Herbivores eats plants not shoes!

Creed eased into homeschool like no time had been lost. We started the morning with the Usborne color and shape sticker books. After that mama and daddy and itty bitty went to the gym. One great thing we've got going for us is a gym that has childcare included. Our new year's resolution is to collectively exercise, spending more time outside and eat as healthy as possible, which also includes giving up pop altogether. :-( After our workout we headed home and resumed homeschool after nap time. 

The Learning Journey, Match-It! Mathmatics game

Creed and I were taking turns playing games. He started with dinosaur puppets. We had a fun lengthy banter between mama Triceratops, baby Triceratops, T-rex and Diplodocus. Creed explained how the Diplodocus had flat teeth and that meant he was a Herbivore, which means he eats plants, not shoes! Next up was T-Rex's sharp teeth. That means he's a Carnivore and eats meat. I asked if he thought the T-Rex could be friends with the Triceratops and he said no, they eat meat! 

My turn. We found a great game at Goodwill for $1.99. The Learning Journey, Match-It! Mathematics is a great start for learning simple addition and subtraction. The puzzle set includes 30 pieces that are self-correcting. The addition seemed easy enough for him, while the subtraction was a bit difficult. Explaining plus and minus, addition and subtraction, adding and taking away, was a little difficult for me. I've always wondered how I'm going to teach math when I wasn't very good at it myself. The great thing is we're just starting and as time goes on we will learn together. The even greater thing is daddy's awesome at math, so we'll do some tag-team homeschooling. 

Creed's turn. He chose to play the pointer game, which is taking the pointer and pointing and identifying the alphabet, opposites, positions and numbers. Plus he knows he gets a sweet tart for right answers. After that he wanted to write! This was something I was dreading but he totally took the lead. Today he wrote the uppercase E, F, and Z, after that homeschool was clearly over when he suggested he play the computer. He said he couldn't find the pbskids.org. After we logged in I set the homepage to pbskids.org. He loves Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. I love the fact that he's learning so many new things, including using motor skills using the mouse and keyboard, while he's clearly having fun. 

So we're off and running again and mama can breathe a sigh of relief!