of our first "official" homeschooling year (it ends the first week of June). C.O. has finished HWOT, and Maps, Graphs, Globes. We are most of the way through Saxon Math 1 now as well. We'll be about halfway through the spelling/vocabulary/phonics book, and Easy Word Families, so we'll start up with those next year, along with book 2 of Maps, Graphs, Globes, Saxon Math 2, and maybe the next book in HWOT. I'm glad it's gone as well as it has so far. Yesterday, we did our bookwork out on the back patio, and when we finished, C.O. stood up and started yelling "I love homeschool!". It was so cute, and rewarding! He also took his first spelling test yesterday. It's not a part of the HM language arts book, but I thought I'd try it, so I read the words out loud to him, and he wrote them down - up, us, cut, but, fun and run. He got them all right on the first try!
Today, as we had a meeting with his IST, I told him we'd take the rest of the day off from homeschooling. So, what did he do when we got home? Pulled out set 2 in the Bob Books, read 4 of them aloud to me voluntarily, and then amused himself with Boggle Junior for an hour. (Maybe there is something to unschooling/child-led education?) C.J. has been practicing writing all afternoon. She's determined to learn to write her own name so she can have her own library card. I could sign for one for her, but she wants to be like her big brother and sign her own name on the back. By the way, here's a useful link for those of you who use the library as much as we do - Library Elf. It alerts you to books on hold, books due, etc., and you can add more than one card to your account. Not all libraries are on the system, but luckily ours is, which will save me money on overdue fines, oops!
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