Lula, I think, is going to be a fun kid to teach. She's so low energy that she happily sits in one place for long periods of time. I can't remember the last time I had a "good" student that just wanted to sit around and leaf through books and color.
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| Playing with Heart Patterns in February |
She is almost five and would be starting Kindergarten next year, although she would be a very young Kindergartener because of her summer birthday.
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| Doing Kindergarten Math |
I just recently got her going on workbooks, using Memoria Press Junior Kindergarten, plus we've been making a binder of alphabet pages:
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| Gluing Feathers on the letter F |
And being the younger sister of more demanding siblings means she has had more time to just peacefully develop her own skills and interests on her own timeline. I pulled out this old
Lego Simple Machines kit I bought years and years ago, back when these kits were considered "consumable." I had Daniel work through all the task cards (that is his favorite way to learn/discover), but Lula had fun too:
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| A machine that drills holes in mountains- designed by Lula |
Now I'm looking at all the books/curricula I own and wondering... What is Lula's learning style? What do I own that will work for her? She isn't going to be a rat to teach like Daniel (the other day he used logic and then violence to prove that L was a vowel and the next day covered his ears when I tried to teach him how to count by 25s). She seems to catch on and remember things better than the next sister up (who shall remain unnamed, but Daniel has now caught up to her in math grades-they are both in 2nd grade, but on different ends of the book).
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| Playing with kites that Daniel made |
She loves having her sisters read to her and play school with her, so I'm thinking about refilling my shelves with good reading books that read on a 3rd grade reading level...
