For Elijah, we finished up Adventures in U.S. History by studying the 50 States and when they came into the union. We also studied some inventions and inventors that were important to our country. In math he continued in Math U See Gamma, learning his multiplication facts. We stopped about half way through the book, and will pick it back up next year. He finished out his school year very well, and we look forward to all that we will learn next year!
Noah finished up his Kindergarten work in April and for the last few weeks of our school year we focused on learning to read and improving his handwriting skills. At the beginning of the school year he just wasn't quite ready to read yet, so I put off the reading lessons. In about January we picked up with Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read, and that worked really well for us, for about a month. After that it was a struggle to get him interested in doing his reading lessons. So I picked up Ruth Beechick's book A Home Start in Reading, it gave me a lot of great information and tools to use in helping him learn to read. After implementing some of her ideas he began doing really well. We played sight word games and used our letter tiles from All About Spelling that Elijah is using.
We finished up our official school year on May 21, and I must say that we were all ready to be finished for the year! All in all I think our school year was a success. The boys both learned a lot and finished strong. I am very proud of what they accomplished this year! I look forward to see what the Lord has in store for us next year. Stay tuned to see what we will be using next year for our curriculum.
To stay with tradition, here is our side by side comparison pictures of the first and last day of school. Enjoy!
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