I must say, I am deeply pleased with Oak Meadow. It's organized, it had more material making for a fuller educational experience (mind you compared to kindergarten), and it's easy to follow and make modifications. We received the "box" yesterday, and I'm already able to jump in and go forward with minimal reading. I feel quite prepped for OM from my Enki experience. What I like how it simply flows, with no struggle. I don't miss Enki at all.
Today we began the OM First Grade curriculum. We worked with capital and lower case A, long and short vowel sounds for letter A through rhyming, letter recognition (a lot more for Avery), greater or less than with use of <> symbols, recalling last night's bedtime story about the magic spindle, learned a poem about a dame's tame lame crane, built a horse stable out of blocks that would provide safety, warmth for horses (ethan's problem solving task for his building project)(ethan included heaters for the horses and elaborate arches for decoration), watched the angel bear yoga dvd that really is rather lousy but Ethan mostly liked it (i can do a better job but it's nice to have visuals and not always be the teacher). We also learned about lunar cycles and how the moon affects the tides. We created a lunar calendar but I will do another one tomorrow with a complete month's images. Tonight is the full moon and I hope we have good visibility to help him see the clear starry moonless sky.
It's been a good full day. Ethan has Tae Kwon Do tonight and he is looking forward to wearing his uniform.
Tomorrow we start our Happy Feet Yoga class, and depending upon the flow of the class we'll decide in three weeks if we want to keep running it.
Yesterday we started our Muzzy Spanish curriculum and we all know Yo Soy....
It's been a good week so far. Mahalo
