Addy and Dori

This is me and Dori. We made necklaces out of paperclips. We learned that each paperclip is one unit.

Note from Mom: Hey, who has my name for Christmas? I could use a new box of paperclips. This project took them all and now the girls don't want to give them back. We were doing a unit on measurement in our Singapore Primary Mathematics 1A book. We learned about measuring by household units, then progressed to standard measuring tools such as a ruler. And then we made paperclip jewelry. Why not?

Addy makes words

This is me, Addy. I am building compound words out of the cards that Mama wrote — the beginning and the ending.

Note from Mom: We use Explode the Code for our phonics learning. We're on Book 4. Addy was bored with the worksheets that day, so I turned the same thing into something a little more interesting.

Addy finishes books

I finished Homer Price. After that, we read Mr. Popper's Penguins. Now we're on Mountain Born.

I would recommend Homer Price to a kid who likes to read about adventures. I would recommend Mr. Popper's Penguins to a kid who likes to read about penguins.

Homer Price is a kid who is good at building TVs and saving people from robbers and finding out who other people are. My favorite chapter was about when Homer Price found some formula to making medicine.

Mr. Popper's Penguins was a book about Mr. Popper got a penguin sent to him in a little box with holes in it and then that penguin got kind of sick and he called someone who had another penguin and his was a little bit feeling sick, too, and they both wondered if it was because they had no one to play with, and then they had 10 eggs and then Mr. Popper and Mrs. Popper trained all those penguins to each do something special. The penguins performed lots of times.

I read classic literature to Addy as part of her Sonlight Core 1 curriculum. We study about two per month.