Yippee!

Today we finished Rod & Staff English 3. I am so thrilled to be done with this book its unbelievable. We've been doing 3 lessons per day, with her reading the lesson to herself. Then she'll do the corresponding workbook pages and that's all. It doesn't take very long, but she's so resistant to it and thinks she knows everything she doesn't bother to actually read it. So when it comes time to do the workbook she doesn't read the directions thoroughly and then I end up having to explain the lesson to her and the workbook directions. While I expect to do this with my 7 year old, having to do it with her is getting tiring. I really don't enjoy the thought of having to sit by her and explain every little thing. We already do that for math for all 3 of them and English for 2 of them. I'm running on fumes at this point. Tomorrow we'll start Learning Language Arts Through Literature Orange. We'll see how that works out for us.

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On a more cheerful note, math is going better today. I remembered we had these lap boards.
We used them for multiple digit addition and subtraction with great results. Bubba has had a hard time getting the correct answer, even though he understands the steps. The problem lies in his atrocious handwriting. He can't tell what number he wrote, and he can't tell where he wrote it. So, this has the columns for him to work it out on and he can erase numbers that aren't written legibly and rewrite them clearly. For my daughter, she can understand better where the numbers go. I need to remember these more often.

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We're still waiting on Math U See Primer for my 5 year old. We had a tornado in our area right when it shipped out and it got lost. So, the rep sent a second package, but inadvertently sent Beta instead of Primer. Now we're waiting on the third shipment. In the meantime I've been printing out online worksheets. She is just bursting at the seams to learn. When I tell the kids its time to start school, she dashes in and does all the work I have prepared for her before the other kids even get started. She can add 0-9 plus 0-2, and can count and write from 0-20. Her reading is going very well. We're on lesson 80 of OPGTTR and she's just started ETC book 3. Its amazing to me how much easier it is than it was with the other 2. Its not that I think she's more intelligent than the others, but she's so much like me that its easy for me to teach her. I can really understand why kids in a public or private school can fall behind easily.