Luke...I am your mother...

I love 4 year olds. It always has been my favorite age. Jadon is seriously obsessed with Star Wars right now. We will be having a Star Wars birthday in a couple weeks. I had better find some characters for the cake! It is constant light saber waving, darth vader breathing, action around here! He keeps his light sabor, that he worked diligently for an entire week on his chores, by his side constantly, and especially on a makeshift belt if he can. He has watched the old trilogy, and that is enough! I am OD'd on 'the Empire,' but my little Jedi is enthralled!!

School Days, School Daze

School started for the Daniel Homeschool this week. Actually things have gone really well. We have read 3 chapters each day in our Children's Story Bible, and done each day's lesson in our Character Building curriculum. In science, we have talked about solar eclipses (too bad we aren't in China!) and done an activity to notebook. We have some timeline activity to catch up on in history, but we have done our reading lessons to date. All of the kids have been eager and willing to get their Math and Language done too. Jadon has done week 1's Math lessons on Monday and week 2's on Tuesday. I guess we will start week 3 today! The girls have kept up with their handwriting in A Reason for Handwriting, and I just realized that I may need a teachers manual to figure out the rhythm of this thing. Once we add in some spelling, reading, and fine arts, we'll be good to go!

We started some chore charts that have helped with them knowing what is expected. They are earning some prizes that we got while grocery shopping last week. Next week we start earning spending money for our Disney trip in November!

So far so good. I hope it will stay this pleasant when we add in those school year activities. We'll have field trips, ballet class, maybe a music class, and Explorers to add. Busy! My desire is to just find a good rhythm or make habits that help this thing we call life run smoothly! No chaos, please!

Talk soon!

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