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So This week we went with h is for Horses and ponies.lol Because Maddie is really into them right at the moment. Our week started out pretty normal we took a trip tot he library to select some fun books about horses and play for a bit. That's when it dawned on me, I am doing this whole home school thing wrong. I am going at it like a school teacher. Here is what Maddie needs to know to be successful in Kindergarten abc's sounds, big small etc and creating work for her to do. Instead if taking advantage of the fact the we are not in a school. we don't have to have a curriculum. The right brained girl in me hates to be organized but I really felt I needed a direction to keep up with her schooling. That's why we follow the alphabet as inspiration. This week being horses worked perfect for our new week in homeschooling the fun way! We headed out to a local historic farm close to the house to investigate horses and other farm animals. Mind you it was FREEZING! but toddlers don't pay attention to that stuff anyway. It was wonderful. We started with a hunt for horses. Along the Way we saw cows, sheep, pigs etc. The horses were all out in the pasture having some breakfast or working hard on the farm. Maddie loved the lamb and momma sheep in the barn. She said they were sooo fluffy,  I tried to snap pics but the barn is terribly dark. On our walk around the farm she noticed that the tree bark was really bumpy and we had to run sticks up and down and feel the bumps. Talk about student led activities. lol she directed everything we looked at.

On our way out the giant ponies as she referred to them were pulling wagons of hay and muck from the barns and the man stopped to let us pet Duke. She was so excited to feel his hair. And promptly explained that it was not beautiful and needed me to brush it for him. She was scared at first, no surprise; I mean even to a full grown adult a Clydesdale is no small pony. We had an excellent school week we even managed to squeeze in a duck feeding. They were loving us, guess many people don't get out in the winter to feed them. Did we trace stuff, nope, did we learn the letters int he word, nope, but we did discover where horses live and the sounds all their barnyard friends make. I figure she will get plenty of time to sing her ABC's and learn to write letters in school next year. My new philosophy is, does she love what we are doing and can she get this at school?

Because I am posting this for this week and last I need to add our i assignment. We slacked off this week as it was a bit stressful in our household but we covered the letter i. Made homemade banana ice cream for breakfast (yep breakfast), and investigated many different things around our neighborhood. Landon did a service project for the boy scouts food drive this weekend. He was a trooper according to my husband did the whole route by himself and never complained. He is so sweet.

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