Piano Lessons and weekly highlights!

Since last week we were having a school break I'll be sharing the Highlights for the previous week and some other cool things that happened.

How was our school break? It was excellent! The weather was great and we got to spend lots of time outside and had lots of fun.

If you follow us in Instagram you already know Little V started piano lessons. If you don't follow us, please feel free to follow us @athometeachingv. Karen from Teach Your Child Piano, invited me to participate in this free challenge she was offering and since we always wanted to learn how to play piano we decided to accept it. We are enjoying it very much. I can't believe yet that I'm actually feeling equipped to teach Little V how to play the piano, far from being a professional, but I do feel like I have the tools needed to teach her the basics and that's what made me decide to give it a try.It was a different proposal than any other program I had seen before because it enabled me to teach her, that gives us more time together, and we get to learn something cool together. I'll have another post sharing more details about this program.

Tracing the Treble Chef

Playing Mary Had a Little Lamb

Little V successfully completed her All About Reading Level 3 curriculum. Instead of starting Level 4 right away, I decided to dedicate some time for Poetry, again more details at a later post because I have lots of fun ideas in my mind right now and I'll share them as they happen.

For Math we use the Math U See curriculum and we love it, but since it's a mastery curriculum Little V doesn't get to learn in Math what kids her age are learning in public school, so I purchase on Teachers Pay Teachers website some activities to make sure she's learning the basics requirements for her grade, it's not necessary but it's something I feel I need to do it. I find so many cool activities there that it's almost impossible to not want them. I love hands on learning and Amy Lemons has it all. I purchased the Magic of Math Unit 3 - Geometry and Fractions and we are having  so much fun with it! There are no worksheets just really cool hands on activities.

Here's some of the cool activities:

Something else we have been doing for a while now is giving Little V more chores around the house. We started with 30 minutes of cleaning on Mondays and 15 minutes all the other days of the week, sometimes during the weekends we stick to the basics chores needed.

She likes helping and it also makes her feel good, she sees that she can also contribute and on top of all she's learning important skills.

That's it for today friends.  Hope you enjoyed our post, feel free to leave comments below, ask questions or share this post to your family and friends.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki 

Dice Math Addition!

By now, you probably figured out I try my best to make Math as fun as possible to little V. I had so many bad experiences with Math while I was in school and I want to make sure she doesn't have to go through the same experience.

Here little V is working on the same activity sheet I downloaded from Confessions of a Homeschooler, I shared on a post on December 10th, 2014. However, I decided to make it a little different by making addition with dice. These dice are from Think Fun Games and you can find them in the widget on the right side bar.

A great way to practice addition!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki

Extra Math Activity - Number Mazes

I really like to add some more fun activities to our Math curriculum, and I simply love these Number Mazes from Confessions of a Homeschooler. We started using the mazes counting by ones's as you can see in the picture below and now we are using the skipping counting by 2's and by 10's which is little V has already learned with the Math U See Curriculum.

In order to re-utilize the same activity we use these colored tokens that I purchased at The Chalkboard.

This activity keeps little V focused and as you can see it really makes her think about the order of the numbers, almost like the alphabetizing in section, here she is finding a section of numbers from 1-100 and following the order to complete the maze.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki

Domino Math!

This is a really cool idea to make addition fun. I've seen a few activities similar to this one on Pinterest, but this specific one where little V is working on, is from the Confessions of a Homeschooler, and it's also part of the K4 Curriculum that she offers.

This picture isn't the best, but you can get an idea of the activity. Cool, right? I found these little dominoes at Lakeshore Learning, they are super cute and little V has lots of fun working with them. I do place them with face/dots down, so she won't get smart and choose the easy ones. ;o)

How do I wish I could go back in time and have this much fun learning!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Vanessa Z. Pawlicki