Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Hitting the Books

The cold weather is here, but no snow much to the disappointment of K&Z.

Winter means more group field trips (through REACH and another new local group) and more pen and pencil work.

Lately we've been working on cursive. We're using "Handwriting without Tears" and so far like it very much. It helps that there is no real rush about learning cursive, that the kids want to learn it and that my expectations are incredibly low. We do not have a family history of great penmanship, so legible is great!

We are reading more regularly at bedtime, with the early nights. In the middle of "The Dawn Treader" right now. It's our third Narnia book as we are reading them in the order written rather than in chronological order.

Math work has tremulously (on my part) begun again. In light of last year's freak out, we are going to do one page a week from the curriculum and use the computer games, board games and real life to fill out the rest of the week.

I also want to work in at least one science experiment a week, but haven't done that yet. Katie has been getting a good deal of science at Brownies, but Zack is feeling the lack of it in his work.

In other interests, Zack is all martial arts all the time and is giving his new punching bag regular beatings. Katie is using her new American Girl art set to learn more about colors and enjoying the paper dolls that also came with that kit.

I have been mesmerized by the new slideshow screen saver feature on my new computer. It plays random photos from my files for about 25 minutes and it's wonderful but is eating my time up like crazy!

Pete is currently on his way home from Provo.

And that's us today. Pete's on the phone, so I'm off!

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