Today we did our 'so glad to be homeschooling day'. Our tradition is to bake cookies the day before, place them beside the bed with a flask of something to drink and a stack (ten books each...40 books in total) to read. When we all wake we have cookies for breakfast and read through all the wonderful books. It took awhile, but the cookies lasted as long as the books. We had lots of distractions mostly running after Shai. Even with the new twists it was a great way to start off. Its a reminder to me to live intentionally, simply, slowly.
Ben has a very strong motivation to up his reading ability. He really wants to read The Wandmaker's Guidebook on his own. The weather was beautiful so we went outside. I grabbed the chalk and we played on our 'chalkboard'. I wrote out the alphabet and the kids took turns spelling things out by jumping from letter to letter. They would have each other guess what word they were righting, I would challenge them with words and of course we sang the alphabet jumping style.
This lead to hopscotch. After regular hopscotch the kids wrote out paths with only even numbers, others with odd numbers, counting by tens, going backwards. The sidewalk from our house and half way around the court was full! We had a blast hoping our way around!
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