Here’s what we’ve been up to for the past week or so:
Science:
How does your garden grow? Quite well! We have fresh cherry tomatoes this week and our pepper is getting bigger. Tornado Boy loves to see if any tomatoes are ripe enough to pick each morning. We definitely are very limited with space in the Aerogarden, but I love that it’s inside and we really are involved with it each day. I know that the plants would be much bigger if they were outside, but I’m afraid that we would have forgotten to water them and they would have died in this awful heat.
Vocabulary:
We’ve been very pleased with the combination of Wordly Wise and Spelling City. We’ve completed four lessons in the past couple of weeks. One more lesson and we’ll be able to try out some of the games available on the Wordly Wise site, too. I’m already seeing leaps in Tornado Boy’s vocabulary as he tries out new words. We’ve done some side lessons as we’ve explore the new words. This is a great program for when you’re done with phonics lessons.
Spanish:
We’ve discovered Little Pim! I’ll create a full post with a product review in the coming weeks once we’ve had more time with him; but so far we really like it. It teaches in a manner that’s aimed at babies to preschoolers and is similar to how we learned sign language when TB was a baby. Tornado Boy is quickly picking up new words in Spanish. It’s definitely piqued his curiosity because a few days ago in the car he switched his Bob the Builder video to Spanish mode and was singing along with the theme song in Spanish. It’s fun to watch him play with a new language. It’s going to be like sign language all over again when I was working to keep up with him!
Playtime:
The costume box was very popular this week. We also got to try out some new costumes and props at the Children’s Museum.
To see what other families are up to this week – hop on over to Homeschool Creations.
I love the costumes on Tornado Boy! And what a fast learner he is! We tried Little Pim when JC was younger but it didn’t hold her attention. We might try it again to see if she’s interested now that she’s older. I thought it was well done too. I’m jealous of your garden. Maybe we should try indoors too because I don’t think we’ll remember to water them otherwise!
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My kids are always in costumes, they’re so much fun.
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The costumes are so cute! Selena is always making her own costumes. Kid’s are so creative!
Oooo…my boys would be so jealous of that pirate costume!!
What a great post…I LOVE your pictures
I am interested in the Spanish Little Pim you mentioned…I plan on starting Spanish with my year old in August (the start of our year)…would you recommend this?
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Interestingly, Anna is not interested much in dressing up – too bad because I think it’s a lot of fun to invent costumes. It’s great that you found a language program that works – maybe we need to find something like this in German. And I am curious about Wordly Wise – is it free or do you need to pay for it?
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