new stuff

I'm really excited about things lately. We're getting close to the end of our school year. Jacob has mostly phonics and writing review through the end of the year. So we'll be able to use some time to get into some other stuff. In math, he's working on multiplication and division.

Joshua has really come a long way with his reading. He's working on 1st grade level phonics. I'm really proud of the effort he's been putting into it lately. I think he understands the concepts of adding and subtracting, but still needs practice. Partly because he's lazy and doesn't want to think about counting up or down.

Leanna can count objects to five all on her own! She's also working on phonics, learning all the letter sounds. She can almost sing the ABC song all the way through without help.

We just started reading The Chronicles of Narnia. We're going to make kind of a unit study of it and stick some science and social studies in with the literature. The kids are all enjoying the story and Jacob is learning some great new words. We also watched some youtube clips about WWII and got to hear an air raid siren. The kids all designed a map of their own imaginary country. We're also planning on making Turkish delight.

The best part is that Jacob is able to read it on his own, with little to no trouble. He has great reading skills and we're very proud of the level he's at.