The Connett Connection

Well, another slow week on the Kindergarten front.  My husband said it seemed like we don't "do" school more often than we do.  Some weeks it does seem like it!  Monday we were traveling, Wednesday I had a meeting and Friday her cousin came to town, so we really only had two formal school days this week.  In our defense, when we have "no school days" we still read and do art and simple things like that, just not any of our curriculum.  It is why I like homeschooling so much!  It is so flexible! We continued learning about resources this week, and focused on natural and man made resources .  We did this little sort to learn about the difference between the two. We continued learning about our family and this week focused on where we live.  I had my daughter draw our house.  Apparently her bedroom is a very important place to her as she drew the bunk beds that she and her little brother share and her night stand. We also expa...

Another week is done!  We had a lot of fun this week.  After having a day off on Monday due to Irma, we kicked our school days back up on Tuesday.  My daughter did NOT want to have school.  After four days off, who can blame her.  This is the reason we do year round school.  It keeps her in a routine and that keeps her from becoming upset when things have to change! We started our week off by going on a leaf hunt.  We started our fall themed activities last week and so this week we focused specifically on fall leaves. These pictures show my daughter picking up a leaf she found and the other is a close up of the collection of leaves and sticks we ended up with at the end of our walk!                                  As we were going through our pile of leaves and sorting them by ...