Jessica is blowing through the Explode the Code books...she has Get Ready, Get Set, and Go (along with Book One). The first three I listed are ease-in type books before they start doing blends.
She's done with Get Ready and halfway through Get Set. She really likes these books because they're more self-directed than the 100 Easy Lessons book.
Thank you Jenny!
Homeschooling mother guilt over non-reading kindergartner is absolved, for now.
Puppies are running about, chewing on everything, beating each other up (the female, Syntax, is way more dominant than Cipher, who whines and cries and carries on like a girl...constantly), and occasionally disappearing into the forest with Lhasa and giving us heart attacks. We missed church one day because Cipher went missing and we thought he was dead. Jay ran through the woods several times on our property, getting skeeter-bit by the busloads, and I turned out on the quad, looking for him on the back logging roads that abut our property.
Turns out he was hornet-stung and hunkered down. The girls went onto the porch around 730PM, yelling "Cipher!!!" and up he popped, screaming and crying, as is his wont.
Dogs. Argh.
Mom will be here -for sure - on July 15th. W00t!
The usual progression of craziness continues...Joshua's party on 06/13, leaving for Yellowstone on 06/27 (and coming back 07/05). Amish auction is the 12th! (both Jenny and I will be doing funky headcoverings for that, we may leave the boys at home)
School boots along for Joshua, he has one week left after this one. Finally! He's as stoked as I am to have an actual real "summer" for a change. He'll likely do penmanship through the summer, and may do some math if I get through grading and think he needs it. Most of his mistakes are speed-related rather than content-related. Some things never change.
/rant on
I must admit, I'm growing VERY tired of saying, "GET BACK TO WORK!" five hundred times a day.
He thinks that because he's homeschooled:
he can pop out and ask me a thousand questions (none about schoolwork)
and get up and down and up and down and up and down and up again
and talktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalktalk nonstop about...you know...anything
and let the dog in and let the dog out and then ooops, play with her a little bit
and get a drink
and then some ice
and then a drink with some ice
and go to the bathroom
five times
and tell Jessica when her birthday is
and then tell Sarah
and then let Hannah know too
and look for the puppies
and then ooops, play with them a little bit
and see what the radar says for rain
and then complain to me that it's not going to rain for a week (or that it will rain tomorrow)
and call his Dad about Subway for dinner (nine hours from now)
and then give me a suggestion about dinner when Dad says he doesn't want to pick up Subway
and then complain about what I'm making for dinner
and kill a bug with the flyswatter
and then show it to the girls
all of them
even Hannah
and check on how many dishes he has to do
and then complain that I work him too hard
and on and on and on and on...
and do pretty much anything at all to get out of working.
Can you tell this irritates me?
Pictures next time.
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