Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Homeschool 2018

So, looking back at my pins on Pinterest, it seems like I've always had a deep interest in Montessori.

Two days into workbooks and Bubbles was saying she hated school. Luckily for her, homeschool can be fliud so here I am, prepping to drop a bunch of money at https://www.montessoribymom.com in a few months.

For now, however, I need to make due with what we have.

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.
      -Arthur Ashe

She's enjoying the Prodigy app for math so far.

So, I started out introducing Bubbles to the letter A because it's first in her workbooks, but I think a more logical starting place would be ETOAIN.

Beings as Etoain is a collection of the most common letters, I figure word recognition should be easiest if you know the easiest letters first.

We'll do a letter a week. This week is apparently A. Next week we'll tackle E