Jayden started Bigger Hearts For His Glory on Monday. She is doing the left side one day (history, Bible, poetry, music, and a rotating box that has vocabulary, timeline, geography, and art) and then the right side the next day (Cursive, grammar, story time, math, and science) both days she does her reading (DITHOR - fantasy genre right now) and dictation, which covers spelling, grammar, and handwriting. We'll keep on with this schedule for a couple more weeks. We'll take a break for a couple of weeks on the reading program after she finishes each genre. It takes four weeks to do each genre, so we'll do probably four weeks on two weeks off. Bigger Hearts is more suited for a 3rd grade program so we are going to go slowly this school year, probably moving to doing curriculum four days a week until she's 8, then we'll start going 5 days a week when her enrichment classes end.
Grace started Little Hearts For His Glory before Christmas and got through unit 2 day 4.... then we started the 1st grade options for the 3Rs and I had planned on it taking about two weeks for her to catch up. She caught up in three days! So today was her first "full" day of 1st grade level work :) She did a splendid job. We will go full speed and probably do school on Saturday's whenever they don't have an activity. I want to space her and Julianna out so that I'm not overlapping curriculum year after year.
Julianna LOVES her time to do school with just mommy. She flies through Little Hands to Heaven and the extra fine motor skill books we got her, so I know she's ready for more, but she's just not quite ready for the written part of the Kindergarten curriculum. She'll start that this next fall, and do the history, science, and Bible every other day. We'll pace out the 3Rs as she needs them. Maybe every day, maybe every other day, maybe some every day and some every other day :)
Evie started speaking in sentences today. She was playing chase with Jayden and backed up against me and said "ont nent me!!" (Don't get me!) and then they started playing hide and seek and she was "one, do, do, do, do" counting for Jayden to hide. Apparently she was cheating because Jayden said "no peeking!" and then Evie just laughed and laughed. She's quickly learning, so it won't be long before she's doing preschool work as well.
I absolutely love teaching my children. It's easy to say that on days/weeks that are going smoothly, but I even love it when things don't go so smoothly. We finished school today for all three of them in less than two hours. Evie is down for a nap now, and we will be playing games until she gets up. It's really awesome!
