Texas Homeschooling Mommy

Frustration

2009-03-03T10:57:00.002-06:00

Last week I was very excited about a new book I bought for Ethan: Little Hands Celebrate America. The activities looked simple and like something he would really be interested in doing. As a matter of fact, as I was searching Amazon for books to check out at the library to supplement the activities, he took the book and just soaked it in. He was fascinated, and we couldn't wait to get started.

Imagine our disappointment, then, when we went to our closest library (our town doesn't have its own) only to find that, out of a list of 12 books, they had not a single one of them. I pulled out a few on the same subjects, just whatever they had, based solely on the title on the spine, but upon getting them home, I was disappointed in the quality. There is exactly ONE book of the 7 we brought home, that we will actually use.

That afternoon while the children "napped" (I use that term VERY loosely), I went on the TX library website, to see about inter-library loans. I entered the information for the first book on the list, and lo and behold, there it was! Happily, I asked for it, and moved on to the next book. Found it...but wait! You can only do one book at a time through this program. Not only that, but I found out this morning the turnaround could take up to several weeks. So...scratch that.

My next option was to try the library in the city. The City of Tyler's library is really just for residents of the city itself (the one closest to us, in Bullard, gives a card to any TX resident). If you live in another town, Tyler's library doesn't let you borrow, but lets you "rent" books at 50 cents a pop. And I was going to break down and consider it part of our homeschooling cost, when I searched their catalog and found, again, NONE of the books that I wanted.

Because I am a glutton for punishment, just out of curiosity I went to the website of the library system where I used to live in a Metro Atlanta county. Sure enough, I scored with every entry. Multiple copies, at several libraries throughout the system. I could have cried.

Hopping on eBay, I toyed with the idea of BUYING the books,thinking that if I could buy enough from one seller I could combine the shipping. That didn't work out so well.

So...here I am, stuck.

What to do, what to do? Lower my standards, I suppose, and just take whatever I can find at the Tyler library, paying for the privilege, since Bullard is worthless.

Anyone else trying to home school in a smaller town or city? How do you work around the problem of a second-rate library? Do you just make the most of the libraries you have, and it works anyway? Do you have a really good second-hand book store? Do you order and then resell on eBay?

I'm open to any advice. I'm stumped. Help!!

Long Time No See

2009-02-19T20:29:00.002-06:00

Well, hello there!

We dropped off the face of the Earth for a bit, but we're back now!

Today Ethan did a worksheet counting items in a row and finding the corresponding number on the line underneath.

We did a practice page of writing 3s (which will definitely need some work).

Yet another round (actually, two rounds) of "Ready, Set, Go!" counting Duplos in sets of 3.

We counted fruit on a worksheet (numbers 11-15) for some practice (he seems to always want to skip 13 and 15).

We cut and pasted shapes to complete patterns.

We practiced telling top-of-the-hour time (he's VERY good at this; took him no time at all).

A match-the-outfit-to-the-weather cut and paste page.

Tracing letter B, upper- and lower-case.

We played a game where I would call off words and if it started with the B sound he would give me a thumbs-up, and if it did not, I got a thumbs down. He liked that a lot.

Simple letter search (think word search but for non-readers) with letter B

Bible story was creation days 4 and 5. He put little fish stickers in the water on a picture of the sea and sky.

Then to the couch for reading. LOTS AND LOTS of it today. We read the chapters in his Bible Story book for 4th and 5th creation days.

Then The Princess and the Pea, The Wind and the Sun, and The Three Wishes from the Usborne Bedtime Stories book (you've never seen a child laugh as hard as he did when I pinched my nose and said, "How could I enjoy byself wid everybody calling be sausage-dose?").

Then Tasha Tudor's One is One (even more practice counting to 20 - I LOVE this book. I had it when I was his age, too).

Then poetry! My, but we read a lot of that today.

The Pickety Fence, by David McCord
That Was Summer, by Marci Ridlon
Sound of Water, by Mary O'Neill
The Dark House, Author Unknown
Houses, by Aileen Fisher
Chairs, by Valerie Worth
What is Black?, by Mary O'Neill
Sunflakes, by Frank Asch

And Another

2009-01-16T20:27:00.004-06:00

Another good day today, though we got a late start.

Another A/a page from Starfall, this time we were to cut pictures out of magazines that started with the short a sound. Only problem? I don't have many magazines that were any good for that. I sat flipping through an old Southern Living while Ethan wrote a line each of upper- and lower-case As, when he stopped me. "Plaaaaant," he said. "That has A in it. He was right. So we bent the rules a little. We cut and pasted a cat, cactus, lamp, candles, hands, glass, apples, plant, macaroni, and ballet ("What's ballet?" he asked. I told him it was a kind of dance, and they dance on their toes a lot. So now? He calls it balance. The perfect mash-up of the two words!)

We worked on more scissor skills, cutting along curvy and angled lines. Even just from yesterday to today I saw vast improvement.

We cut out three pictures of children building a snowman, and he was to put them in order of first, second, and third.

We did another count-objects-circle-number page, which he did completely on his own without any guidance from me, and got them all correct!

We did a "Help the Grocer Count the Fruit" page, with numbers from 16 to 20. Again, remarkable improvement. He can almost count to 20 with little prompting (13 and 14 trip him up, and then he skips to 16).

Then it was off to the couch for reading.

We read four poems today, two short and two longer. The Squirrel, by Mildred Bowers Armstrong, The Cricket, by Marjorie Barrows, Wynken Blynken and Nod (twice - he and Aidan were both rapt, and asked for it again when it was over), and The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (per Ethan's request, having seen the accompanying illustration).

Then Scuffy the Tugboat, which again held Ethan rapt, and then the chapter out of his Bible Story book to correspond with his Bible activity: God created land and plants. I dipped a Q-tip in orange extract, and he touched it on his coloring page where there was fruit on a tree. We reviewed Genesis 1:1 and called it a day.

Two good days in a row! Are we finally settling in? Does that ever really happen?

Good Day

2009-01-15T22:04:00.002-06:00

Today was another good homeschooling day. He was extremely squirmy as we sat at the table for writing and math, but when we moved to the couch to snuggle in and read, he was very focused - interested and engaged in the stories and poems that we were reading. We accomplished a lot today.

We started back at the beginning with our writing, just to work with the printables for the Starfall program. Today we did the first A/a sheet, and played a game he liked a lot, where I would say words, and he would clap when he heard one that started with a short a sound. I added more than what was on the sheet, because he was having so much fun with it.

Then he did a word search but with letters. I found some worksheets at a website called Beginning Reading that kids can use to search for whatever letter they are working on. The letters are printed in a large font, and spaced further apart than a regular word search. Each letter of the alphabet has its own search, and each page has space at the bottom to practice writing the featured letter.

Then we moved on to a page for practicing scissor skills. He had to cut along various shaped lines. He had rather a lot of trouble with this, so we'll be revisiting it quite a bit in the coming week or two. Straight lines are no problem whatsoever. Throw in an angle, however, and he can't do it.

We did a cut and paste farm animals page. He cut out the back half of various farm animals and glued them to their matches on the other side of the page.

After than he did a connect the dots page. It was a seal, and I think it was actually supposed to go with a lesson on the letter S but it was one of only a few I found that were not too few numbers (he's ready to move past 10) and not too many (over 20). He's doing a fantastic job learning to recognize his teen numbers.

He did a color-by-number of a ball with stripes and stars on it, for number recognition and learning to read a key. He did a great job on this.

For further reinforcement of number recognition, I found some counting pages (also from Beginning Reading). He was to count the number of objects in a given row, and find and circle the corresponding number from a line of numbers beneath. As you progress through the worksheets they get more difficult. We'll be using these probably every day.

Then we went to the couch to read. We read a story called Minnie the Mermaid, by Tom and Elizabeth Orton Jones, and two poems: The Little Gnome, by Laura E. Richards, and God is Like This by Rowena Bennett. After that came There's No Place Like Space by Tish Rabe (Cat in the Hat does beginner's astronomy, although it was printed and we bought it before Pluto was demoted) and finally we read two chapters in volume 1 of his Bible Story books, to coincide with our Creation story Bible activity, which was gluing wisps of cotton balls to a picture of the ocean and sky. There are some wonderful printable activity books available at Child Evangelism Fellowship. I have used them in the past (about 2.5 years ago) and was happy to see they've added more since that time. They are very simple, and it won't be long before Ethan outgrows them, but we will use them for now because they are wonderfully sensory.

And that was that. I wish every day went as well.

Narrowing the Choices

2009-01-15T11:58:00.003-06:00

I did some research last night and found a reading program called Starfall. Their materials look quite good, are aesthetically pleasing (not too cluttered, professional-looking, and cute), and even better, they are free to print in black and white. You can also buy their books in color, but since right now we are schooling on a tight budget I just printed off the ABCs and the 1st level reading package instead of buying anything yet. They have story books that coincide with the packages that we will probably purchase if we decide the program is working well.

For Math we are looking at Saxon, but still haven't made a final decision. I don't know if it's feasible, but I'd like to get my hands on a copy of one of the books to really take a good look at it before we decide anything finally. Does anyone have any knowledge of or feedback on Saxon math?

Yet Another Breakthrough

2009-01-14T21:20:00.004-06:00

Tonight at the dinner table, Aidan had finished but had come back to visit with Ethan, who is a bit slower.

I told him, "you can play with Ethan later. He's eating. Ethan's eating," then turned to Ethan. "What does 'eat' start with?"

He knew the answer to that one - E. But then he took it further.

"E. Eeeeat. Eat. E....T. E, T is eat!"

And you know what? So what if it was wrong. He's on the right track. He's sounding out words and telling me how he thinks they are spelled, something he hasn't even attempted until tonight.

I am SO proud of him!

Number Recognition

2009-01-12T20:19:00.003-06:00

By far the best thing we've found for number recognition was accidental. It's Dave's measuring tape - a big, heavy, metal thing that Ethan discovered, begged for, and has been carrying around for three days now as he compulsively measures everything in the house. "Daddy, this cup is 4 inches!" "This book is 10 inches, Mommy!"

Even better, "Mommy, what is three-six?" So, yes, we get to talk about when there are two numbers, if the first one is 2 you say twenty, and if the first one is 3 you say thirty. Something I didn't think we'd be getting into for several months. It took him a while to catch on (Mommy, is 'three-six' 33?") but now? He just needs a gentle nudge and he can tell you each number through the twenties and thirties.

So on a day like today, when our school session was cut short right in the middle of math (it involved a toddler who has discovered the joy of removing his diaper), he still did math after dinner, all the way up until bedtime - far longer than if we'd finished our class, and he had a lot more fun.

Opinions, Please

2009-01-12T16:10:00.002-06:00

Dear Reader,

Can you please give me your opinion on the Whole Word approach vs. Phonics? Can you also please let me know if you think it is reasonable to use a little of both, or if they contradict each other too much to do so?

I'm a little worried about laying the wrong foundation with Ethan's reading. Unfortunately, I don't remember anything about how I learned to read, because I honestly don't remember not being able too, and Dave is the same way, so he doesn't have special insight either.

Right we are working on a few VERY simple Dolch sight words, simply because to me they make sense phonics-wise as well. I, a, my... I've just been explaining WHY they sound the way they do (long vowel sounds, etc.).

I am on the fence, but leaning more toward the phonics side, and wondering if the two can be used together, as we seem to be doing right now, or if later down the road that will become impossible, or if whole words can be used as a spring board to phonics, or if that is just preposterous.

Are they mutually exclusive? Must we choose? Is it too early either way?

Frankly, I am confuzzled. Please help.

Thanks in advance.

Jan 6 09

2009-01-06T18:15:00.006-06:00

Last night I was sick. Nothing major - small cold, but didn't feel up to a ton of schooling. We did upper and lowercase B, the number 2, and the sight word "my."

Today was better. I found a website with Christian worksheets, and I think that's what I'm going to use for writing.

Today was still B, for Bible. Even better, the sentence to trace was "I love my Bible." His sight words so far have been "I" and "my," so this was perfect for us. I traced in black everything but I, my, and the upper and lower case Bs, which Ethan traced.

We reviewed more sight word "I," with a complete-the-sentence worksheet.

We did a color-by-dot picture, where he had to count the dots in a space, and then find the same number in the key to know what color that space should be. It was a picture of a hot air balloon floating over rolling green hills. When he finished, he made me draw a picture of a red Toro riding mower on the grass. And if you think I can draw a red Toro mower, you are wrong. But I tried, and he deemed it good enough.

We worked on writing the number two. I found some printable pages that had an empty box on top, and two handwriting practice lines underneath, so we did two pages of 2s. On the first, in the box, I drew a big circle. After he had traced a line of 2s and written another line, I told him the circle was a pizza. I had him draw two of each topping. He drew two pieces of cheese, two slices of tomato, and two chunks of pineapple. In the box on the second page I drew a tree. After he'd traced a line and written a line of 2s, he drew two red apples, two green apples, and two yellow apples on the tree.

For number recognition, we did a matching page. There were boxes with different objects in them, in numbers from 1-5. He had to count the items in each box and match it to the number in the next column.

Then we did patterns, on which we'll need to spend a little more time. We started simple, eg., star/square/star/square, and at the end of each row, there was a box with two shapes in it. One completed the pattern the other did not. He had to circle the shape that completed the pattern.

After that came the FUN math - a game called Ready, Set, Go! I filled a tupperware container with lots and lots of Duplos. I set the kitchen timer for one minute, and in keeping with his work with the number two, he had to pull out (and count as he did it - one, two) sets of two blocks, and stick them together. The idea was to see how many sets of two he could build in a minute. He LOVED this. And his mind was so in the "one-two" mindset by the time he was finished, that when it came time to line them up and count how many he'd done (11), he was still stuck and counted them as 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2. It was fantastic - we'll be doing this often I think (though not so often that it wears thin - it's too wonderful to let that happen).

Next we counted a group of 12 crayons, then sorted them by color (three each of red, yellow, green, and blue). We counted that there were three of each color, then I showed him that if we have three yellow, and add three red, we have six. We did the same with blue and green, yellow and blue, and green and red. The idea being to show him that three plus three will always equal six, even if the objects are a different.

For science, we started a chapter on time, which I decided to skip, thinking it might go over better once he has the number recognition thing down. We moved instead to a section on grouping and sorting, and choosing the different item out of a group.

Bible was the Creation story, and as we read, we did a worksheet matching the created thing/s to the day they were created (number recognition! hooray!).

I was going to do a book report, but Dylan was melting down and the Kirby man rang and the dog started barking and totally screwed with our groove, so we snuggled in and read Sadie and the Snowman and called it a day.

Today was a GREAT homeschooling day. I needed it badly.

What Floats?

2008-12-30T23:17:00.004-06:00

Today we moved forward (FINALLY!!) from the letter A and started working on B.

Writing/Fine Motor/Letter Recognition

Letter B! Upper and lower case. Tracing and writing. Writing lessons went better today (numbers too) because I bribed him with marshmallows - one for each B he wrote for me.

Following b's through a maze.

Phonics

Finding and circling pictures that begin with the B sound.

Circling the picture in a group that rhymes with the first picture.

Spelling and Vocab (at least, that's what the workbook calls it)

Tracing and writing the word "I." Filling in "I" to complete three sentences.

Numbers

Tracing and writing the number 2.

Following 2s through a maze to help children get to a zoo.

Trace and write the number 10.

Color in only the spaces with the number 10, to reveal a hot air balloon hidden picture.

Classifying

Drawing a line from an object to where it belongs - toolbox or fridge.

Cutting out pictures of furniture and gluing them in the correct room of a house.

Science

The second part of our chapter on water. Review of yesterday's information, and then moved on to learning about floating and sinking.

When asked what sorts of things he thought might float, he answered "boats." When asked what he thought might sink, he answered, "small boys." (!!!)

I gathered several small objects and filled a clear bowl with water, and we tested a plastic fork, metal baby spoon, hot wheels car, rock, lego, toothpick, toy spider, and a paper muffin cup. We made a chart with two columns - one for float, and one for sink. For each item he tested, he filled in the box showing what happened. When we had tested all the items, we reviewed it by reading our chart. By the time we were done, he was able to tell me, when I pointed at an item on the list, what had happened to it, just by looking at what he had colored on the chart.

Miscellaneous other stuff

Still looking for a good history book. Think I may have found one (or two) - just need to order it/them. May have found something great for world geography and learning about other countries and cultures - will let you know how it turns out. It's published by Highlights - a little old for him at the moment, but we can adapt it and then recycle it when he's ready for the whole thing. Have something wonderful on the way for mythology, poetry, and miscellaneous children's literature (thanks, Mom!!). A 16-volume set of The Children's Hour books published in 1953. I had them when I was little (and not-so-little) and LOVED them. I hope my kids do too.

Dec 29 2008

2008-12-29T19:10:00.006-06:00

Today went well. Much much better than some of the school days we've been having.

Writing/Fine Motor/Letter Recognition

I don't have Ethan trace "A"s anymore on his worksheet, since he seems to have the general idea. Instead today we just wrote a small line each of upper- and lower-case and then only traced them as the first letter in some practice words (Alligator, Apple, Alice, astronaut, at, ant).

He colored a "hidden" picture of an alligator by filling in only the spaces that contained the letter A in either form (he also wrote some lower-case letter Ns in the blank spaces - a letter I didn't know he knew how to write, but he does know uppercase simply because it's part of his name).

Phonics

Circled A words in a group of pictures, circled words containing the short a sound, and matched one set of pictures to their rhyming pictures (plane to rain, car to star, etc.).

Numbers

Writing the number 1, coloring only items that are labeled with the number 1 (he was able to recognize other numbers on the other items as well - I'm seeing great progress with this!).

A connect-the-dot page.

Science

We (I) decided to shelve the weather topic for now and work out of a textbook I found called Exploring Science. We read about water and did some experiments to explore the properties of water and what makes water change its state. We made condensation on a glass, saw that ice melted in a glass of warm water, and poured water from one container to another to see that water takes the form of whatever you pour it into. The only one we didn't do was evaporation, because we don't really have a sunny window that's not one of the little boys' rooms, but we do know that heat evaporates water, and I'm going to show him this next time we go into a public restroom with a hand dryer.

Language Arts

We read William Wordsworth's Daffodils - once with me stopping to explain as I went along, and then explaining it at the end, and then a second time when I thought he understood the broad idea. He seemed to enjoy it, so we'll read little poems like that a couple times a week maybe. Maybe he could learn and recite something simple.

We read a little book about a little girl who gets a sled for Christmas (it didn't have a cover - I made up a name for it), and then we did a book report. I had him give a synopsis of the book and then tell me his favorite part.

New Tools

2008-12-18T21:09:00.004-06:00

We have a new tool here that is helping immensely in number recognition, order, and fine motor skills.

A connect-the-dots book.

We did a few of them this morning, and he loved them, once he caught on. At first, he was going from point to point with some spectacular detours. The shortest distance between two points is a right angle, he thought. But once he figured out that he was meant to be drawing a picture it clicked, and he was very focused on them for nearly half an hour. By the time he tired of them, he could finally distinguish between a 9 and a 6, and could recognize the rest of the numbers by sight as well, up to 10.

That was quite a milestone for him, one I was fretting over him ever reaching.

As far as letter recognition goes, last night I attended a Discovery Toys party and ordered something that looks very promising. It's a magnetic fishing game, and the sea creatures that you catch have uppercase letters on them, that you have to match to the letters on your card. When they've mastered uppercase, you can flip the cards over and fish for uppercase to match to lowercase on the card. He's big into "fishing" with various magnetic things around the house, so I am hopeful this will be an excellent learning game for him.

I also ordered a box of brightly colored small rubber vehicles to use as math manipulatives.

He's getting bored and fed up with having to trace and write letters. I don't know whether to hold off on doing that, and let him try to tackle it again after he can recognize them (all, not just some) and maybe read a few simple words...I imagine it must be frustrating to have to learn to write when you see no discernible purpose in the activity. Maybe once he can read and spell a little we can ease into it? Or should I still keep at it a little at a time? It's not like I'm making him do pages and pages of it; a line a day at most, but he digs in his heels and balks so badly that I'm afraid it will be quite a power struggle if it continues. And I know he gets a little sick of worksheets and so do I, but what else is there for writing? I mean, it seems you simply must get it down on paper if you're going to learn to do it, right?

His fine motor skills are improving by leaps and bounds. He drew a passable combine harvester this morning (well, passable for a 5-year-old, but really it was surprisingly recognizable) along with a few other things (a leaf blower is another favorite), as well as taking a stab at drawing a Pooh bear for Aidan. It's so exciting to see this development!

TGIF

2008-11-21T20:12:00.001-06:00

Today we got a late start, and were still working when Dave came home.

Still using lots of worksheets. He seems to enjoy them but I'm hoping to branch out soon - I have some ideas for next week.

Some of the work seems a little easy for him. I hope to be able to start nudging him forward a little, now that I know what concepts he understands. This week has given me a much better idea of what he can handle.

I need some good ideas for History. Right now I'm leaning toward getting both The Story of the World Vol. 1, and A Child's History of the World and using them together (mostly because they both sound really good and I can't choose). I will probably get the SOTW activity book as well.

I also want to get a big bucket o' cubes for math. They are cheap, and the uses are endless. It seems to me a good and basic place to start.

For his birthday he got a Monopoly Town game that we can hopefully use for math quite a bit as well (it's building houses - Ethan can't wait to get started).

Today's work:

Circling the picture that does not belong in a group of four items. Talking about why it doesn't belong. I had no idea whether he could do this or not - we've actually never tried this thinking exercise before. He passed with flying colors, though he did tell me when he chose the dog out of a group of a turkey, a chicken, and a duck, that it didn't belong because it was not a vegetable. Note to self: do a lesson on animals, vegetables, and minerals. He did get that point back, however, for using the word "instruments" for a guitar, trumpet, and drum.

A review of more and fewer. Still having problems with fewer, so we did an extra page dedicated just to that. By the end of that page I think his "a-ha" moment had happened and he was getting them right, so we'll go over it once more on Monday just to be sure.

Beginning sounds T, M, B, and S. Choosing which picture has the same beginning sound as the example.

Tracing triangles.

Reading about the water cycle and learning(ish) the words "precipitation," "evaporation," and "condensation," or at least the ideas behind them. (We're going to work on this one for a while - he has plenty of time. Weather will be our science lesson for the foreseeable future.)

Reading about the different types of clouds.

Coloring and cutting out pictures of furniture and gluing them in the correct room in a house.

Sorting and counting craisins, cashews, and marshmallows, and graphing. Working on counting to 15.

I forgot to do a Bible lesson with him, but it was late and he does a devotion with Dave before bed anyway.

First Post

2008-11-21T19:31:00.000-06:00

So here we are, homeschooling Ethan.

I'm going to try to keep a record here of what we're doing, what's working, what's not, etc. I'd like to try to keep this updated with what we do day to day, though I know it will make for some rather dry reading. I'm open to any suggestions at all for our home schooling adventure.

I already had an idea of what our target areas would be. We've already been trying to nudge him in the direction he should be going, but now it will be a concerted effort to get him up to speed.

At the moment, his letter recognition is spotty and he has no interest in learning to read. Rather odd for someone who has loved books since birth.

He can count to 11 and no further, so that is an area we will be addressing as well.

His fine motor skills are lacking somewhat, though we have seen some rather sudden improvement over the last couple of weeks as he's started drawing faces.

So. Letters, counting at least to 20, and big emphasis on fine motor skills.

Tuesday I copied several pages of worksheets just to see how long his attention span would be, and he finished most of them. I also wanted to see what sort of thinking skills he had. He's fine on most of them. What we covered:

Sorting by colors: coloring different fruits, sounding out colors, cutting out fruits (fine motor skills), sorting fruit by color and gluing to the corresponding basket.

Tracing and writing upper and lower case A.

Learning about "the same" and "more." Drawing "the same" number of kites for Sue as Bill has (he drew squares and some strings to Sue's hand. A HUGE feat for Ethan; I was extremely proud of this). Determining which group has "more" items in it.

Learning about "-est" - Finding longest and shortest in a group.

Drawing one ball for each animal on a page.

Learning B sound, and finding pictures of things that begin with the letter B

Rhyming

Matching beginning sounds

Sorting thing by where they belong (i.e., cow in a barn, bed in a house, tractor in a barn, oven in a house)

Picking out winter clothes from several pictures of winter and summer clothes.

Learning Daniel 3:17, hearing the story, coloring a picture, and gluing tissue paper flames onto a furnace.

Then came Wednesday, and Dylan went to the Dr. Also my copier/printer ran out of paper. So we didn't do as much on Wednesday.

Tracing of basic pre-writing strokes (he needs the most work on slants, such as for A and N and for drawing triangles).

Learning to recognize "more" and "fewer." He can easily tell which group has more, but has a very hard time with the concept of fewer or less.

Sorting, counting, and graphing a little bit of Halloween candy, to see if he could handle graphing (yes).

Reviewing Daniel 3:17, and listing and talking about other instances in the Bible where God has saved those who serve Him.

Yesterday I was sick. Ethan watched lots of Diego. I'm calling it Science and Math.

And now we're caught up and I'll do today's post separately.