Our Homeschool, Week 25: "Circus"

We had our Circus theme last week...unfortunately, Bu was sick (and actually still is) so we didn't do a whole lot. I'm earmarking this theme to use again at the end of our "year". An advantage of homeschooling is being able to move things around as we need to! 

Here's a bunch of activities I had printed out, but I'm just going to save this in our binder until later :)

We tried out Time4Learning this week. Bu liked the activities we tried, but he was frustrated with operating the mouse. He was clicking the scroll-wheel and moving the whole page instead of clicking the button to select, and so this didn't last very long. I was able to keep him more engaged with this than with the ABCMouse, though, so it looks like we're going to need to get a new mouse!

Here's an example of some the work he did in therapy this week, too. He is asked "where is the circle? where is the triangle?" and he has to place a sticker on the shape he's asked for. He got 100% right independently! He's also doing great on his independent circle drawing, and they've started working on window panes so he can practice making crossed lines. The first one was the therapist, and the last one was Bu and her together, but the other 4 windows were Bu independently. Not bad at all for his first try! He's also been practicing ordering numbers from 0-9. He tends to get the 8 and 9 backwards, but otherwise, he's got it! We also bought a custom jigsaw puzzle with Bu's (real) name as the puzzle pieces. He loves it and it's going to make it very easy for him to learn to spell and recognize his name. A great example of using the way your child likes to learn to your advantage!

Here's hoping Bu feels better soon so we can get to work on our next theme!

UPCOMING THEMES

April 4 -  Five Senses

April 11 - Construction

April 18 - Earth Day

April 25 - Robots

May 2 - Mother's Day