Monday, January 24, 2011

Awesome Give Away

Go enter to win this awesome personalized Atlas. :)

Confessions of a Homeschooler Atlas Giveaway

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Changes

Stay tuned and get pumped to see our new schooling system we are all so excited about. :)

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Adam writes his name. :)

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A lil more work on his "D" and he is set. :) So proud of him.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Math Lessons with Kadi - Carrying 3 Digit Numbers





She is such a doll. Did I mention she JUST learned how to carry yesterday? She had a blast doing her videos and asked if we can do it more often. Of course we can. :) I love letting her showcase the things she has learned, especially when it secretly helps her understand it and retain it. hehe

Stay tuned for more "Lessons" with Kadi. :)

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Math Lessons with Kadi - Carrying

Today Kadi will teach you how to carry numbers in addition problems. :)

Video #1 (28+28)


Video #2 (84+28)


Video #3 (45+37)


Video #4 (96+36)


PS I love her lil nervous habit of messing with her hair and ears. . and stepping up and down off the stool. :)

Friday, September 17, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Reading Assessment

Well after chatting with a friend yesterday it got me wondering exactly WHERE Kadi is in her reading. So after chatting with another friend about where/how to assess her I just started googling. I found quite a few sites. Went to two.

The first one was from Sound Reading and was very simple and just spoke some words and "nonsense" words. After hearing the word she had to choose from a dropdown menu and choose what she thought the word was. Here are her results from that one:
Reading Assessments

After seeing the results, I was like "no way". Soooo I didn't fully trust the results and looked into another more complicated test. I did this one thru www.Test4Free.com. Here are the results from that one:
Reading Assessment

The second one is a bit complicated to read since I had to make it smaller in order to fit it all on one screen. But the last few lines are the most important. . . .
Reading Assessment- clip

"Independent Reading Level*: 3rd grade
Instructional Reading Level**: 4th grade


* Independent Level: This is the level at which you can read by yourself with no help. You should choose books at this level to read for fun.

** Instructional Level: This is the level at which you should practice your reading strategies with help from a more experienced reader. to improve as a reader."


So according to these two test Kadi is reading at a 3rd-4th grade level. WOO HOO!