Getting organized

We have been trying to do some 'school work' lately. I think the kids need a little structure, maybe it's me that needs it but they love to do 'school work'.

I found some bins to put their stuff in. Hannah found her beads and wanted to work with them. She decided that she needed to organize them first. So she pulled everything out of it, cleaned out the little box and put everything back in, sorted, all neat and organized "in their spots".

Ben worked on 3-letter words. He has a ring that has a bunch of notecards on it with words with pictures. He put the 3 cards together and then copied it onto his card and drew a picture of the item or animal. His first word was "zoo" then came "cat", "dog" and son on. I think he really wants to learn to read. He has been working on sounds of letters for a couple of weeks pretty consistently. Always asking about the sounds, to hear them and say them over and over. It isn't very often that he wants to write them but I suggested that today and he seemed pretty interested in that. Now he has a nice-sized flip book of short and longer words that he can read. A couple of years ago he started asking about what sound that letter makes but it wasn't as intense as it is now.