Thanks for asking. I can't believe it's been a month already. What I'm amazed at is how much they don't know? Why aren't they born knowing how to count by 2s or knowing how to round up or down?
We're still trying to find a workable rhythm. This week, I'm going to try and swap some stuff around. Must six-year-olds be so wiggly and giggly and making weird noises when they are being taught?
My biggest challenge has been the weekends, particularly Sundays. Sunday is the night we start latest. I think trying to pack it all in: the errands, the ironing, the cooking for the week, swimming lessons, play dates; is a lot. And everything that doesn't get done on Saturday spills into Sunday, after church, which just makes Sundays insane. I even did a no church Sunday and that didn't help.
So I need to really work on the weekends. Maybe make a list on Fridays of what I want to accomplish on the weekends and if it's not on the list, it just doesn't get done.
Other than this are Sunday through Thursday schedule works well. I'm thinking outside of the school box. The world won't end if I read all the week's poems on one day to make time for math.
We were sailing through math, oh the joys of review, and then hit a brick wall at full speed. I realized we had hit new material. So we're still recovering from that. I was under the delusion that Jory was a math genius and for the rest of the year, we'd continue to watch the math DVD once on Sunday, then again on Monday, and he would just sail through it. I was sadly mistaken.
I thought we would do some reading in the car to and from daycare, but not really. The problem is two fold. On some days in our Odyssey, he will take on the persona of his former preemie baby sister, you had to practically be on top of her to hear her cry, and the same with Jory's reading. He was sitting in his sister's carseat directly behind me and I still can't hear what he's reading; which is odd because I hear him so clearly and loudly when he is scareing his sisters, declaring he's a monster, or telling them to leave his lego airplane alone. And the other problem is his Sonlight reading book is very rhymey, very, so it's hard for me to detect when he's skipping words - - Pat, the fat rat, sat on a hat on a mat - - because I'm too busy trying to hear through the rhyming to hear if the sentence makes sense.
I do recognize when we're on overload, so now art, health, and science have been regulated to the summer time. I couldn't take on any more reading or explaining time in our already busy night. Though thanks to the Godsend of education.com, I am printing out worksheets that have to do with science and art. I found one worksheet that combines language art and art. I LOVE IT! We found some great safety videos at the library that Jory and his sisters think are fun, so it's great to know he's learning something for health and he enjoys immensely.
So sadly sometimes his reading aloud is neglected some nights. I thought about having him read while I do dishes, but I use that time to have clean his room or get his stuff ready for the next day, or for bath time. I have found some books free on-line that aren't so rhymey that I will try to have him read to me in the car.
That's how we're doing,
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