GRADE 1 - TERM 1

LITTLE A - GRADE 1 - TERM 1

Well - we tried public school. Oct 2015 - June 2016

Little A did very well academically - but struggled with anxiety, and socially.

Little A would chew her fingers and toes until they bled. Every day at drop off - was either a fight, tears, she would run away - or she held on to me so tight that the teacher had to pry her off of me. I am done with the fighting - so we are trying this again... time will tell I guess what is a better option at this time for Little A. 

Time to try home school again.

Little A has been very eager to get into her workbooks.

Today is Sept 5th - She has already completed 34 pages in her Jump Math book.

She is enjoying it very much.

I am hoping that she will get assessments done this year and hopefully some supports will fall into place...

Reading out loud:

1 Sticks and Stones. by Beth Ferry

2  Water can be... by Laura Purdie Salas

3 Strawberry Shortcake  Ballet School (Level 2 reader). Sierra Harimann

4 Fancy Nancy It's Backwards Day! by Jane O'COnnor (Level 1 reader)

5 What is That? Said the Cat. by Grace Maccarone

6 Pinkalicious The pinkeriffic Playdate. by by Victoria Kann

7Fancy Nancy and the Too Loose tooth. by Jane O Connor

Books Read to Little A:
(A) Little Tree. by Loren Long

(A) Strawberry Shortcake  Ballet School (Level 2 reader). Sierra Harimann

Math: Little A is working through her Jump Math work book.
She has completed the following units:
Counting
Match by counting
There is order here
The number that means nothing
Writing numbers
Counting using a chart
More and Less
One to one correspondence
How many more

BOOK: SUBTRACTION ACTIVITIES - Grade 1
To help her to learn and visualize the math - she is using Jungle animal counters.
We talked about 5 monkeys take away 3 monkeys = 2 monkeys...
7 animals and 5 animals leave = 2 animals left.

Sept 6 - 3 pages in the work book.

Science: Living & Non-Living Things

Socials::Natural Resources

Books Read:
Water. By Emily Neye
Splash! Learn about water. By Nadia Higgins
Water - National Geographic. by Melissa Stewart

Language Arts

We are going to do a study on the book "Where the Wild Things Are". by Maurice Sendak

PE & Health:

Career

Bible

Fine Arts:

Dance: Little A will be taking a Christian Dance class with other home schoolers - they also learn Bible verses and do devotions together.

Music: 

Drama

Art:Little A is taking an art class at 4 Cats art studio on Thursday afternoons