First Week - Check!

We survived the first week. Yay! Just barely though, I might add.

The last two days have not gone as smoothly but we got our work done. We're still trying to figure out some sort of routine. It may take some time.

Yesterday T started with his writing journal. I found a website through Clickschooling called Writing Fix. It offers fun writing prompts that T has gotten a kick out of. He's been writing funny little stories with the writing prompts. Yesterday it was about a chicken that gives haircuts. Today it was about a blue jay that shrinks things. And somehow L makes it into each story. I'm glad to find a fun way for T to encourage his writing.

We are making great progress with our shark lapbook. The boys are very excited to contribute to it. We're still working on the parts and hope to be able to start putting things together next week. I can't wait!

While we are still reviewing math skills with T and reinforcing time, we've gone ahead into the 2nd grade language arts. Since he's started with his writing journal, it's becoming glaringly obvious that T needs work on capitalization and punctuation. I cannot believe that he still has trouble remembering that a sentence begins with a capital! I know what we'll be focusing on now.

T read Tonight on the Titanic by Mary Pope Osbourne yesterday. He read about 4 chapters. Today he read Earthquake on Early in the Morning by Mary Pope Osbourne because he couldn't find Tonight on the Titanic.

We've continued to review his book from Chinese school last year. Today he reviewed the chapters on his own. We're as ready as we can be for the first day of Chinese school tomorrow. I am nervous for him. I would have been nervous anyway had T been going to C2, second grade, as he was supposed to. Now that he's going to third grade instead due to the lack of students in second grade makes me very, very nervous. Crossing my finger that tomorrow goes well!