W is for "wax" and "world"

Even though I haven't reported on our school for a while, we are still plugging away on the alphabet. This week is brought to us by the letter "W". Today we made wax pictures. It was so easy and so much fun. We took crayons and sharpened them in a pencil sharpener onto wax paper. Then, we put another piece of wax paper on top and ironed them together to melt the wax.



In this bottom picture, I love the way it looks like Farley is also admiring the artwork. In fact, the squirrels in our yard were driving him crazy this morning. He kept running from the front window to the back window (that overlooks the deck) barking and having a fit. They, of course, just sat and looked at him, taunting him even more. Finally, I opend the front door and he had a good chase.

While we have had fun this year learning to recognize letters, Scott is far from mastering the letters and their sounds. Derrick and I have decided that we are going to homeschool him again next year and begin the alphabet again, this time focusing on the sounds that letters make, as well as recognizing the big and little letters. That is a typical Pre-K curriculum anyway. I'll get a different set of lesson plans, and advance the math and science a bit. Of course, the biggest goal is for Scott and Andrew to do lots of playing and exploring, as that is how they learn best.