Starting early!
Well, I had planned on starting early, just not until the end of the month. My boys were having melt downs. Even with friends over they seem to need some "down time". Connor mostly. I'm having him leave the room and do some school work. He did math so fast we did a whole chapter(which is one days work at school), he's reading right now, and did his grammar lesson for the day. We all did journaling and pictures after breakfast to get our minds going and get our scriptures in. It helped them actually listen to the scriptures and think about what they were going to draw(and for Connor, write about). We read in Helaman and they drew pictures of throwing swords into holes(for burying their weapons) and it was really cute. Even Evie drew a hole for her's. LOL. I love watching them learn and this is so much fun! I thought it would be a lot harder than it was. But once I had all their work and we spread it out through out the day, it was honestly VERY easy. Connor is pretty quick once he starts. Nathanael, he takes a while. Whatever it is. He realized I wasn't going to let him not finish today and just did it! I was really surprised. He went through his reading lesson(phonics type stuff) and did math REALLY fast and did his writing with out tears to get practice with his writing in. Yes I could have done that with out this specific book, but it helped me and he likes it! It is a kindergarten book so I don't feel bad even if he does K in public school next year, he'll be where he needs to be. He was just too young to go in this fall. I'm hoping to have him at more of a 1st grade level by the end of next summer. I'd like to keep him home for more home school as well, so long as he is reading by then. I think I'll just have to start a little earlier to get EVERYONE's schooling in before Aaron gets home. Which shouldn't be too hard since their school didn't take too long, I just haven't gotten to Evie's yet. Her's will be after Daddy gets home. Still not bad. I can't go anywhere anyways and I was planning on Monday being an "off" day in the summer. I'm just really excited that we started, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and right now everyone is happy and Connor is happily reading a book(the third one) to his friend Caitlyn. :)
OH! On a side note. We've been going EVERYWHERE, on mini-field trips all over the place. We went to the Rust Sanctuary and went hiking, park days, pool time. The kids loved it. Nathanael had a birthday! He's 5 now!
Well, I had planned on starting early, just not until the end of the month. My boys were having melt downs. Even with friends over they seem to need some "down time". Connor mostly. I'm having him leave the room and do some school work. He did math so fast we did a whole chapter(which is one days work at school), he's reading right now, and did his grammar lesson for the day. We all did journaling and pictures after breakfast to get our minds going and get our scriptures in. It helped them actually listen to the scriptures and think about what they were going to draw(and for Connor, write about). We read in Helaman and they drew pictures of throwing swords into holes(for burying their weapons) and it was really cute. Even Evie drew a hole for her's. LOL. I love watching them learn and this is so much fun! I thought it would be a lot harder than it was. But once I had all their work and we spread it out through out the day, it was honestly VERY easy. Connor is pretty quick once he starts. Nathanael, he takes a while. Whatever it is. He realized I wasn't going to let him not finish today and just did it! I was really surprised. He went through his reading lesson(phonics type stuff) and did math REALLY fast and did his writing with out tears to get practice with his writing in. Yes I could have done that with out this specific book, but it helped me and he likes it! It is a kindergarten book so I don't feel bad even if he does K in public school next year, he'll be where he needs to be. He was just too young to go in this fall. I'm hoping to have him at more of a 1st grade level by the end of next summer. I'd like to keep him home for more home school as well, so long as he is reading by then. I think I'll just have to start a little earlier to get EVERYONE's schooling in before Aaron gets home. Which shouldn't be too hard since their school didn't take too long, I just haven't gotten to Evie's yet. Her's will be after Daddy gets home. Still not bad. I can't go anywhere anyways and I was planning on Monday being an "off" day in the summer. I'm just really excited that we started, it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be and right now everyone is happy and Connor is happily reading a book(the third one) to his friend Caitlyn. :)
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