School

I homeschool, and for the most part I love it! I have days when I wonder why I'm doing it, what I'm thinking, and of course am I ruining my kids? I do think it's the right choice for our family at this point in time though. We officially have 1 week under our belts. I thought it felt great until Brie informed me today she didn't like school! She had been begging me for weeks to start school back up. I said to her you're the one who wanted to start back up so bad, she said I want to do last year's school. I guess I have to get on the ball and work harder. Last year we did My Fathers World, it's a unit study curriculum. It had crafts, things she got to read, some writing, and we learned about a new subject every week. This year for our main core we are using Five in a Row. We read a story every day for a week, after we read we talk about different elements of the story. It does have some crafts, but not many. I'm going to have to come up with something! The girl reads very well, and enjoys doing so. So maybe having her read some read alouds would help. For math we are using Right Start. So far it has been review, I think as it gets going she will enjoy it. For phonics we are using Spell to Write and Read. I haven't gotten that started yet! I hope to start it very soon! Zeke listens to some of what we do, but other than the math he isn't very interested.