Catching you all up

Well it has been awhile since I blogged. We have been so busy that I just keep forgetting to do it. My cousin has moved in with us so we now have a 19 year old pregnant woman living with us. She is due with her first baby in December.

What we are learning-

Shelby has come a long way with her reading and grammar skills. I gave her a word list to read to me last week and she was able to read every word to me. Half of them were sight words. She is able to sit and read books in a setting. She still struggles to find books that interest her enough to read but we are working on that.

Shelby has moved on to memorizing her subtraction facts and has been introduced to multiplying and "groups" of numbers. She wants to skip addition and subtraction completely and just do that.

Matthew is improving on his reading and phonic work. He does not like to "have" to read daily but he is able to do it. We are still working on handwriting before we move to sentence and grammar work.

In Math Matthew is now able to count by 2's to 20, 5's to 100, 10's to 100 and 3's to 12. He is able to figure out addition problems in his head up to 12.

We have gone on field trips to a pumpkin patch, park to play with friends, Six Flags and a few others.