Sep. 15, 2008
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It has been hard to get back into the school year this time around. We were excited for school to start, I had so many plans, but it has been harder than usual easing into that routine. One good thing already I see happening this year is my six year old is learning to read. Beautifully, easily, and taking a lot of pleasure in it. I think teaching children to read is my favorite part of teaching my own. Perhaps because books mean so much to me personally. It is a joy to share that with them. She is the seventh child I have taught to read! I am just amazed by that. The first four were rather easy, even though I was not sure of myself at all during the first two. My middle children both are dyslexic, something that comes with gifts and challenges.........mostly gifts I think. But reading is under the challenge part of that. It was a struggle but now, they are both reading so well. Smart, curious, engaged boys. So now, I am teaching my little princess to read. I waited a bit longer with her, mostly because I was still working with her older brothers. I felt a touch of dread, just a touch, wondering how will this one go? Seeing her little face light up with joy as the story continues page after page and she is still reading, still doing well is a wonderful thing. We did have a bit of a field trip last week. Dad had the day off unexpectedly so we headed off into the mountains. Not sure what we were going to do, but knowing that there were more things than we could get around to, we ended up visiting a fossil bed of redwood trees (did you know fossils are more than dinosaurs? lol......wasn't quite expecting that), an old pioneer homestead, a dinosaur museum!, and a chocolate factory, which has become my very favorite place. LOL We tried to visit a wolf sanctuary, but they were closed. We did see some wolves, and a fox through the fence. They howled at us and tracked the movements of the little ones. That was creepy! My goals for today are to have a science lesson/exploration, do the basic math/grammar/reading work, and sit down together to read a good book. And have chores done. And work on the laundry. And clean the kitchen. And subscribe to Netflix and renew our magazine subscriptions. Good luck to me in being ordered enough to finish all that! Start with the schoolwork first though and spread out from there................ |
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