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Hump day!Finally it is Wednesday...half way until my husband is back home...sometime on Saturday...I need to look at his schedule to know for sure what time.We are finished with school for the week except for writing. Tomorrow we are heading out early for coffee and a bagel to Panera and taking our writing with us...we'll work the next lesson and have Friday off to do all those things I can't get to during the week. Brittany has worked 3 long days to get her work done. It is weird for us to be this "on schedule". It almost feels as if I have booked her too light but I haven't. She is working very hard and is managing her time really well. Last night, she couldn't sleep so she came downstairs and answered the last couple questions for her Dance Pedagogy class. That completed the work in that subject for the week. I have to say...I am in awe this year. I think back to the days when she was young...all the tears and yawning and not wanting to work and then the next day working and then the next day not...days that would make you want to give up...and yet I didn't. I knew...I just knew that someday she would outgrow all that normal kid stuff. I remember feeling that way with school don't you? At times at least. To have gotten her to this place where she digs into her books because she is deeply interested in the subject is worth all the head scratching work that I have done these last few weeks. She looked up at me during her Dance History class today and thanked me. What greater pay could I receive than to see her enjoying her studies. I am blessed each and every day and am savoring these moments and storing them in my heart forever. Blessings! What we're working on...We are currently working on the Civil War era...Ken Burns series The Civil War Biographies: Queen Victoria, A personal History by Christopher Hibbert Abraham Lincoln, A Life by Thomas Keneally The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman, Sarah Morgan Read aloud: Gone with the Wind American Literature: Uncle Tom's Cabin The Mentor book of Major American Poets Science: Dance Kinetics Math: Consumer This is keeping us plenty busy right now as Brittany's first dance competition is in two weeks...she'll be performing a Lyrical solo, 2 tap numbers and two Jazz/modern numbers. She also picked up another two classes to assist with...with adorable 2-3 year old babies and will be learning the special needs dance so that she can help them on stage with this years recital. I believe it is tap. She is keeping plenty busy with her teaching this year and loving every minute. I haven't posted what we do with our school day in quite a while...thought I'd use this so I can refer back to it... Happy Friday! One of our history notebook pages aka scrapbooked 
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