Day 62: The Easter Bunny

Happy Easter!
This bunny showed up just at the right time. Right after I showed the kids the bunny, one of them found an egg in the house. Oh my, the commotion! But now they believe that they have seen the Easter bunny. I am not telling them.....

Day 61: Easter celebration continued

Every year, our Church put on an Easter celebration with tons of fun for the kids in our church and our community. There are little games, bounce houses, rides, and we even had a laser tag this year. It's a big production and the kids are looking forward to it. We had fun and Peanut even let them do a face painting on her - something my kids have not enjoyed in the past. She was quite proud of the butterfly and wore it all day. Happy Easter.

Day 60: Good Friday

We celebrated today's day by not having an official school day, by playing with friends in the park in the morning, and by having a dinner celebration with friends. The kids had their own table (and so did the adults - hallelujah!). So they all dressed up nicely. I love when these kids do their own prayers in their sweet little voices, it's so precious. We had a fantastic time worshiping and eating. Thank you, friends, for having us over.

And thank you, Jesus, for going on that cross knowingly what would happen to you. Thank you, God, for your almighty power conquering death and giving us the gift of eternal life. It was a sad day so many thousands of years ago, but in just three days, we will celebrate even more because of Jesus' resurrection. Praise the Lord.

Day 59: Homeschool PE class

We love our PE class. Every week, the kids learn new games, and play old ones. Today, all their team work skills were being developed with this fun game. They had to 'run' races with each other. And when I say 'run' I mean it took them a lot of effort and time to get from place A to place B. It was not at all easy to coordinate their steps. There was some falling down and lots of laughter. They had a blast and came out all sweaty.

Day 58: Peanut wants to show off her work

I have not shared with the kids that I am photo-journaling about their homeschooling for a year, but they must have got on on their own. Peanut wanted me to take pictures of her work today.

On the left is today's page from the Explode the Code. We are on book 1 1/2 and she is catching on with the words. After finishing the first book on the series, I felt she was not ready for the second book. So there is a book in the middle, hence it's called 1 1/2. It is a great way of repeating everything from the first book without doing the same exercise. She wrote today's page all by herself without asking a million times for Mami's help. So yeah, I feel like we are getting where we need to go.

On the right side, you see a page from her Math book. We started with Horizon grade 1 but after twenty lessons, we hit a point that was too hard for her. So I needed to go back a little and buy her a different Math book. I know that Singapore Math is a little advanced, so I opted for the B book, which means for the second part of Kindergarten. She flew through the book and tomorrow will be her last day, then the book is completed. We will go back to Horizon and if that still doesn't work, I might just have to switch to Singapore altogether.

For today, she understood counting by 2s so well, that I had to give her a 'grade' for it. Just a few months ago, I was pulling my hairs out because she did not get the concept of skip counting. We had to drop it and now that we came back to it, she totally got it. This is why homeschooling works so much better! We can drop things if they don't work. We can skip ahead or go back, all depending on what the student needs. We would not want it any other way.