Magnet Board!!

Today we played around a bunch more with the magnet board. We've essentially gone through lesson 73 in the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. Mane was already familiar with silent "e" and most of the two-letter words. She read the first Bob Book from set C, also, which begins working with silent "e" words and a few more sight words.

It seems that the magnet board is really the way to go. Mane has always been a kinesthetic learner. So, it's no surprise that manipulating letters on a board is both more fun for her and helps her to learn better. She can stick with a lesson a lot longer, too.



Here she is working on a food pyramid:


And our timeline:


The trouble is that now we need the timeline to go way, WAY back, and we only went back to A.D.!

In keeping with our studies of nomads & ancient culture we read the book One Small Blue Bead by Byrd Baylor today:


It's the story/poem of a boy who volunteers to take over the work of an older man in his tribe while the man goes off to look for other tribes of people. The boy's tribe doesn't believe other people exist, but the boy dreams of there being other people out there. There's quite a bit of historical information in the story about hunting and nomadic life. It was a fitting read for our current studies.