The Best Laid Plans....

After much deliberation a few months ago, I had our homeschool journey for the next couple of years all planned out. Well, leave kids alone for a couple of months and they'll blow those plans to bits.

Jayden is still loving our unit studies. I can't say at this point how much she's learning, but the focus academically was to get her reading and writing more.... it's working! On the household side of things.... she made bread the other day and it turned out really good! We haven't done much more with that yet because Evie has been exceptionally clingy, and when she's not clingy she's into everything!!!

Julianna is having a hard time lately.... the responsibilities of being almost 4 are taxing to a little mind ;) But as far as school goes she's having a blast! Right on target for my plans!

Grace however, during the past couple of months when I was really focusing on Jayden, decided to just blossom! She's reading quite well, listening and comprehending super, and being quite bored with what I was doing with her. So I told her the new plan was to start Little Hearts For His Glory (Heart of Dakota) slowly in a few weeks. She said she wanted to start now, so I told her we could do a little bit today. I was thinking we might get halfway through one day of plans.... NOPE... in about 45 minutes, including an interruption, she had completed the whole day plus her awana verses. So, even my well thought out NEW plans have been upended and she'll progress full speed with LHFHG starting today.

Autumn/Leaves

We have finally started. I picked this week to "start back" at school. Of course Evie picked this week to be majorly clingy and have a fever :) So Jayden started back, Grace and Julianna had a little bit each day, and I survived!

Since Evie wasn't letting me put her down, we didn't get to do much cooking or cleaning. Jayden made bread one time, but that was it... we'll do more of that as the fall moves along!

Jayden has done a great amount of copywork, about 10 pages of math, and identified three leaves/trees from our yard. I had her pick three different leaves, do a rubbing of each one, write down the type of tree it was from along with three sentences about each one.

She also has done an acronym poem (beginner, it doesn't really make a poem) and a poem about Autumn. Here are her poems:

Little
Evergreen
Apple tree
Free to fall

Autumn

Hello falling leaves
Goodbye green leaves
Hello brown grass
Goodbye green grass
Hello cool
Goodbye hot sun
Hello hot fire
Goodbye air conditioner

She also finished reading the last two chapters in The Courage of Sarah Noble and I let her have a "break" in reading by just letting her read a Junie B Jones book for fun.

We are making a lapbook with the autumn/leaves theme. We will be working on this theme until about the middle of October. I'll post a picture of her lapbook when she is through with it. She still has a little fact book about leaves, alphabetical order work, some poems to memorize, and an essay to write on fall, as well as defining some vocabulary words and a few more poems to write.

It's awesome to have her begging to do school and having absolutely no complaining... I might schedule breaks for unit studies at different points in our curriculum for her....