It seems like the way to be a happy homeschooler (for me, at least), is to start small, with the basics, and add things on as we go, so that is what we did.
A has her own math to do now as it is going swimmingly. We play lots of games and do half of a lesson per day. I started her off in RightStart A, but soon found out she had learned too much from listening in to J's lessons for that to be a good fit. RightStart B works well as long as I don't drag out the lessons.
Additionally, A worked hard building some swooping patterns.
Her hard work paid off with a beautiful bridge pattern of her own design.
M set up her own working, sorting the colored pieces from a Montessori trinomial cube.
J had plenty to do as we quizzed the first sixty or so works from The Writing Road to Reading and continued in RightStart C. We finally started the geometric drawing portion, which was the part that convinced me not to switch to Singapore. As expected, he loves it.
Friday morning, as I started A's math lesson, I told J it was free play time.
"Can I please do the next math page? Please?" he begged. I gave in. Who can resist such a request?
We ended our week with the first day, for us, of German school, and we're geared up and excited about speaking more German at home again after a lot of laziness on my part over the summer.
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