My older daughter turned 7 this week! She has learned so many things in the past year...

• She can get her face wet and dunk her head under water for swim. Still can't float. Maybe next year?
• She took off in reading. Her favorite book to read right now is Perfectly Martha about a dog that eats alphabet soup and the letters go straight to her brain. She is a talking dog - "Soup. The secret is soup" she says.
• She has developed a love of teaching. Right now she is trying to organize an outdoor science craft class that she would like to teach to other homeschoolers.
• She has grown in knowledge about God and the Bible. She can learn her AWANA verses very well now.
• She learned how to keep her bed dry at night. This was a huge accomplishment.
• She has gained in confidence - she loves to say Bible verses in front of a group of people. I have gotten many comments from other people about her confidence in a group.
• She can play all the games at gym time in AWANA. Gym was a big issue for us last year, but now she is a key player and plays her best!
• She promptly forgot all of her math from last year, LOL. We are doing basic, basic (really basic) math. She's currently struggling through the concept of subtraction up to 6, but only gets about half of the problems right! What happened?!? LOL. I think the alphabet portion of her brain pushed out the number part of her brain. If a dog can learn to talk by eating Alphabet Soup, is there such a thing as Numerical Soup? and so...
• We're working on developing a LOVE of math, instead of pushing facts...Fact practice is very short, but we've been adding lots of fun books like Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, or the I Hate Mathematics Book, which has a lot of cute mathy activities.
• She has developed her own creative ideas and wants to implement them for everything!