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Another week has flown by. I'm so excited as we're staying right on schedule & will be done 1/4 of the work by the end of September!! WOOHOO!! That is a great feeling, yk?! This morning was the first morning that James really didn't want to do school. He complained, but I sent him into the kitchen anyway and once we got started he did fine. He even scored higher on his spelling test than Levi did on his, so he was proud of himself for that. LOL! I try to remind them it's not a competition, but when you have 2 boys only 13 months apart it seems everything is a competition. Still not sure what to do w/ Art. My friend suggested we pick an artist/week. Study the artist, his/her style, country, etc. I think that sounds like fun and am thinking of putting that into action. If I can sit down and have an hour or so I can probably come up w/ a few months worth of art in one sitting. I should probably just do it. The kids keep asking "What are we doing for art"... but so far it's just painting techniques and making crafts. I want it to be more than that though. I'm pretty satisfied with the A Beka curriculum. The colorful pages and the animals on them make it more fun for the kids too. They seem to be learning what they need to learn. James doesn't like it that they put "girly" stuff in them though and thinks they ought to make a boy curriculum and a girl curriculum. They need to keep all dolls, brides, dresses, etc out of the boys curriculum. LOL! He's at such a funny stage where "Girls have cooties". Though he has decided to marry my friends daughter and says when he's off on his archeology adventures his wife will stay home with the kids. I know I keep saying this... but I cannot believe how much James' reading is improving! He doesn't realize that every bit of reading in his school work is really helping him... he complains about it, but I keep pointing out how much better he's getting every day. I found a set of 4 Little Bear books and 4 Frog & Toad books at Sams Club and he jumped right into the LIttle Bear books (anything w/ bears is exciting, you know! *grin*) I love it when the reading just suddenly 'clicks' and it's less of a struggle. Still no word on the paperwork, so I called this morning. The superintendant was in a class, so I'm waiting for his call back. I hope it's just an oversight. The only issue may be my final report last school year. I had no idea what to do so I wrote a report on Levi's schooling... but then my printer was out of ink & I needed to get it taken care of asap, so I hand wrote it. *sigh* I hope it's not an issue.... but we'll see. It still shouldn't have affected my Intent to Homeschool letter for this year though.
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