Not very good at this

Well I am already proving that I'm not very good at blogging our homeschool journey. I'm sure it will get better. Still just working through the Sonlight schedule. We did add the HWT workbook last week and Jewel loves it. Her straight lines have already improved and she is making L's and F's every chance she gets. We hit a snag in SEBM in that it asked the student to write numbers in the exercise. Jewel hasn't quite learned how to write her numbers. So we took 2 days off the workbook and learned to write numbers. She can write 1-9 minus 5. We practiced that some more yesterday in addition to the workbook. She loves sitting beside me on the couch while I cross stitch (usually bothering me). So yesterday I handed her a magnetic doodle board and said, while I stitch you can show me your numbers and letters. She practiced for 40 minutes!

Flower is less of a distraction this week. Friday a week ago she decided to learn how to build block towers. She had been just lining the blocks up on the floor. But that day she built a tower 4 blocks high. On Sunday she built one 7 blocks high! So now she builds towers while we do school. Here's a picture of one of her first towers.



Over the weekend my dear husband gave me a day at a Women's Bible Conference with friends. It was the first time I had ever left the girls for an entire day with him and just went with friends. I had a great time. But Jewel insisted that it was a school day. So he was able to review everything we had worked on during the week. She told him which books and which stories and showed off for him. He was pleased with how she is doing. And she was thrilled that Daddy helped with school.

Off to get ready for another day....