Last Quarter update for 2009

This quarter update is a little late because it appears I quit blogging in September.....


Drum roll please.....

Speech therapy is behind us! It was a long hard road but Sam is done and we couldn't be prouder of him.


As far a school there isn't much to talk about. We have a nice rhythm to our day. Big Sis' leaves for collegeat 9am and we head upstairs to do school work. Sam just sits at the table and gets to work.


Currently for Sam....


Math- Lesson 13 of MUS Beta. Math remains easy for Sam.


MFW 1--currently on lesson 111. This has been such a huge hit! Sam enjoys reading the Bible Reader. He does very well with all the lessons. He calls the writing portion the "hardest part of school" but he is doing well. A bonus for me is that it is completely open and go so very little planning for me.


Poetry/Memorization- IEW's Linguistic Development Through Poetry is another huge hit. Sam has memorized ten poems.


We did drop All About Spelling again but only because we were covering spelling with the phonics instruction in MFW 1. We will pick it back up when we complete the phonics with MFW 1 in the next few weeks.


The only minor change is that we are no longer reading a different selection on each day instead we pick a title and read it until it is complete.


We did organize our material using a modified workbox. I'm using these Sterilite drawers to organize our materials. Using the workbox system has completely eliminated all the "how much more" comments from Sam.


Currently for Charlotte...


In addition to all the activities that we do during the preschool years, we spend each day working with MFW Preschool materials and reading a selection from AO Year 0. She also participates in the books I'm reading aloud with Sam and listens in on his phonics lessons.

She has picked up quite a bit of phonics doing our very informal preschool. She knows many of the phonograms and can read .....a little. She is not going to need to work quite as hard as Sam with learning to read.

Plan for Winter Quarter...

---- Get ready to start MFW Adventures!

-----Do a quick review of All About Spelling book 1 and then start book 2.

-----Resist the urge to start MFW K with Charlotte before her 5th birthday. It does help that I lent it too a friend and do not anticipate having it returned until next fall!