School Update

We took two days off of school this week, once for my birthday and once because I was gone for the day, and Dave was in charge. BUT, in the overall scheme of things we are plugging along quite well in my goals for this year. Caleb has about 10-11 pages left in his kindergarten phonics workbook. He is reading Level 1 readers and is starting to read for enjoyment as well as when I make him for school. He finished his kindergarten handwriting book and will certainly finish his 1st grade one before school is out this year. In math, he just completed lesson 20 out of 32 in his first grade math book. He really has learned and developed SO much this year.

Alexa is keeping busy as well. She loves tracing letters, gluing and cutting, and working on her "school pages" with Mommy. She has learned how to count to about 12, which is where she gets lost and starts making up numbers. She also can write her name and identify most letters.
Here she is playing with pattern blocks.
Together, we have been working on memorizing Catechism questions since we finished the Apostle's Creed. We're still learning a Bible verse and a hymn each week although we are going to take this coming week to review all of our verses. I have been encouraging the kids to pray out loud during our morning Bible time, and it has been interesting to see what comes out of their mouths. We've spent the last week and a half reading a selection of Aesop's Fables, and tomorrow we will be starting Pippi Longstocking. Overall, it's been a great school year so far.