most effective

We have been home schooling officially for a few weeks now.

At first it was so exciting we hit the ground running! Of course right after we were also hitting a lot of bumps in the road with unexpected "surprises" like family emergencies... But we kept on going!

Good thing for us we are on a 2 hour a day schedule, and an hour of it is reading at night!

But of all the fun activities we do (usually between 15 and 30 minutes long) the most effective learning activities seems to be Zeru's favorite, his Road game. This mixed with our nightly reading have really gotten him on a good start!

When we use the same "road signs" several times a week, he begins to remember the words very easily, and yesterday one of his worksheets was to add a word into the sentence.

The car is ______

with a list to choose from.

He read the sentence with no problem! Where as a month ago "car" was the only of those words he knew! We have been working on "useful" words on his Road game, which has really expanded his reading!

Today we will work on second tense Amharic. Adding an "arm" to several first tense Amharic letters.

We are still doing his calendar every week day while he is at the shop, and counting up to 30 in English and Amharic.