Lesson 15

Wow...15 days since we started our new year with our heads full of plans...many master plans! MU-WA-WA-WA!!!!! The first 15 days have just flown. We look forward to our days and I have to admit I miss teaching on the days we take off. It has just been a fun year so far! We have 155 days left of this year! SOOOOO NEAT!

Highlights of the day:

Eli started his 2nd spelling list of the 2nd grade. And he knows them all already. So...we will not be studying them but once more day and that will be before the test. I tell ya, teach phonics and they can spell anything. They just need to know the rules! I would love to teach lots of kids to read. Here is his new spelling list for those that are curious:
1. be 11. that
2. we 12. then
3. go 13. thin
4. so 14. path
5. try 15. with
6. shy 16. cloth
7. she 17. clothes
8. shape 18. one
9. wish 19. two
10. fresh 20. to

This spelling list is working on:
e in me
sh in ship
o in go
th in this
y in fly
th in thick

Today he also worked on making sure that the first letter of his sentence was capitilized and that he added a . ? or !.

He says his favorite part of the day was when he made his spinning rocket:

When you hold the spinning rocket out behind you and RUN it spins like crazy! It was very Eliman friendly! LOL!

Remy had fun today as well. He is really serious about learning to read. He doesn't like that Eli can do something so well and he can't. So...I brought out my "Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading" and we started with the short vowel sound of Aa. So far....so good. When I used this with Eli he was reading within the month. We will have to see how Remy does. He is a lot younger than Eli is. Eli was in kinder and Remy is in 3 year old preschool still. LOL! We will just let him take the lead.

He did something neat today:

He glued cotton balls for the clouds, colored the umbrella, and painted rain and raindrops. He loved it! It lead into a very cute conversation.

Then he made a bird that balances on your FINGER! How cool is that? Well, let's look at the pictures. :)

I just love that last photo! LOL! Oh gosh he is SO yummy! :) I could EAT HIM UP! Yummy-yummy-O!

That was the day...learning to decode the human language called English, again making plans for rocket ship transportation and defying the laws of gravity with a little fun thrown in! :)