Little Oaks: LA Layers

Each day comes with a little LA but in different layers and Aiden, Gemma, Keiran, and Finn are all expected to write, print, read, and express ideas at their own level.

Copywork helps with memorization, spelling words, technicality of printing neatly, as well as getting in some scripture learning. This is Aiden's. He is a fast thinker and his pencil often has a hard time keeping up. He has been working on slowing down. He is a great speller so no problems there at all.

Gemma's lovely work. She is tactful and neat in all her work. She is still working on spelling rules a bit.

Keiran. We are ever so proud of Keiran. He has overcome some reading difficulty last year and needed glasses to help focus his eyes. This year already he is being brave when it comes to challenging himself to write longer. He is stepping up!

Finn is a force to be reckoned with. He is ready to learn and wants to be included at all times in this family school. He is learning to read with Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Here is his printing sample.

Each day we have half an hour silent reading. Each kid can pick their reader. This is Gemma's pick. There are six books of a collection in this one and she is flying through it. She chooses to read beyond the half hour and also reads in the evening before bed.

Aiden has finished reading through this pick your own adventure novel. Aiden has always been a great reader so no problems there! Trying to find some older series to engage him.

Keiran fell in love with Little Critters when he first started to read well after he got his glasses and so he wanted more of this collection. he read through these four stories.

Keiran picked this chapter book next. He also reads this series with mom in the evening.

Finn is so excited to already be reading some words. It is so fun to teach Kindergarten and the wonder of learning. He is picking up and remembering his letter sounds easily.

Some more scripture copywork... (These pages actually are from our science workbooks and correspond with biology lessons.)

Story development. We start the year with who, what, when, where, why, and how. Each week we are learning about one part of speech, playing a game, brainstorming that part of speech, and then adding a new draft to our story.

Keiran's brainstorming of nouns.