Another Good Start

David was a little nervous about having to start back to school. Now that we are well into the year he is doing well.

Sweet brothers.

John is starting Kindergarten this year. He is so excited. Can you tell?

This was a "box" activity for John the first week back. Goes really well with the ten apples up on top book.

Ten Apples Up on Top center activity up close. I got this at making learning fun http://www.makinglearningfun.com/themepages/ApplesUpOnTopMathIdeas.htm

John was so excited to review the letter b with his batman preschool pack from http://1plus1plus1equals1.blogspot.com/2010/10/batman-preschool-pack.html

He loved these box activities. I use "box" activities when I need John to be busy while working with David. Things are going way more smoothly than I thought they would be. Homeschooling two children is not that bad. :)

"A" Post

Today we are starting our first day of school. John's curriculum does a letter/sound a day! Pretty fast huh. I'm not sure how we will do but I think high expectations are important and most of the time our children will rise to the occasion. Anyway, I found these cute videos to help us with our letter sound association.

This video was a little babyish but he liked it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cGwUfXv-X4

This was really cute.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tif2a8vXeAA&feature=fvsr

to teach both long and short a and review writing them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAuIzZttP4

I also wanted to read John the book Ten Apples Up On Top but our local library didn't have it so I looked on youtube and found a dad reading it for his children. Here is the link if you are interested. We are having a good day. I'll post pictures from our first day later.