Making Progress One Day at a Time

I’ll be honest and tell you that there are days when I question my abilities to teach my kids. Even the simple things like counting, adding, and learning letters. Each of our kids has different learning styles and I have approached subjects differently with them.

That, however, makes it all the ‘sweeter’ when we can see that things are falling in place in our learning time. Concepts are understood and progress is being made.

This week was one of those weeks when all the gradual progress led to moments when a certain little boy smiled and started spouting off things that he was learning.

Math Time

Like almost counting up to 100…he gets stuck in the 80’s for some reason. Considering he started off the year still mixing up numbers in the teens, this was so exciting for him {and me!}. There was a big grin on his face when he just decided to count for me.

Reading

The longer we wait to work on reading together, the more likely Kaleb is to get frustrated. This week Kaleb asked if we could do reading first and PRESTO! The change was amazing. No whining. No complaining. Reading was soooo much easier for him. Instead of sounding out each individual letter, he took his time and waited ‘til he could read out the entire word.

Drawing

Every single day a certain little boy pulls out our Draw Write Now books and a ream of paper to draw countless pictures. Thankfully, paper was on sale at Costco last month….but I may have to hide paper in the near future.

All the pictures are really sweet though {grins}.

With Others

Our oldest three kids each have a friend that they love to spend time with – someone that they’ve really connected with and always ask to spend time with. Kaleb has been left out of the mix in some ways, so this year we’re a part of a small playgroup with some good homeschooling friends.

This week was our first time really getting together and seeing the excitement coming from Kaleb to see his ‘friends’ made the extra day out SO incredibly worth it.

We’re finishing up our week by taking a few days to go camping. A certain mother {cough.cough} thought that the upcoming weekend was Labor Day and planned a break at the end of the week instead. Oops. The kids are excited though and I’m looking forward to some time with friends and family {minus the internet}.

How was your week?

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