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I'm married to Tim (delivery driver and gorgeous musician), have 2 daughters, live on the south coast of the UK and have 1 aging cat (Hemmingway or Hemmy for short). I love reading, yoga, crafts, baking, daft old comedies, music and teaching.

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Friday, August 07, 2009

Yesterday and today

A few things the kids have done the last couple of days - photo heavy!

 

This obviously isn't the kids! Just wanted to show I've added a couple of sets of 3 part cards of Japanese musical intruments and Japanese animals. April loves these :)

 

Indeed, here she is! She matched up the pictures, as she usually does, but was obviously feeling clever today because she went on to carefully study the words and match them to. She can't read yet - she just studies the letters and finds the ones that are the same.

 

We're using MEP for maths but still throw in a few Montessori materials for variety :) Here's April with the red/blue rods.

 

... and doing the first lesson in her MEP book

 

In accordance with the MEP year 7 book, Rosie has been reviewing place value and rounding whole numbers. I did some stuff with her on the board first (well, copymasters stuck to the board!) and then she did some on her own. The Montessori decimal board actually comes in pretty handy for helping with this because it contains the whole and decimal numbers. We'll be using this for a while because the next topic is decimals!

 

I do use the decimal board slightly differently and have simple number cards rather than the different coloured squares that are normally with the board. Rosie gets MASSIVELY frustrated counting out the coloured squares (can't say I blame her, it would do my nut too!)

 

April sorting initial sound objects. The letters are the same as the ones covered in the first Jolly Phonics book.

 

Rosie working on vocabulary for her ecosystems lapbook.

 

Obviously, we've only just started the lapbooks, but here are the covers ... April's first (bit heavy-handed with the glue stick there!)

 

.... and Rosie's :)

 

Finally, April used watercolour pencils for the first time today and very much liked them! Here's her growling tiger.

That's all for now folks. Weather still looking ok ...ish for Sunday so fingers crossed for Compton Acres!