This homeschooler is officially done with his fourth pace for each subject. In less than a month, he has finished a total of 20 PACES. We are slowing down a bit even as we decided to make our Monday our day off from homeschool. It is also my husband’s day off, so we get to spend time together on Mondays. We hardly see him during the week. He is up to his neck with ministry work and teaching Bible class in Makati too.

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It is a given that at five years old, our son has not yet perfected his fine motor skills. But this does not mean that we will not pursue practicing his writing skills by doing his usual exercises incorporated in his subjects. Fine motor skills are physical skills that involve the ability to make small muscle movements and to tightly control muscle movement like tying shoe laces or writing.

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It was Monday last week when we trooped to Philippine Christian School of Tomorrow in Paranaque for my son’s retake on his Post-Test. We were pretty confident and hopeful that he will pass this time. His writing improved a great deal since his last exam.

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Goody Foot could help you learn – “Have a look, in a boo!”
Goody Foot took care of books – at the Book Nook
(sing to the tune of “London Bridge”)

It’s a Saturday and it was not exactly our intention to do some lessons today. But because we will get hold of Jed’s First Grade/Level PACES in the coming weeks yet, Jed already misses doing his lessons. Read this article »

It has been a while since I started hearing about Flip Video camcorders.  When we started homeschooling in 2009, it was the one thing I hope to have in hand to help us document our homeschooling journey. But when I checked if the HD model of Flip was already available in one of our local gadget stores, we were told that it wasn’t yet. What was then available was the SD model, if I remember right. As a newbie homeschooler then, I wanted to make use of something like Flip that can be handy for the times that I need document our homeschooling activities. If you happen to browse through my entries, I have a pretty large collection of uploaded homeschooling videos – from random lessons to milestones.

Here are a few of them:

Pledge of Allegiance to the Philippine Flag

Pledge Allegiance to the Christian Flag and The Bible

Jed Recites Psalm 100

Months of the Year

Wrapping Up This Week’s Animal Story

English Pace Activity for the Day

Reviewing the Creation Drill

Learning About Responsibility

Jed’ First Day of Graduation Rehearsals

Bible Reading Time

Our 5 year old Homeschooler Reads Monopoly Jr.

On Blending Words and Reading

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Whenever this little homeschooler would love to go playthe Wii Console or the XBox, he knows what he has to do before he can – read a book. More often than not I find him enjoying the  reading part that he gets one book after another from his library and totally forgetting about his wanting to play Wall-E game on the XBox.

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In just a few days we will be over and done with our last pace with our current curriculum – ABCs with Ace and Christi. This is the second program in the “preschool” curriculum of School of Tomorrow. The first being Preschool with Ace and Christi. Time flies so fast! After this program, we can go on right ahead and get on with the first level a.k.a. Grade 1.

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My son and I started with our Wheatgrass Project a month ago. We intended to blog about it. But swamped with work I am, which explains why I am backlogged to my neck when it comes to blog articles I have lined up. Even as this Wheatgrass Project is not exactly a part of the curriculum, I have incorporated it in the things he could learn about – even off class. He is amazed at how the wheatberries (seeds) sprout out roots and later grow real grass out of those tiny bits.

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Another focus of ABCs with Ace and Christi’s curriculum is to develop the preschooler’s fine motor skills. One of the exercises that encourage that is the writing exercises. Here is my son practicing his writing skills. He is doing better by the day. He’s currently done with two paces of Word Building and Animal Science and 1 pace of Math. Read this article »

Jed’s moving up day early this month marks a milestone not just in his life but ours as a family as well. The awards definitely got us elated, especially so that we have never expected that he’ll receive any. The next program that our son is to take this coming school year is ABCs with Ace and Christi.

ABCs with Ace and Christi is School of Tomorrow’s learning to read program. It is a multisensory, phonetics program. Just like the former program our son graduated from (Preschool with Ace in Christi). This particular program is designed to prepare the student for the individualized instruction of School of Tomorrow’s program, which was formerly known as Accelerated Christian Education (ACE). ABCs with Ace and Christi is used after a child is diagnosed as “ready to read” using the Reading Readiness Test.

I am confident that my son is going to breeze through this program. The former program he was enrolled in was so good that he now knows how to read! Jed even now knows how to spell correctly, up to six letter words! I am one proud Mama Teacher, that’s true. It can easily surpass the feeling of sending out birth announcements of sorts. I am one privileged parent and I am thoroughly loving home schooling to bits.

I guess the purpose why we’ll get him enrolled in the ABCs with Ace and Christi program despite him knowing how to read already is for mastery and for him to practice his writing skills more. And it would be a little too early if he’d jump to Grade 1 right away anyway. He’d get to that later this year.