October and November school

I love kindergarten. There is so much fun in this year! Valerie got to go to a stable and ride horses. She loved it! 

We also had fun at the pumpkin patch and did lots of Halloween activities at home!

We went to a Branson show. It was so great! We learned all about Marco Polo's journey to China while watching dance and acrobatics!

We love arts and crafts! They did this finger painting Fall picture with our wonderful babysitters.

There is always time for good friends! Madalyn and Valerie always play together during Lily's violin lesson. They also see each other at CC each week!

Valerie is doing so great at math this year! She is really into counting to 100 and writing her numbers. This is one of her favorite activities. 

We also just started on Saxon math. She is loving it. It is very fun and easy to teach. She loves getting to color and count objects. She loves doing the calendar and weather.

At CC, we have been learning about space. She learned about constellations. The toilet paper roll has holes punched in it so you can shine a light in and see the constellation. Then she made a constellation with marshmallows and tooth picks. It isn't set up right in this picture thought..she was playing with it and moving it around.

Valerie is so nurturing and always helping Daphne. She helped her learn to cut with scissors and glue to put this scarecrow together.

We also went to the post office and had a great field trip learning about the mail. She also sent a letter in the mail to her friend, Lily E. 

Proud of my girl!

Each child is so unique and different. I am thankful that God allowed me to have more than one child so that I could truly see this and learn from it. Valerie is my child who gets so frustrated when she doesn't grasp a new skill right away. Often times, I worry about why learning seems so hard for her. I worry about if she will need extra help or more than I can give her. Then she does it! Just like that, she masters skills overnight. We have done journal work for the last year. She would mainly copy what I wrote. Then yesterday, I said, "Valerie, please just try to write something on your own." Instead of complaining, she did it. She wrote three simple sentences. She didn't need to copy...except, I am sure she must have found Bristol's names somewhere. She has been reading cat in one of her books and I knew she could write Eli. She even remembered her finger spaces. I am so happy! She just started kindergarten five weeks ago and she is already mastering skills!

Here was her writing today. She wrote, "I go to Build A Bear." She stretched out those letter sounds! Yay for my girl! So proud of her!

Also she has started to read more and more of her sight word readers. She is starting to be able to sound out words. In Classical Conversations, she is memorizing all of her facts so well. Last year, it was a challenge. Now, she makes it look easy! She mastered counting by 2's and 10's. She almost has her 3's and 5's except for one or two mess ups. Such a proud Mommy right now!

Valerie is in kindergarten

This year, Valerie is in kindergarten. She is still a little resistant some days to having to do work....especially writing, but she is getting to be such a smart young lady. 

 Valerie loves her class at Classical Conversations. She is in a kindergarten class with Ms. Kristen Phillips as her tutor. She also has a bunch of her best friends in class: Elise, Canta, Bristol, Madelyn and a few other great girls!

We took the kids to a fun pottery place as part of their library flip cards. What a great art project!

Our babysitter brought a little bird that they were nursing to health and Valerie got a little science lesson on animals and carrying for their needs. 

Here is Valerie with her week 1 presentation at CC of her self and her family!

 We also had a great first field trip of the year! We went to a space shuttle and learned about the history of space travel. 

 Valerie enjoyed learning about the control buttons. She asked me, "Are we really going to space?" lol I said, "well we might be gone a lot longer than Daphne and Caleb's babysitter is expecting than!" 

We are ready for a great year of learning!