Another busy week has come to a close here in East Tennessee.
The last time I had a chance to post anything we were coming up on my sweet girl's 9th birthday sleepover. The girls had a great time, and I survived...Well, only after making the ultimate mom faux pas of sitting in the room with the girls so they would be quiet and finally go to sleep. Oops bad mommy! She has forgiven me though, I think...
Our weather is definitely getting a "Fall" feel, with cooler evening and morning tempuratures. Which makes for excellent morning and evening porch time. It actually makes for great outdoor school work days too. (which I will take any day over being cooped up inside)
We are trucking right along in all of our studies. We are actually bouncing around in History this year. Which has been kind of fun. #1 son seems to really like studying about wars so we are learning about WWII at the moment. We are learning about Anne Frank and the Holocaust and will watch the Anne Frank movie next week.
A few weeks ago I ordered Reading books and workbooks from Christian Light to use this year. I have been so pleased with them. The kids seem to enjoy the stories and I love the questions and vocabulary stuff in the workbooks. The boy even read a poem titled Rebellion In September that he really liked! It was fun having him come up and say "Mom, you have to hear this!"
I think I have turned into the Mean Math Mom. I am having the boy do a math lesson everyday for a while. (even weekends - I know, I know Mean Math Mom). Hopefully, the everyday practice will increase his confidence. He has improved so much in the last few months, but constantly questions himself - even the things that he knows how to do. We'll see in a couple weeks if it has helped.
April
