Macaw alters her own curriculum!

The power of a 5 year old! 

There is nothing more amazing than watching my children learn...except watching them come up with their own way to learn!

Yesterday, Macaw and I were working on Language Arts.  Our lesson was interrupted and I returned to find this on her desk!

I see my foot.

She is working on high frequency words with word and pictures as part of her Calvert curriculum.

As you can see in the picture...there is an entire stack of "picture cards".  She set up her sentence using a piece to her new pedicure set she got the other day.

This routine continued as she changed her sentence simply by adding a new object.

I see my cup.

We went on to read..."I see my nail clippers", "I see my pencil", "I see my nail file"....

This small alteration made this lesson so much fun for Macaw!

It's wonderful to see her make changes to her own curriculum.  That's what homeschooling is all about...tailoring the curriculum to meet the needs of an individual child and there's nothing better than seeing them tailor it themselves!

Great Job Macaw...now on to today's lesson!

Jack and Jill

We are loving the Calvert Curriculum that we are using with Macaw!!

Today's rhyme is "Jack and Jill"...

I am always adding extra activities in where ever I can and with every story or rhyme, I try to find at least one craft.  I can not believe that I have not discovered http://www.makinglearningfun.com/ sooner!  This is a wonderful free site for my little ones...and to think I was going to pay for Enchanted Learning!  Ahh...anyways, Macaw has been working on different enrichment activities this morning. 

Here she is trying to recite her new rhyme with her finger puppets that she made.  Hey, not too bad considering we had only read the rhyme a few times before she felt ready to try to recite it!

She also made sequence cards

She's taking a break for now...but when she returns, she will be making a pail before trying to recite her new rhyme!