Living Life: Week 6

Well we completed week 6 today. For my youngest, it was a review week. I was so excited to hear him identify the letter A and B to me and tell me what sound they make. He has learned A-D so far and no he doesn't get them all right every time but he is really learning so much. Even though he makes our day go a little slower with his tantrums, coloring on walls, potty accidents, etc. It's so very rewarding to see him learning and the excitement in his eyes when he gets it right and he never lets a school day go by without reading his truck book and monkey book.

The "Princess" is still doing great on her phonics and I hope it continues to go well. She will try and read her second H.O.P. book on Monday and I think she'll do fine. Sometimes the b and the d's are a bit confusing to her but she'll get it. She also learned about the clouds this week, what they're made of and how it rains. She enjoyed going outside and looking at the clouds to determine if they were rain clouds or not.

My oldest son has never been a "school" person, which is partly why we homeschool so he's really starting to feel, we've been going at it for 6 weeks. However, I like to remind him, it could be worse, he could be back in a classroom, and he peps right up. I try and keep it fun as I can for him. He doesn't enjoy writing unless it's something that really interests him. This week in Language Arts, we worked on writing a personal narrative. He wrote one about our hamsters and he really enjoyed it. As a matter of fact, he wrote a whole page and was so proud of what and how much he wrote he had to go show it off to his sister. I think that's great!

Wednesday, we did our school work and then headed to park day with our local homeschool group. The kids had a blast playing with the other kids at the park. Then we had a picnic and played in the splash pad for a while. All in all, it's been a great week.