Day 7 - Half day

A half day means, H did half her work, b/c I had phone calls to make during business hours. We still did our opening exercises, and then H practiced for voice lessons, and wrote her vocabulary words. Her hand writing has improved greatly, and so has her speed and accuracy. She didn't complain about having to write her words and definitions! A was content drawing pictures and coloring her abc's as always.

Day 6 - We have Saxon books!

I am ecstatic that the girl's math books and math manipulative sets have come! We started the morning with our opening prayer, the pledge of allegiance and the Sing, Spell, Read, and Write song. We went studied the letter sounds flash cards, and then I let A study them on her own. I thought the morning was going pretty well, until my 3 year old nephew had a #2 accident in his underwear. BTW, he is potty training with E. As soon as that was cleaned up, my 15 mo. nephew had a stinky diaper. After that was cleaned up, H and I started on her much anticipated books. She and I breezed through the first 2 lessons. For art, she designed the cover of her math notebook. Then it was time for writing vocabulary and spelling. H does NOT like writing. It took her 1 HOUR to write 11 words and definitions. She drew pictures on her paper. She played with anything in her reach. She asked if she could do the rest for homework. After reminding her that we had a play date at 12:00 and she had 15 minutes left, miraculously she finished 5 words and definitions in 15 minutes.

Our play date was with another homeschooling family that I had met on a walk in the park earlier in the week. I grow more confident in my ability to homeschool when I talk to other seasoned homeschool moms and they encourage me in my efforts and let me know that I am doing well.

Day 5 -Thrifty tears

This was 33% off all clothing at the Thrift Store day. H, A and E all came with me and we shopped for clothing for A and W. I had previous shopped with H earlier in the month and she received a lot of cute things, so this day, she had a responsibility of keeping a running total of our expenditures at the store. Several times when I would call out prices for her to write down, she would say, "Mom, just a minute. Here is a cute shirt. Can I have it?" If it was her size I would say, "Okay, but we are not shopping for you today. Would you please pick up your notebook and write down these prices please." Reluctantly she would comply. After 30 minutes of shopping her attention span was gone non-existent and she was had melted to a heap on the floor. She wanted to shop. She didn't want to add prices. I reasoned with her to no avail, so we ended our trip, much to her horror, because she had wanted to look for a pair of dress shoes. As we checked out she continued to defended herself by saying she was tired and just couldn't write anymore. I came her defense and said, "And since you are so tired, it would be unkind of me to make you walk anymore in search of dress shoes. We are going home so you can rest." Little did she know that her new maths books would be waiting on our front porch when we go home and her days of simple addition at he thrift store were over.

To her credit she admitted that she wasn't tired and lucky for her I was looking for a specific item that I did not find at that thrift store. So, we stopped by another thrift store and H was elated to find a pair of dress shoes that she liked.

Day 4 - Zoo

Fun!