tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83379420044381411012011-07-08T08:25:44.828-07:00Freyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02835252044064655525noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337942004438141101.post-27911643184998195442009-09-20T21:15:00.000-07:002009-09-20T21:20:37.670-07:00

Hi,Haven't posted for a while!Been busy reorganising curriculum and touring Disneyland!We took the girls down from Sunday to Thursday last week. The boys stayed at home with a babysitter as they really wouldn't have coped with the noise and stimuli.It was soooooooooooooooooo easy managing just 2 kids! Anna was extremely well behaved. She had a book of 'social stories' written to remind her about

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I literally did with this one!I asked the girls to write down a few topics each that they were interested in or wanted to know more about to see if we could incorporate them into our homeschool. Anna wants to know more about Autism so I'm going to see what I can teach them about it on a level they'll understand. They both had 'bees' on their lists which ties in nicely with the FIAR title; ' The

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Monday we started "Madeline" and a study of Paris and the digestive system. It seems to be going well. Tomorrow we're going to a French bakery, " Bouchon" as a 'fieldtrip'!Mmmmm sounds like fun to me too :)Over the weekend we had some new friends for dinner. It was a really nice evening even if we did have to spend it inside in the aircon due to the heat.We seem to have a nice little routine

Freyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02835252044064655525noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8337942004438141101.post-17190276029894569402009-08-27T16:33:00.000-07:002009-08-27T16:40:17.467-07:00

Just a few photos from today with descriptions. The first is Eva, stretching out on the couch and relaxing after school. The other two are master Jude who doesn't really cook in his kitchen but likes to dump the china plates in the sink to make a loud noise whilst we read! Check out the 'innocent', "it wasn't me" face! Better go now and make pizza dough foir dinner tonight. Yummmmmmm.

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This week we kicked off MEP (Maths programme) and it has been a huge hit! Anna is actually looking forward tio her Maths lessons :)We've also been learning about giraffes and a little about Egypt and France. The girls have been notebooking and are doing really well with it. Yesterday they fashioned ' pyramids' from clay and painted them today after they'd hardened.We also measured ourselves, the

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So Isaac's first day of preschool went very well and so has the rest of the week. He is absolutely loving it! There were no tears, no drama, no nothing!He has therapy after his class so it's a long and intensive day for a little guy. He finishes up about 2pm after a 9:15 start but is so far coping very, very well. The girls, Jude and I all miss him at home and we all look forward to picking him

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I've just got things planned and ready to go for the week. We're going to be working on the book, "The Giraffe that walked to Paris". It is so beautifully illustrated I can hardly wait till tomorrow to start it PLUS Giraffes are my all time favourite animal :)The new Math MEP programme is all bound and ready to go and we have a basket of books to browse on Egypt, Paris and Giraffes so it looks

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Today we loaded up the car and the kids and headed down to Sausalito. The bay area discovery museum had an exhibition on China which tied in really nicely with our study of, "The story of Ping" and China. It was really worthwhile and all 4 kids enjoyed themselves in one way or another. Isaac loves bridges and seeing as this particular museum is right at the foot of the golden gate bridge, he was

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The girls started school early and finished early again today and this seems to work well.They had a great incentive; their little friend was coming for a play :) They've already had a fashion show.......................you really don't want to know what their room looks like right now.......and now they're upstairs with Isaac cuddling on the couch.I, in the meantime have FINALLY finished out all

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The girls were great today. They settled down to their desks at 8am and worked steadily. They worked so well that aside from their assigned reading they were done by 10:45! Excellent :) It seems our new behaviour system is paying off. I told them I am looking for good manners, good presentation, staying on task and in Anna's case, no emotional outburts or rages. For every day that they stick to

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We found out something today! Starting school at 11am does NOT work for our Family. We left in the morning to go to the park and feed the ducks (there were also 6 new ducklings!) and by the time we got back and Isaac started his therapy and Jude had his lunch it was nearing noon.With Jude in bed and the girls fed it was about 1pm before we settled into the meatier work for the day. We all agreed

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Today we started with Ping!All went well except the attitude of Eva at the very end. I'm thinking that despite sleeping in she's still tired from Summer camp. I have to remind myself that she has only just turned 7 and to have a little more patience with her. In the end, she finished up what was required, gave me a hug and went for a rest on her bed with her Nintendo DS.Earlier in the morning

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Well I finally succumbed to what everyone else has been doing for a while now and have mustered up the courage (and the time) to try and construct a blog. It will be a place to talk about our Family, our School and our feelings.I have been homeschooling Anna and Eva since May this year after ps just became too much for Anna to deal with (High functioning Autism and ADHD). It's been wonderful to

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