Author Archives: devin
After reading some of your comments on the assignment sheets and observing the children in class, I have made a few adjustments to our curriculum. The first one is that for the rest of the school year, I will be the one to introduce new phonograms to the children in class and you will review [...]
We’re happy to announce that we’ll have a full time Kindy program next year! Amy Smith, wife of Headmaster Smith, will be teaching this class next year. She graduated from The Master’s College with a teaching degree, taught two years at West Valley Special Ed Center, and has five years of homeschool experience. She is [...]
Bible
On Tuesdays, you are welcome to open your family Bible or a children’s bible to read the passage that corresponds with the Bible Timeline color page. Although the 4th time through the Big Picture Story Bible may seem overly repetitive to you as the reader, I can assure you that your child enjoys the predictability of [...]
Reading Practice:
Please retain the four books and the half page reading log that you received on the Friday before our vacation. I would prefer that you continue to encourage your child to read those four books, more than once before the end of session 3. I will select other books for us to read in class, so that you [...]
We will continue to review math facts (+1, +2, doubles and introducing the “friends of 10”) using flash cards, timed math test or www.handwritingforkids.com each week. You can use the timed math facts page that you will find in your child’s HW folder each week, or you may have your child use the ones on the website [...]
Spalding Language Arts - This week we will begin to introduce one phonogram a day for the next six weeks and then stop to review. At home, you will introduce the sound and correct formation of the phonograms /sh/ and /ee/. In your child’s HW folder you will find an extra practice page that contains words [...]
Tuesday, November 8th was originally a field trip that was cancelled. Rather than making a new assignment sheet, please just review what has already been learned and make note on the page about what assignments were completed that day (for attendance).
Spalding Language Arts- All of the first 26 phonograms have now been introduced to the [...]
Spalding Language Arts- You will find a copy of an oral assessment that was completed on Friday to see how many of the Phonograms 1-26 that your child was able to recall in your child’s HW folder. The ones that are circled, they were unable to clearly recall. The last four have not been formally [...]
Literature- Talon Ingram did a great job as our first “Storyteller” this week. After listening to the same story at least four times,The Frog Prince, he was able to recall so many details of the story. Having internalized many of the phrases and words that were used in the original Brother’s Grim version of the [...]
