One week down...many more to go!  :)

It all went really well!  Samantha loves her history so much that she moved into the 2nd weeks work already.  I told her she was welcome to work ahead AFTER she was done with her other assignments.

Today we did subjects/predictes in English.  It was fun to hear her explanation for why this was a sentence:  A great crowd of people.  "Because the people were crowding."   :)   So .... after we finished talking about why that is ONLY a "subject" we moved onto other fun sentences.  I still love Rod & Staff.  Such a great program and easy for me to teach.

I heard Samantha outside greeting her friends:  "Salvete!"   (A greeting in Latin.)  :)

For Matthew it was review day of the letters P, B, and M.  Oh boy.  I was really starting to get frustrated and I could see him really starting to lose it.  So I reigned myself in and started over.   Really had to apply a huge amount of patience.  We made it through the lesson with no tears (from either of us!) and in the end he was having a great time. 

Teaching children to read is not the most exciting thing in the world to me...ranks right up there with potty training....but when I put the letters b and a in front of Matthew and he blended them immediately...wow!   Makes me know it's all worth it.  :)   Course then he right on to blending the p and m also.  :)

Alex...my wonderful 2 year old.  He doesn't talk in real words yet.  Lots of weird sounds.  A while back we started watching the Signing Time DVDs.  They are wonderful.  Alex's sign language has really taken off.  He does it all the time now and there is so much less frustration on his part.  We had done some words from the beginning...we've done that with all the children....but he signs lots of things now.  We've been renting them from the library but I'm always having to return them and then request again.  Roy wants to just buy the whole set.  We're all learning a lot.