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Gardening with Dr. D

It’s amazing the kind of help you can get when you tell your friends and family that you’re homeschooling your kids.  Dr. D attends our church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).  I went to visit her one day and told her I was homeschooling my kids.  As a retired school teacher with a Masters in Biology and PhD in Business Administration & Social Change, Dr. D offered her help.  She has been teaching the kids each week about how to grow a garden.

So far, my children have learned how to plant seeds, water plants, apply fertilizer, thin out plants, identify weeds and remove them, and thank God for helping the plants to grow.

Last week we harvested mustard greens, turnip greens, bok choy and green onions.  I made a wonderful pot of stew with the mustard greens.

Can’t wait to learn more from this awesome teacher!  Thanks Dr. D!!! 😀

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1st Quarter Evaluation for Homeschool

I just had my son Ephraim evaluated by his aunt, who is a certified teacher, on Saturday.  The whole thing took about 2 hours.  I printed off the Florida State Standards and Benchmarks for Kindergarten and wanted her to see where he was at.

It seems as though I did a good job teaching him basic level things like reading, writing, addition and subtraction.  But now I need to take the lessons to the next level and start teaching my son how to use the information in a more in depth way – “critical thinking”.

Here I was thinking that my son was almost ready for 1st grade when in actuality he doesn’t even understand what “beneath” means.  He also has a hard time following two and three step instructions and applying addition and subtraction to life situations.

I bought $80 more of curriculum to help me with this task.  I found a new website called www.criticalthinking.com

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New Plant Theme Page!!

I created a new Kindergarten Plant Theme page.  This is basically what we did for the past two weeks for science.  My children learned all about planting seeds, what it takes to make a seed grow and toured the botanical gardens for a field trip.

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My Son Thanked Me for Pushing Him

Today I was giving my son a math lesson on forming groups.  Using counting bears, I asked him to form 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group.  He struggled and we worked on it together on two seperate occassions.  Then I asked him to do it by himself.  That’s when he really struggled, but I knew he could do it.  I pushed him and pushed him, and just when he was about to give up, I gave him the pep talk of his life.

3 minutes later he yelled, “Mommy, I did it!!”  I came into the room and saw that my son created 5 groups of bears with 4 bears in each group, just like I asked him to.  He was beeming with pride 😀 !!!

And to my surprise, he jumped up and said, “Mommy, I’m so proud of you for teaching me!!  And I’m so happy I did it by myself!!”  Then he gave me a really BIG HUG. 

That was such a huge reward for me, I’ll have the motivation now to homeschool for the next 3 months.

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