Homeschooling

This year we are in a daily co-op.  I teach Spelling to Write and Read to my preschooler and others in his class.  I teach Math using Singapore Math to my son's class and to my first grade daughter's class.  I also teach poetry to all the kids.  I sit in with my toddler and do preschool with her as well.  All the teachers are moms and we are working together with the Classical approach to home schooling.  It is so exciting to see my kids learning and growing daily.  Last year I met with a co-op one day a week and tried to do things on my own the rest of the week.  It didn't work well for me.  I was distracted by food, and dishes and laundry and I didn't feel like my daughter was getting all she needed.  I still desired to home school her but I wanted more structure so this is exactly what we needed.  We go in the morning from 8 to noon and then we're done with SWR, math, science, history, Bible, poetry, art and music.  We come home and can play and learn in other fun ways. 

With the preschoolers I'm trying to "Prep their Senses" to help them to hear words and sounds differently.  We have been working on rhyming and syllable counting. I made a file folder game.  It has 4 animals attached to the file folder, you then have a bunch of food cards and you feed the animals the foods that have the same number of syllables.  The kids LOVE it. It's great to hear them chatter like a monkey as they feed it ice cream and then count out the 2 syllables.  I'll be attaching it soon.