This week Beanie has just taken off with reading.  She is starting to read everything she can…or thinks she can. She doesn’t quite read everything but I’ll often hear her sounding out words. I am just tickled pink.

It was simply beautiful out earlier this week and we walked the 4 blocks to the public library. I told Beanie on the way there I would only check out early reader books for her. I did not want her to check out the same books Goober was checking out but I would help her find books she could actually read.

We found two Bobbsey Twins books  and I think Beanie says there are at least two more at the library, and we found one Dora the Explorer. She found other books as well but those are her favorites. She says she likes them because the letters are big and there aren’t too many words on a page. I like them because she can’t look at the picture and tell me what the word is. I am so very proud I could just burst!

Tonight we were talking and I was encouraging her with reading. I told her the best way to read better and better is to just read. She wants to read Winnie books, a series of horse books Goober has, I told her we would find a special set of books just for her. She wants the Elsie Dinsmore books, or Millie Keith, or The Bobbsey Twins. She also wants to start getting the set of Trixie Beldon books.  I just might do that soon.

We haven’t dropped off the face of the earth. We have just been very busy lately. But not too busy for school…well most days anyway.

Last week Goober took some achievements tests at our local Christian school. The school offers the tests free to homeschool students. Ostensibly I know to increase their enrollment.  We know the principal of the school and he has wanted Goober to attend since he took over the position of principal.

Which while I don’t find it horribly odd, I do find it intriguing. You see her birthday is in July and the cut off birthday for kindergarten enrollment is March 1. She is 4 months too young to enroll in the grade she is excelling at currently.  If we had enrolled her at that school, she would not have gone to kindergarten until last year and right now would only be in first grade.  She is doing mostly 2nd grade work now with a few subjects at 3rd grade. Can you imagine her in first grade? Oh my.

Anyway I digress. Goober is bound and determined she will not go to school. She didn’t enjoy it much at all. She didn’t enjoy getting up at 7am, being in class at 8am and not coming home until 3:15 pm. She didn’t enjoy not taking potty breaks when she wanted/needed to.

She did enjoy her teacher (another friend of ours) and her classmates. It was funny. She would tell me everyday just which of her classmates had their name written on the board.

Here are some pictures of her at school.

I was a little concerned about how sh ewould do with the history and science tests. But she told me she only had math, language arts, reading and spelling.  If she did as well as I know she can, she should have blown the curveon those.!!!! I will be happy with however she did.  I would like for her to be at least at her grade level if not a bit above.

Beanie was fine on Monday. She played Barbies in her room quite happily the whole day. But that night was a different story. She was crying that she didn’t want Goober to go to school. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday she earned herself a new nickname…Clingon! I would almost swear she was attached to me with Saran Wrap.

The Friday before that we had our Home-School Talent show.  Beanie recited The Caterpillar by Christina G. Rosetti.

She was also in a little bell choir with other pre-schooler.

Goober played the piano. Which I’m thinking is a good thing because I don’t think she will have a spring recital this year. 

About the recital. Goober’s beloved piano teacher, Mr.Baily will be moving the end of this month. He highly recommended a teacher and she starts  with the new teacher on the 7th. I haven’t heard about a recital before then however. .

Now if the phonics rules say “Silent e on the end makes the vowel say it’s name” why do we say have and not hayve? And give and not gI-ve