We started our new school year with a European vacation. (One of many great perks of homeschooling, travels during the off seasons)
I will blog about it and post photos soon, just wanted to pop on and let you know I hadn’t forgotten you. We were simply off exploring many lovely historical sights.
Learning and enjoying (sometimes not enjoying) various different cultural experiences.
I wasn’t planning on starting the reading tree until we started our official new year, but the kids had different ideas and so we already have a few new leaves up and I’m pleasantly surprised at my daughters reading level…might ditch the BOB books as she appears to be farther along.
Listening to my son read skippyjon jones with a Spanish accent made me realize he might get the Spanish language better than French…but lucky for him he’s stuck learning both haha!
It is such a treat to take a break from laundry, house chores and other misc not as important tasks to sit down and listen to a story read out loud by your child. Hearing their voices tackle challenging words, see the pride when they conquer that word, hug them and encourage them when they are frustrated. It is so special to get to be a part of the process. I love it!
We have this years reading tree up and ready to go. This year we are using a paper tree from amazon. We are hoping my very talented sister will one day paint a beautiful tree with a child swinging in a swing sweeping over the wall. But for now the paper tree is perfect. 🙂
This particular tree comes with leaves, acorns and animals. We have decided to designate the acorns for level readers the kids read out loud to me, leaves for books the kids read on their own and animals to chapter books we read as a family together. (At least that is the plan as of today) 🙂
We are looking forward to seeing how full our tree gets over this next year. I hope to blog about our full reading tree next summer around this time.
Back to mental planning and getting things ready for our next year ahead. 🙂
Hectic Peace 