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Aug. 15, 2006

The EASY Button

Apparently I spoke to soon about math going smoothly.  I am unable to understand how he can forget from one day to the next.  It is driving me crazy!!  I think I need one of those EASY buttons from Staples.  I have the Saxon Math book ready to see if we just need a different approach.  But he insists that he wants to stick with MUS.  So we are giving it one more week.  If it doesn’t start clicking, we are switching.  At least until I get that EASY button.

I did a lot of reading today.  I read from Children’s History of the World about the Benedictine Monks.  I read two more chapters in Otto of the Silver Hand.  I read a book about Saint Nicholas.  I read two chapters of Pagoo. The kids hate to stop that one!  That is a lot of reading aloud for my still-sort-of-weird-bells-palsy mouth!  I am so grateful for books on tape!  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is an online resource from my library. I didn’t even have to check it out.  It just downloads onto my computer.  So handy!

Latin and Spanish continue to be fun for us all.  And I am still in amazement that they love grammar and spelling!  The Easy Grammar and Spelling Power are proving to give a big bang for the time spent.  It really has been a wonderful addition to our school day.  

The boys started back to tennis today.  Actually it is Connor’s first class, but he went to tennis camp this summer and of course he is out there learning from Dad a couple of days each week.  I was really surprised to see how much Zachary has improved.  I haven’t been going out to hit with them these last couple of months because of the bad air quality and my asthma.  I am looking forward to seeing how well they do in ALTA this fall.  For all of you not in Atlanta, ALTA is the biggest recreational tennis organization in the country.  Basically for me it means a lot a driving!  But I love to see them out there playing and I am sure it makes Sung proud.

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Aug. 16, 2006 - big box

Posted by Anonymous
i am mailing you a big box of homeshool stuff. Singapore is in there too.. SWITCH HIM! SWITCH HIM! If it is not working, um....IT ISN'T WORKING. Math should not be work....you gotta finda way for him to learn and like it. UMM...did i mention...SWITCH HIM!!!!

OK - you are gonna love the box-O-stuff. You owe me a HUGE HUG!

Love, love, love,
laura

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