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Cultivating the Colburn Kids
Feb. 11, 2007
February Already!
I am amazed how quickly this new is passing! Truly, I feel somedays that I will blink and these days of raising children will be gone before I am ready. Other times, usually when the house is a mess and we have lots of commitments to keep, it seems we will all stay stuck in whatever current rut we are in.
Currently we still have B wanting to stay up until midnight (or later!) reading. This has good points and bad....love that he reads so well and so much, but he and we need sleep! He will easily go through a Magic Tree House book (about 160 pages) in two hours and then go through three of those a day! He began reading the book Eragon and I had to read chapters ahead of him since it is an adult dragon book and I did not know what it held in store. He curiosity never ends and thus one day we abandoned our history plans since he wanted to know more about DNA. Who knows when he is supposed to get that (not in first grade I am betting) but I took out my old college Bio book and we spent the next hour going through the basics of DNA! Wow! Later that week we were at ballet and the attendance posters had some lines running across canceled classes. B looked at that and promptly told me it looked just like a DNA chain! And he was right!\
The girls are focusing upon HWT right now and will soon get back into MFW K. Miss O needs more work on lettering and finger grip while Miss K is just ready to go on and on with her letter writing! I am amazed how different they are and just love to see them at play. They will play princess and tea party for literally hours on end, sharing a dynamic so special to twins, feeding off of the other's joy and giving them joy in return. I am humbled, daily still, by having twins and the miracle of their relationship and it's effect upon our family. Miss K will "ready" stories to MIss O and it is wonderful to hear her imagination come out as she looks at the pictures and makes up words to go along with them.
I am ever busy, adding grad school to an increasingly busy time. Teaching Tues and Thurs at the preschool still works out well, though I sometimes worry that I am not giving it my all the way first year teachers do. I get frustrated that so few of my kids at age 4 and even 5 know the alphabet and feel great pressure to fulfill their parents' expectations that they are fully ready for public school K by this May. Two days a week does not give me enough time, they learn Tues and Thurs and forget by Mon and so we seem to move two steps forward, one back. So not all bad, but how i wish I could impliment more homeschool methods into our day.
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Feb. 13, 2007 - {{{hugs}}}