Week 16

Kindergarten Week 16

This week M worked on addition, geography, history, botany, telling time, reading, fine motor skills, gross motor skills, Spanish and art.

Week 15

Kindergarten Week 15

This week we started back at co-op! M worked on the hundred board, golden bead operations, handwriting, reading, and learned about concrete.

Week 14

Kindergarten Week 14

This week we worked on handwriting, golden bead formation of numbers and addition, art, PE, Spanish, geometry, and history.

Week 13

Kindergarten Week 13

Day 53 - Monday

M pulled out her basket of geometric solids, so we reviewed the names of each of the solids and used the labels to read and match with each solid. Since it was clear that she knew them all, I sent her on an object hunt around the apartment to see if she could find something to match each solid. She was able to find most of them, but a few were definitely tricky! We couldn't find a square-based pyramid, so she decided to mold one out of play-doh.

Week 12

Kindergarten Week 12

Day 50 - Monday

M is very much still on a reading kick. She says she enjoys math, but doesn't usually choose math work on her own. We have tried a few different things, including introducing this math journal, to make the math work a little more fun for her. Today, I wrote addition problems on cardstock strips and she used her colored bead bars to find the sums. She copied the problems into her math journal.

Week 11

Kindergarten Week 11

Day 46 - Monday

M has been cycling back to some work she already mastered (mainly Practical Life and Sensorial) because her little sister is showing interest. H (15 months) likes to carry the heavy brown stair prisms across the room, so M decided to demonstrate the *proper* use of the brown stair.

Maps, Music and Pollock

Kindergarten Week 10

Day 42 - Monday

Starting with the knobbed cylinders (demonstrating for little sis).

Math - This work took a LONG time to complete. M has been slowly gaining confidence in recognizing larger numbers, and she has wanted to attempt the hundred board again after giving up about half way the last time. My only guidance was getting her started grouping the numbers. I think it would be good to add some labels (0-10, 11-20, etc) to remind her to do that on her own, otherwise she spreads the tiles out randomly and can't find the numbers she's looking for. Even after sorting, it took a lot of concentration to complete the board, and she was extremely proud of herself at the end!