Reagan and Avery are still working on RightStart Math and All About Spelling. Reagan really likes All About Spelling, he says the book is easy and he gets stickers! Math has been more enjoyable for him too, he is doing problems on probability which involce spinners and dice games. Avery's reading is coming along, slowly as usual. He has a lot of trouble with reversals and telling similar looking letters and numbers apart. Clocks are completely baffling to him, even digital clocks, please don't laugh. I shouldn't be surprised I have the same issue, Reagan bought me a watch for Mother's Day a few years ago and it was so embarrassing because people would ask me the time and I couldn't read my own watch.
Avery's handwriting is improved however, thanks our First Annual Super Fun Handwriting Challenge Time. In other words I offered a small cash reward ($5) for completion of a Handwriting Without Tears workbook, neatness counting of course. Both boys whipped through the previously despised workbooks and their writing shows it!
Mary has 5 pages left in her Explode the Code (phonics) primer. She also loves to do her own copy work, she takes a pencil and paper and copies words wherever she finds them: from books, the boys' assignments, cereal boxes, etc.! Girls are SO different from boys. She is really interested in animals, we have been checking out books about bees and ladybugs and I'm trying to fit in a trip to the zoo to see elephants. She really wants to see some elephants, "the smartest animals in the zoo" she calls them.
Jameson has been very interested in helping in the kitchen. He is at that rather frustrating stage where he wants to do everything himself. I must say he is better than any of my kids in regards to cleaning up his messes and putting things away when he is done. I credit that to the fact that I have used the Montessori method with him since birth, and it has payed off! It is so nice to have a fourth child who can take out his own activity, do it on his own and put it away. Not every time, but even once in awhile is great! After we move I am very excited to set up an all new Montessori area for Mary, Jameson and Ethan.
Ethan is growing round and happy at 3 months old. He loves the mirror on his changing table, he has the cutest animated conversations with himself! He also loves his baby gym, he smiles and coos at the toys hanging above him.
We have been spending Tuesdays picnicking and hiking at the local park. Avery has been particularly enthusiastic about pressing flowers for our family nature journal which was neglected all winter. This is one of my favorite homeschooling traditions.
We also have some caterpillars and a praying mantis egg sac that we are watching, with great anticipation.
And Avery continues to be obsessed with robots, he has been taking apart the little bug robot he got for Christmas and has been drawing up plans to make a new body for it with wheels and a microphone. He really wants me to take him to Radio Shack or Home Depot to buy supplies. I'm trying to share his enthusiasm, but I confess the Roomba is really the only robot that has captured my heart thus far.
The kids are busy with soccer and baseball and looking forward to swimming lessons and a running clinic this summer!
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