Ahem. *cough* Yes well I meant to type this up timely but quite obviously didn’t quite make that goal.

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Still here? Okay! Let’s review what Jr. did between September 15th and September 30th.

One of the things I really enjoy about a couple of our curriculum choices is how well they work into a daily activity and routine. Jr. is continuing to move forward in with his handwriting and copywork. We’ve got an alternative schedule that is allowing me to put more heavy writing days on the technique days and to ease the writing requirement on copywork days. There are no complaints here from either of us and this system is suiting us well. Our copywork pages are alternating between a Happy Scribe book and some history related words. A bonus of the history related words is that Jr. has to look them up which has been good dictionary practice. I’m making him use our book rather than the computer.

We’re pleased with progress in math and grammar. Grammar just keeps building on itself but with such ease that there is no pain for Jr. He’s got an email pen pal which I think should help reinforce punctuation. Math is still his second favorite subject right after piano. Jr. has solid grasp of carrying and borrowing. To the point of being a little bored so it’s time to move on for the moment. Next up are a review of length and weight.

Favorites from this last couple of weeks in Science and History have been the map work along with cloud watching. We’re in one of those down periods for these two subjects.

What has Lil’B been doing?

Well Lil’B has been working on counting successfully past ten. He has all the numbers just not quite the correct order. It is frustrating him so he’d prefer not to count at all. But we’ve been finding lots of little ways to count things for practice. We’ve also started working with Lil’B on letter sounds. He’s still not one to tell you what he knows so for all I know he already has this knowledge. But review won’t hurt right? He is a challenge but such a joy when he’s interested and engaged. Read aloud time is by far his most schoolish activity. But he will spend many, many minutes coloring very detailed pictures. He’s even taken to grabbing a favorite action figure to act as a model. Anytime we do a science experiment, history map work or an art project he’s right there in the mix.

Thankfully Piano practice has been easier these past few weeks. We altered the schedule so that he’s practicing first then Jr. which has been a good change though Jr. does get ansy to be at the piano. Jr.’s been getting a healthy dose of “practicing our patience” lately!

Next up we have a two week break scheduled for the first part of October.

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