Our Second Week of Preschool...

Well, we've finished our 2nd week of preschool, and Nicholas is still excited about it. He comes down every morning excited about his 2-3 daily worksheets I put out for him on his desk. In doing his morning worksheets, I'm not only learning what Nicholas does and does not know, I'm learning what he likes to do. For example, one day I didn't put any math worksheets out(they were planets and other questions), and he was upset that there was not a math page so I quickly created one. So now, I always make sure one of the pages is a math page. I'm trying to do a worksheet of math, a worksheet of something new, and then a "review" worksheet to include questions he got incorrect on prior days to see if he now knows them. It's been working out great!

The greatest part about homeschooling this week is that Grandma and Grandpa Klein came to visit, and we didn't have to worry about taking him to a school where they would miss seeing him for some time(especially since they were only here for a few days). We were able to work around our schedule and do activities at different times when necessary. The flexibility is wonderful! And...I also liked that Grandpa got to do science with him, and I got a little break! Yay!

This week we did a couple art projects. One was creating a scrapbook of grandma and grandpa's trip out to Cali. Grandpa emailed every night the amount of miles they drove, what city/state they were staying in for the night, and a little info about the city. We printed out the email and cut and pasted it onto construction paper. We printed out a blank map and plotted out their drive/stops/miles. After the 8 days, we hole punched all the pages and tied them together to complete our book. It was great because not only did Nicholas learn how to make a little book, but he was practicing cutting with scissors, glueing with a glue stick, and even got to press down on the three hole punch which he thought was super cool! ...and he learned about cities, states, miles, days of the week(counting), and so much more. We're planning on also printing out the pictures they sent us from their drive and adding them to the book this week.

Here are pictures from the Art Project:

Our second project was going out to buy a binder and sheet protectors, and a hole punch from Staples. This was to put together all the work we've done so far since preschool started. Now we have everything in a nice organized place to look back on. Nicholas got to decorate his preschool binder with crayons which was fun.

Here are some more pictures from our second week of preschool:

One of the most difficult things with homeschooling Nicholas is dealing with both him and Isabella together. Isabella is a cat napper and needs to constantly eat and be changed. This leaves Nicholas to be on his own a lot...and he does NOT like playing by himself...nor does he really know how to play on his own. That is one of our goals and we're finding out that he is starting to be okay to play on his own with Lego's, marble runs, and snap circuits.


Here's a picture of him building a marble run while I was making dinner:

All in All, it was a good week. He definitely got lots of attention from Grandma and Grandpa this past week so I anticipate this week to be a bit of a challenge and him getting upset on having to be on his own a lot. Fingers crossed on me keeping my sanity and getting through it :)

Our plan for this week: We're hoping to get 1 or 2 play dates in to socialize him. Hoping the triple digit heat goes away so we can get some outside time....and I'm also planning on buying a small patio greenhouse so we can start planting some herbs and teaching him about plants and their lifecycle...
We will also continue our daily worksheets, reading workbook, etc...and maybe get into making a volcano for our science project...and of course, receive emails form Grandpa each night about their trip back to South Carolina and making another scrapbook with all the new cities, miles, etc...

Thanks for reading about our second week's journey! :)