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My pastor in college would end the Sunday night service that way every week. The lights would go down, and he would start, "It's been a good day" and then recount all of what we learned and shared that day. It was awesome. I miss him; he was a fabulous preacher. We had a fairly productive school day. Spenser finished his history for the year, and is already ahead in math. We are finishing up our school year (ps gets out May 19 here, so we try to finish at the same time.) When they finish these lifepacs, we are going to do a unit on Georgia History and then be done. I may try to squeeze a little school int his summer, but I will have to be subtle about it LOL. Spenser and Reed are reading Charlotte's Web for language arts. It is the first time we have done a book study, and also the first time they have done something together. It is an experiment for next year, when I plan to use Mystery of History with both (or all?) of them and probably also use Christian Kids Explore Biology with both (all?) of them. I don't mean to exclude Sydney and Macy but since they are technically pre-school, I don't want to imply that they will be required to do anything for history or science. We are however working on letters and numbers and phonics, but only because they really like it. Macy surprised me by writing her name. She's only 3 for crying out loud. And I was very happy that Haley, my bf's little girl that comes for "school" could write her "H" today. Yea! I figure Sydney and Macy will listen in to some science and history and absorb a little of it. I bought A Reason for Handwriting K for Sydney for next year (on eBay) to see what its like. Apparently, for Kindergarten, its liek everything else LOL. But I am still planning to order the cursive book for Reed. I haevn't decided about Spenser yet. For 6th grade, does he need more formal handwriting training or is it ok to leave it out? not sure. He has nice handwriting when he is trying to make it look nice  I am planning to offer them some sort of reading incentive over the summer. I haven't worked out the kinks yet, but in order to keeo it even for their different ages/levels I am going to count minutes rather than books or pages or chapters. And they get credit for reading to the younger 2, as well as the younger 2. Sydney is starting to read little bitty sentences, and she loves the Rebus-type Bible that we have. I haven't figured out their rewards yet, but I am thinking dollar store stuff and then maybe a bigger prize at milestones. At night we are still reading LHOTP, and I have started a character study as well. We are working on thankfulness right now. Our memory verse is Eph 5:20, and we read the story of the 10 lepers. We learned the song also. "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-and 10, Jesus healed 10 lepers on that day." Each person learned "thank you" in a differnt language. And we are makign a thankfulness book. I think next we will do forgiveness. My kids have a hard time with "I'm sorry" and "you are forgiven." |
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