Starting to get the hang of it!

Well, it has been two weeks of homeschooling now and I finally feel like we are starting to get somewhere. Don't get me wrong, we have had a blast the last few weeks and I know that the boys are learning, but we have had some fights along the way. The last two days have been virtually fight free and the boys have been really excited about doing school.

This week we have worked on colors a little more. We focused on black, brown and white. Jonah often get black and white confused so we thought this would be good. We ate black olives, cauliflower, and chocolate for our snack and talked about the colors. We went for a walk and found things that were these colors.
We have also been focusing on safety along with the public schools green ribbon week. My sister is the PTA person over green ribbon week at her school and provided me with a lot of fun things to do.
For phonics work we have been playing a lot of games. One game that we played was one with a egg carton that I wrote the letters of the alphabet on the inside of the egg holder ( lol-I don't know what to call them) and the boys took turns tossing a marble into the carton to see what letter it landed in. They identified the letter and then had to say a word that began with that letter. They both did very well. I was very enlightened by there knowledge, and it was quite encouraging!
One of our favorite things that we do is our value of the week. This week we have been talking about communication. We have played games and discussed how we can talk and communicate our needs. It has been great. It is funny how kids always know the correct answers, but when it come down to it, they don't do it. I guess adults are the same way really.
They boys have also learned our family motto. They now know it by heart and we love to say it every day. Sometimes we say it like monsters and sometime like babies. It is really fun.
Today we started reviewing shapes. We did some painting with sponges that were cut into shapes. They boys had a lot of fun with that. So did I. I made a Christmas tree with presents and everything under it! Jonah also sat and wrote the number 1 for his writing practice.
All in all I think things are going really well!