It’s back to work. Here are our new year school goals.
We worked on a nursery rhyme unit with our Tapestry of Grace studies this week. We practiced rhyming and picking out the main character in the poems. These notebooking pages come with the TOG lower grammar printable pack. I have a Mother Goose book that my uncle gave me when I was 3 and the girls loved seeing his inscription on the title page to me.
We started some new copywork to go along with our Hero Tales Bible study. The girls love the missionary stories so far. We read the story each morning and the girls recite our character trait and verse. They copy the message and they draw something meaningful from the story. They love the drawing element.
We’re on lesson 21 of All About Reading, Level 2. They’re coming right along. Almost fluent readers! Tori likes the hands on stuff more than Kate. And she needs the lessons more. Kate is almost bored, but it’s good review.
Kate is putting story cards in chronological order.
Our January poem. I made this on Publisher. Kate already has it memorized. She recited it for me today! She remembers it from last year. I guess I should find a new one, but I love this one. I plan to make a Montessori poetry basket to go with our snow unit this month. Stay tuned!
Mama’s favorite: Katie reading the Tacky the Penguin books while she waits on Tori and Mama to transition to the next thing.
Happy New Year!
I love your copywork phrases! We are starting back up next week and I look forward to the routine again!
Thanks! The girls are really enjoying the drawing aspect and their handwriting is improving!
Looks great! I love the copywork too =) You continue to make me think about TOG, though I think I’ll be more tempted by in once both my kids are school-aged. I’m not so sure it’s worth it with just one young child. Thanks for linking this up to Trivium Tuesdays last week!
Thanks! and yes…it took us until the middle 2 began school to get TOG. I couldn’t justify the expense with just #1. and we have #4 who will still use it in another few years. We went through Story of the World and it wasn’t worth it to her to go a 2nd cycle. And TOG uses SOTW in upper grammar as a spine text so they think it’s only for that age level too!