For the next month, I may only blog a few times a week, as I’m ahead of my class reunion this year, which is way in Wisconsin. I have to get after people who need to send in their money and questionnaire, as well as create our full-color class pamphlet, complete with photos! It’s just a small class, but I want to give the project my best. We leave in a few weeks to Wisconsin and will probably be gone for at least a week.
In the meantime, I am taking pictures of Satori’s creative projects that she does on her own. I like to do this now and then to document how her writing, spelling, drawings are coming along. First a bit of where we’re at, four weeks into First Grade taken seriously. Academically, we’re on Lesson 12 in All About Spelling Level 3, learning our consonant and vowel suffixes (-ness, -ful, -ly). Our grammar and writing programs are currently overlapping a lot, but soon she’ll learn more about writing and advanced grammar topics. We dropped Writing With Ease and First Language Lessons for now and are focusing on Write Source and Growing With Grammar which gives her more writing opportunities which she loves. She’s tackling some of the more difficult lowercase letters in cursive – Handwriting Without Tears Cursive. Her current favorite subjects are Writing, Grammar, and Vocabulary.
We got some large blank books which I thought would be great for science and history journals, and she decided to use them for her art journals. I never thought we’d have an art appreciation journal, but here you go. In the top in tiny numbers are the dates these artists lived – Vincent van Gogh and Mary Cassatt.
A bit more about Vincent…
She even draws Vincent to her pen pals. She’s been taking to labeling everything, which is kinda cute.
Satori has been obsessed with writing “chapter books”. She has been begging me to find her a chapter book journal to write in. Hmmm… At this point, we haven’t even really gone over what a paragraph is, much less a chapter. This was written early this month. Daddy was impressed because she described a “gleeming” coat in such detail. (Click to see larger size.)
I found this page laying around, who can tell me what book this is from? This was from last month.
Another pen pal letter, writing about her artists she’s studying, and letting her know our house is safe from the big Colorado fires a few weeks back.
This was taken a long time ago, I thought all her mice drawings were cute. Since then, she has gotten much better at writing correct sentences.
Another labeled drawing of our house.
One thing I can tell immediately after looking at all her recent (the past few weeks) writings, is that she’s gotten a better grasp on correct sentences of all kinds – statements, questions, exclamations, and she’s using them in her writings. Just a month ago, she’d insert random periods all over the place, just because she knows that she needs periods.
I’m so excited to see how much she’ll change by the time she turns six early November!
