Wrap Up--Weeks 1-3

We are now into week four of this school year, and finally settling into a pattern. Once again, I really love Sonlight's use of literature. Jewel's absolute favorite things we are doing is Missionary Stories with the Millers and From Abeku to Zapotec, both about mission work in the world. I love watching her eyes light up as we discuss how people are serving God. She has memorized Psalm 1:1-4 and we are working on verses 5 and 6. Even Flower has the Psalm almost completely memorized. Jewel does all of the Bible reading now, or alternates verses with me. She is proud of herself that she can read the words, and is so excited when she reads a story that she remembers from Sunday School. We continue to work on handwriting and spelling rules. She is still fighting against any creative writing, saying she can't make things up. Of course I know that isn't true because she engages in imaginative play all the time. Just need to find a way for her to bridge it from play to the school time. We are 2/3 the way through Charlotte's Web and both girls are enjoying it as well. Flower is enjoying her Get Ready for the Code workbooks and is so proud that she has learned to write "f" and "b." It is so cute to see them connect things for the first time! I've dropped German from Flower's regimem right now since she was just not ready for it. Jewel continues to enjoy German. In fact, she is two lessons ahead of me so I need to catch up. lol

Last week we took a day off to go to see Beauty and the Beast on stage. Really great show! Jewel was fascinated with the stage changes and how they brought things to "life." I also gave them a day off when I hosted a Pampered Chef party. Instead we practiced social skills and they happily helped entertain the guests and helped with the cooking demonstration. That was school in and of itself.

The math books finally arrived so we added Math to the mix this week. We are one science experiment behind in the curriculum, so I need to catch that up today. Otherwise, things are going right according to plan. YAY!