We Made It!

We made it through our first week of school!! Yeah!! It went relatively smoothly too. Madison started 4th grade work which this week was mostly review for her. She is doing a Bible Devotional, Handwriting, Spelling, Reading, English, and Math daily. On Tuesdays through Thursday we are also adding History and Science. One week we do History on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Science on Wednesdays. Then the next week we will do Science on Tuesdays and Thursdays and History on Wednesdays. I am hoping that will help us to get everything done in the end.

Madison's history is 3rd grade, but we started on the Bob Jones history late so we are catching up. We didn't start using the history curriculum until last year and we have read through the 1st grade book and the 2nd grade book. Its American History so I wanted to start at the beginning so we are still catching up. My thought is that if we go through the 3rd grade as we did the 2nd grade, we should be up to speed on 4th grade by Christmas. Then we will take our time with it and work through it as long as it takes..even if it goes into summer.

For science this year, we are determined to get through it. Science has been an easy subject to push aside for us and I don't want to do that this year. We purchased an Apologia Science book on Zoology which I think will engage both Madison and Cathryn. Its about land animals. My goal is to have Cathryn sit with us while we discuss the lessons and she can do the experiments with us.

Cathryn has been eager to start school too. She is doing really well with what she is willing to work on. I have the intentions to teach her to read (because she is ready) along with learning phonics and math. She is doing great with the phonics and math. She excitedly opens her books and diligently does the work. When it comes to the reading program, she says she doesn't want to do it. To help with her counting I made a chart with numbers up to 100 that we pull out each day and review. She read all the way through the chart the other day and announced that she had learned to read. She is content just knowing how to read numbers...lol...silly kid!

I will try again next week with the reading. I don't know what her issue is with the book that we have, but she closes it if I open it. Crazy...but I am not giving up!

So, all in all, it was a great first week back at school!!!