Homeschool and Emily

Emily has been working on her math and her multiplication. We did some flash cards and she started to tout the "Mom, this is too hard and I don't know the answer." So I patiently worked with her until she believed in herself and I KNEW she would get it right. She got the answers right and I had to tell her that she knows it isn't hard because she taught herself the concept of multiplication. She totally knows it and got it and her confidence was boosted when she saw that she did have the answers right. We did the Hooked on Math flash cards. And brought out her Math-U-See math blocks for her to visualize the problems. She is just like me in her audio visual learning.

We have also been working on her writing particularly with her holding a pencil correctly. She likes to hold the whole thing in her fist. And doesn't want to listen to me when I tell her to hold it the other way. I don't push too much when she gets obstinate with many things because she soon finds the correct way with our working together on things. But in this case, I have to push her. I don't want her creating habits that will be harder to break. And her other issue with writing we are working on is when she writes mixtures of upper and lower case letters in her words. Emily to her is always spelled with upper case L. She is really thriving in reading, but she has been doing it for so long. I still get amazed at how she takes a difficult and long word and can break it up so well to be able to figure it out. I don't know if her reading level is on a 2nd or 3rd grade. I am going to have to do another online evaluation soon just so I know where she is at. I know the books she is reading are in that level, but it will be nice to know.

Lindsey has been getting doses of starfall.com and Letter Factory. She walks around saying "The A says AHH" But kind of gets lost with the other letters. She recognizes by sight A,B, D, E, G, H, I, K, L, M, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, and Z. She mixes up M and W sometimes as well. She is doing so well. Things are going great right now. Emily's drama class is almost up. They are soon going to perform their play and Emily has memorized her lines and does really well with acting. Her interests recently has included dinosaurs and storms. She asked me the other day in the car "Mommy, do people have egg tooths?" HAHA! She read that birds have an egg tooth to break out of their shell and I had to tell her we don't have an egg tooth because we don't need one.