Everytime I introduce something new to James he throws a fit.  This morning was no exception.  We are reading "A Pair of Red Clogs" this week.  For the science part we decided to do weather telling for 2 weeks starting today.  I had them start writing the temperature, etc for today and he started in.  "This takes too long. I hate this. I don't want to do this." and so on.   I have to admit I didn't handle it well. (I should mention we'd been fighting all morning about reading, writing, etc. so by this point I'd had it)  So I took it out of his notebook, crumpled it and tossed it.  I said "Ok.  you don't have to do it." Welll... then it exploded.  He was screaming and crying and yelling at me. *sigh*  I yelled back at first til I realized it wasn't really going to do any good.  Then I got in his face, gently told him to stop yelling, pointed out that 1. he didn't want to do it and 2. he doesn't have to.  He didn't like that, but it calmed him down. He went in his room, pouted for a while, then came back out and apologized.  Then he asked to do it again, so we sat down and went over the weather for today and he's enjoying it now. *sigh*  I wonder if the battles will continue?  I need to figure out a good way to handle them when they start too.  Thankfully he is only in kindergarten, so other than reading/writing everything else can be skipped for a day if need be.

     On September 15th I mentioned that the caterpillar was getting ready to turn into his chryssalis.  Well, he fooled us... he jumped down and ate some more.  He turned on September 17th in the middle of the night.   Then Levi's caterpillar started hanging upside down on the morning on September 19th so we watched him ALL day.  Not more than an hour went by without us watching him.  I went to bed around 10, got up at midnight and peeked at him and sure enough... he waited til we were in bed to form his chryssalis. LOL!  I think he did that on purpose.  I really wanted to catch it on camera. *sigh*  So now we wait... soon they'll be butterflys!

     James is starting to do better with his reading!!  yay!  He's into 4 sentence paragraphs now.  He seems to be enjoying more now.  It was a struggle at first. He doesn't like to sit still and concentrate for very long. 

     Levi is doing well in his math.  He has completed 60 pages already!! 

     I've decided  that since Beth will be 4 soon she needs to do a little work.  I don't make her do much... I'm one of those people who believe they are only kids once so no need to push them.  But she's showing such a strong desire to be able to write her name and read a bit, so I'm introducing it to her now.  She usually sits with us while we do our FIAR anyway, so I just give her copy work after we're done reading. 

       The kids are doing their journaling now... that's why I have a few minutes here :)  For my schooling: I finally got feedback on my paper.  It was REALLY good feedback! Yay!  I just need to explain a few other things in it and then submit the final.  I also had my first birth a little over a week ago!  My SIL had a beautiful baby boy... after a long labor.  Both mom & baby are doing well.

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Posted by 5lilpeppers

It sounds like you are doing really well! Taking all the challenges and doing your best.
You probably will find that your little girl needs to do 'homework' too.
My Three year old girl is more demanding for learning than my boys were at her age.
I enjoy seeing how things are going for you. Thanks for sharing.
Jacinda

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Posted by Anonymous

Sounds like your school year is off to a good start. We are enjoying our first year inspite of the challenges at times.

Charlotte

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