Runnels Rhapsody

Our Homeschooling Day

I only have a few minutes, but want to share two things that just happened today.

I've been working with DD (age 4) on the sounds letters make. She's doing very well and I know that I need to continue to work on phonics with her and she'll pick up reading very quickly. Today we were arranging our magnetic letters on the fridge to spell simple words - PAD was one. Then we changed the P to a B, to an F, to an R. When we read RAD, she said she wanted to spell the word "rattle." So she went and got the letter L and added it to RAD to spell RADL. I was impressed. She's definitely getting the letters and their sounds down!

The other thing that just sort of happened took place when we were eating some green seedless grapes. She asked what would happen if we squished the grapes. So we started squishing grapes into a grape juice / grape sauce mixture. She thought this was great fun, enjoying the experiment and even drinking the juice when it was all done.

I love to see learning take place as we just go about our regular living. What a great homeschooling day!