Hello! I'm the MamaLlama, Mama to one great little Llama who will be five in March. I'm a mama by adoption (great way to form a family! I'm also a PS teacher who homeschools by night, weekend, and summer. The Little Llama is K age, but is one a first grade level more or less. He is doing well at his reading and math. We, after many attempts, are more or less Waldorf lead learners. We are using Oak Meadow K (www.oakmeadow.com) and soon will be using OM 1. In addition, we add in reading a reading primer from the 1870's and one from the UK (Oxford Reading Tree First Phonics). Our plan is to also do the Math U See Primer soon. Right now we live in the UK, but will be moving home to the US within the month. DS has had a term of K here in school, and while it has been good in lots of ways, the fact that he has sensory issues means that we learn better at home.
Our typical day right now:
1. Morning cirlce-morning verse, prayers, finger poems, rhymes and poems. DS just finished learning a butterfly poem and is quite pleased with himself.
2. Main lesson: This is reading or math depending on the day. We might do one or more of the following: read a myth or fairy tale having to do with the letter, create a pictoletter, practice our handwriting with the letters we know, take a walk to look for the letter, walk or run the letters, etc.
3. Additional lesson: science, social studies, music or art. This week we have made wholegrain bread, soup, painted with watercolours using blue and yellow, heard an old myth about the sun, talked about one thing being made up of many parts.
4. Closing verse.
Soon we will be adding in handiwork and recorder. DS would also like to look at taking Suzuki violin, though that may ahve to wait til Summer. We will be adding in a class in PE for exercise and social reasons. We also do lots of freeplay and playdates as well as hang out with our adoption group.
Looking forward to getting to know you!
Blessings and happy new year!
ML