First week officially down, many more weeks to go :-)

Well, our first week is officially done and we are sort of starting on our second week.  The girls have been excited to do their work every day and are often begging me to find some more for them to do in the afternoon, we'll see how long that continues.  Right now we are only doing official school in the morning for 2-3 hours but, if they want more to do and I could get my work schedule more evened out we might extend it.  I don't want them to burn out so we'll see.

Highlights from this week:

• Ada and Maddie (who I am surprised is with us) have completed the first 2 weeks of our Math U See Primer Program.  I know they will slow down some as the information gets harder and Ada might be ahead of Maddie before Christmas, but right now I am happy.  I am also happy that I bought the next year, Alpha, used from an online used homeschool forum before this school year started, I might be using it for one or both of them
• Coloring and writing things every day.  The girls seem to enjoy some of the little observation and tracing worksheets
• The girls enjoying all the reading, as that is a lot of what Sonlight is, though I knew they would enjoy it
• So far not being too annoyed at Hazel wanting to do "school" with us but mostly taking her sisters stuff away when they are trying to work
• The girls love Muzzy!  I don't think they are learning any real french lately, but they are enjoying it and we can start more serious second language training in future years

Some other things that we have learned is that Maddie definitally does not have the fine motor skills to truly work on writing, and Ada is lacking in that catagory also.  We will work on tracing and such and random coloring.  This will also mean me modifying a lot of our "curriculum" for reading for Ada (and Maddie, as far as she stays with us on it), but since I'm the teacher I can do what they need and that is what this is all about!

This morning we also had a great time going to the science center since Daddy is home!  All three kids had a blast and could have stayed there longer but Hazel was starting to melt down with soap from the bubble areas in her eyes and I needed to get other things done.  We have a membership so we might make that a monthly (?) thing this winter once we need more inside stuff to do.  I just wish you didn't have to pay for parking downtown, as that will get very old if we keep the membership past this year.  Ada also demonstrated herself as maybe a budding sculpter.  They had one of those things where you can push "pins" through to make designs like your hand, except the pins were plastic and it was large.  The girls loved it and it almost makes me what to figure out how to build one for our basement.  Ada was making some interesting designs with it.  The last one she did, thinking of this on her own, was she pushed in a profile or her face and upper body then turned and pushed in the opposite facing profile.  It looked just like two people kissing and holding hands.  Very inventive!

Now, to plan for the rest of this week, which will include two more field trips so not a ton of book learning, but a lot of fun!

Side note, John and I had fun at the football game this past weekend but I must say it made us nervous for watching the game next weekend!