catch up.

I am back.

with a little less expectation on myself.

I wanted to not only document our days but also photograph them with beautiful works of art.....ha!

Not gonna happen.

So, if you're reading this, warning, it may get boring.

I'm logging everything we do here for record keeping sake.

If you find some great ideas, awesome!

If you see a picture of what we did...be amazed!

For the Record:

We are using Write Road to Reading, the Spalding Method

for the learning to read/write/spell process.

My personal take on the issue is that even if it's harder for me, which this is!!!, I'd rather do it right the first time and NEVER have to back track.

I've poured hours into studying this system, after the hours I poured into studying the reading process in general that is, and I LOVE it's mission, it's facts, it's passion for teaching children and giving them absolutely solid foundations.

I love that it's logical and breaks down the English language into a sensible, teachable and simple language (unlike everything I've heard about our language my entire life).

I am using a supplement that has it all broken down for me because, like I said, it's not easy.

It gets easy once you've mastered it but this isn't the way I was taught, for the most part, so I'm no master. (give me a year or two though and I'll be writing my own supplement, I'm sure!)

It's RIGHT for us, it's just not easy!

THE SUPPLEMENT, in case you need it too!

(really, I think if I ever get the chance to meet this gal, I'll be kissing her through my tears of relief - HUGE burden released when I got my hands on this book! I was sold on the Spalding Method but learning to teach it was a-whole-nother ball game! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!)

Again, personal view on this.

I never want to hear myself say, "I taught her to read in three months but she can't spell and her handwriting is behind"

It's a package deal for us....and the process will be tailored to each child....the package will be the same, the wrapping will be different!

We are hitting READING/WRITING/SPELLING hard core right now.

There will be other things to our schooling but the only expectation I have on us to accomplish every day, is the reading part.

Math will be done with games and through life skills,

Unit Studies will happen, when they happen.

They are planned and ideas are kept in a journal, supplies are bought, so they opportunity to happen, but if it's one of those days, we just let it 'be' one of those days.

phew.

that felt good to get out!

I've gone to bed with this 'log' on my mind a lot lately!

When Lydia turns six I have to keep track of our days for the state, I wanted to get in the swing before then....so here we are ;-)