…but here’s what i’ve started, in order to gear up for another year of homeschooling…
this week i ordered the next level of right start math for maeven. (level b) we had been doing level a, but it really was too slow moving and she was getting bored (plus tyren constantly interrupted us) so i scrapped it and researched the next level. i learned that she really should be in level b. i wanted to start from the beginning, but it was designed for preschool and kindergarten aged and she was already older than that. the lessons were designed to go slowly for younger children. but i learned from the yahoogroup of people that use this program that she would be fine starting on level b because it covers the same info, but at a faster pace for older children. so i finally found the money to order it. yay me! 
(its not cheap) and picked up the extra manipulatives to add to what i had already bought. i’m saving level a for tyren.
