Gratitude

I'm getting school into a routine finally. I changed my lesson plan write-up so it is easier to see what we all do together versus what each kid does separately. I hope that helps!

The highlight of the week has been the new gratitude notebooks. So far, we've been thankful for an imaginary friend, apples, Caleb's painted pumpkin, flowers, watching TV, and Mommy. Glad they found a place for me in there somewhere, lol!

Jimmy's math fast facts (aka speed drills in addition & subtraction) are getting tons better. He has been finishing his 1 minute drills with time left over to check his work, although he still gets intensely frustrated when he doesn't finish. My little nerd really loves story problems (aka word problems). He enjoys listening to the stories from our History book, but I never know how much he is retaining until he pulls some random fact out of the air during another discussion. "Oh, a nickname, just like Egypt renamed Nubia to Kush!" Jimmy still struggles a bit with reading; he gets too impatient to slowly sound out unfamiliar words. Just like Mommy, he wants to quickly finish the story to find out what happens next!

Caleb is doing very well in all of his subjects. Poor kid is having trouble sitting still during group listening (History & Psalms), but he's getting better. He loves memorizing the children's catechism (he's up to question #8), learning phonics sounds through our flash cards, and playing with all of the cool "toys" during math. He's having a blast with cut & paste work while I focus on Jimmy. It makes Jimmy jealous sometimes!

We skipped school on Wednesday to run some errands, which, ironically enough, included a trip to the teacher supply store. (I bought a demonstration thermometer, play money for math lessons, packs of red & green construction paper for Christmas art projects, and a new lesson plan book.)