Skull drawing...
Zombie skeletons...
I particularly love the glitter tooth she added...
Ira glittering her fairy house...
Emers being not a baby....
A Halloween card to me from Ira...
"Fire powers the sun and makes us hot"
Alton brown taught us how to make homemade candy corn... Ira drew me a reenactment to make sure I didn't forget...
Ghost
Decorating outside...
Ira really loves worksheets. It's hilarious to me how MUCH she lives to sit and fill out worksheets-I'm the EXACT same way. As a nurse I loved all the paperwork- most nurses complained and complained, but I would sit at the end of the shift happily checking boxes and writing assessments out.
Anyway- here are a few of her worksheets.
The decoder exercises are get absolute favourite...
I thought this one would be one we would do together, she shocked me by finishing it on her own in under a minute!
It's fascinating to me how learning and reading is a code that unlocks all on it's own if you don't force it. The girls pick up on things I wouldn't have noticed or thought of.
Liv said, "an M is an unhappy W" I loved that. Liv calls out letters everywhere! Having an older sibling seems to really accelerate interest in such things.
This page- the "easiest" *I* thought ended up being really valuable. Ira got frustrated after going super fast and miscounting the spiderwebs. She said "I've never done that wrong" we had a long talk about how doing things "wrong" can often teach us more that always getting them "right". That's sometimes wrong isn't wrong at all, just part of learning.
Then I pulled out worksheets from 8 months ago that were full of "wrong" answers and backwards Es and barely legible Ss and Gs.
I showed her that having fun and doing what you love is important, even if you don't have the right or perfect answers, just keep having fun.
I promised her that to this day I miscount my money if I go too fast and that my handwriting looks just awful if I'm in a rush or jotting down a note.
Funny how this little exercise led to an hour of nostalgia and discussion.
I really love being the one guiding her through all of this. I feel that her love of learning and perfectionist personality could become unbalanced really easily in the wrong learning environment.
Lots of words today! Look at me!
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