Practice home school day!

Today was the first day "practice" teaching my whole lessons to the little two.  It was great!  They loved it.  We got up and drove C to school, then came home to play with play dough for art time.  Then we went on and did our addition math game with the froggies.  A hit again for BOTH of them!  We had to do it a few times of course.  Then we did patterns with legos.  Which after a bit ended up being the huge TOWER of pattern legos.  It was taller than N!  Then it was lunch time already.  The most exciting part of the day for me was when N started adding with carrots and then subtracting with them too.  I love that I've taught him something already and he's working on it by himself and it's a game and FUN.  I don't remember school being a ton of fun, even thought I did/do love to learn.  Yesterday was a huge break through with reading that book.  It's really taught me how to work with N.  He was able to do his reading lesson, so much so that I snuck two in and he didn't end notice.  :D  Off to Costco after that for eggs and milk, not such a great time but they were selling BOB books.  (BOB books are a good resource to help your children learn to read.)  I was ecstatic.  LOL.  So we came home and read about 5 or 6 of them and now it's nap time.  I know I'm taking longer to get things done than a normal home schooling Mom and I'm sure it's because I don't really know how to condense the lessons yet or make them faster.  But they love it how it's going and I'm sure that we'll be reading more books tonight as well.  They just LOVE books.  Honestly if that would be all I could teach them, I'd be happy with just that.  I'm so grateful for this opportunity to teach my kids in such a fun and exciting way.  I'll be praying God gives me the strength to keep it interesting for them and teach them everything they need to learn.  Who knew you could have your kid learn addition with hopping up and down?!  We did that a little bit today too.  So long as everything seems like a game, N will do it and want to do more.  Thank goodness for the library and people who are in similar situations to mine and that they can WRITE!  LOL.  I KNOW I can't.  But this is a journal of our journey, and it's something I know I'll look back on later and be grateful that I did it.  I'm pooped!  Time to go read more books and learn better how to teach my children.