Homeschooling Narrative – June 2024

Riva

Conversations

Reading

Activities

Jun 10 – 30-minute tennis lesson with coach Barb

Gymnastics camp with Esperanza and Mackenzie: June 17,18, 25, 27

School subjects

Maintaining Duolingo Math streak: fractions: understanding 2/6 + 3/6 = 5/6, not 5/12: used the tacos example. Riva eats 2(out of 6) pieces, plus Reyan eats 3(out of 6) pieces, which makes it 5(out of 6) pieces, not 5 out of 12.

Games

Catan Junior

Pop it word game to read words and score points

On the way(Car or routine conversations)

Household Tasks

Cutting mangoes and mushrooms with a sharp knife

Harvesting basil to help me cook

Spontaneous learning

Montessori Math beads

1000 chain, learning about cubes and squares.

We measured the 1000(10 cubed) and (729)9 cubed chains. Compared their lengths and the number of beads

We also measured the 100 chain and multiplied it by 10 to see if the length matched.

Extrapolations by Riva

Mom: 10x10x10 = 1000

Riva: 1x1x1 = 1

Mom: 10^3 = 1000

Riva: 10^2 = 100

Challenges

Field Trips

Lumeria- creating fairy wings and dragons

Projects

Riva worked on building her gem card game

Bead necklaces

Parenting

Reyan

Conversations

Reading

In May and June of 2024, we reinstated reading before bedtime as our routine. We had fallen off the wagon.

I loved reading the All Aboard book over and over.

Bob books

Activities

Collecting tennis balls with the mower when we played tennis- lesson with coach Barb or at Wailes tennis club

bike riding – Reyan has good control of his bike

June 11: 4th Birthday: Rey loved taking his bike to the skate park and riding up and down the slopes.

School subjects

Duolingo Math- Practice addition, multiplication, and simple fractions using the taco example.

Games

Catan Junior

Pop it word game to read words and score points- Reyan reads pre-k words quite well. He knows the sounds of all the letters and can now merge them to form the word sounds.

On the way(Car or routine conversations)

Household Tasks

Cutting mangoes and mushrooms with a sharp knife

Harvesting basil to help me cook

Spontaneous learning

Challenges

Field Trips

Lumeria

Jun 27th: Cove beach with Kailash and Sonia on

Projects

June 30th: Riva and Reyan learned about the Snap Circuits electrical circuit game at Kailash’s house. I ordered it for them right away. Spoiler alert—they loved it. More details are in the July narrative.

Parenting

Reyan wants to stay indoors most of the time. We have to “push” him to go outside. Once there, he has a good time.

Parents

We have been focusing a lot on decluttering and organizing the space to make it conducive to learning and enjoyment for the kids.

We set up hanging silks and bought Montessori materials from Nienhuis Montessori.