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Hello all...just a little update on My and My little Type A...

We have been working on our memorization. Everything from bible verses to days of the week and the like. She loves to memorize! Then she loves to teach it to her sister. They say that teaching something to someone else is the best way to learn it yourself...so she is just reinforcing it all by helping Lili learn it!! You go girls!!

Aly hasn't shown much interest in working on her 100 easy lessons reading book lately. I am trying to give her some latitude on it. She has been very interested in working on her Dolch site words and also her phonics flash cards, so we have been focusing there the last few days. I am noticed that she is also teaching those to Lili, so it is sinking in. She pulls out a book to "read" to Lili and spends half the time pointing out words and letter combinations to Lili. She tells her what they sound like and helps her to pronounce them. They are both doing very well with that.

Aly has showed a renewed interest in her leap pad books that show phonics as well. I think that as she is understanding it better, she is realizing what those books were talking about and it is all starting to click.

I ususally give her a math worksheet each day at some point, but most of our math is "real life" stuff like "how many plates are still in the sink after you put two in the dishwasher?". She counts everything and has started making up her own "word problems" of sort. "Mom, I put three bowls in the cabinet and there are two bowls left on the counter. So how many bowls are there all together?"

"Uuuummmmmm...six?"

"No Mom...try again"

"Uuuuummmmmm...four?"

"Oh Mom...we really need to work on our math skills!"


We have been working on chores and obedience skills...I have added chores to her morning routine and she is doing very well!! This is aly loading the dishwasher.

Here is Tiger Lili working on Fine motor skills by stringing cheerios on the ribbon. This was followed shortly by Lili working on her eating skills as she took everyone of them off and ATE them!!! LOL

My Little Type A loves to work on her writing skills. Yesterday I was doing something and she was working on the letter "H". I told her to work on it and bring me her book when she was done. She looked at me funny and said, "Mom...you didn't say it" "I didn't say what honey?" "You didn't say the thing about excellence and God being perfect!! You have to say it!!"
"Okay...Aly, don't forget our Motto...you should always do your very best...Excellence, not perfection...God's job is perfection...ours is excellence!"
"Thanks Mom!" Thats my Little Type A!!!!

Today I am going to inlist the help of my little ankle biters to put up a history timeline down the hallway!! I am going to put up a bunch of paper all the way down the hall, draw a line down the middle, mark off about every 25 years or so and then leave it there forever!! Okay, well not forever...but for a long long long time (until David makes me take it down!!:-)

Anyway, every time we learn something that has a date associated with it, we will go mark it on the timeline. Not that either of them will understand it now, but as we continue to mark events on our wall of time, they will start to get it...and we will a really cool wall of time to show for it!!

We also are starting an English Language notebook. A three ring binder, with a section for letters and also letter combinations and phonics rules, etc. Then she can begin to record for herself what she is learning in "her own words". Samples of her work, examples of it, practices of it, etc.

I am trying to create a good atmosphere of learning for the girls, so that they are excited about learning, so their memory is enriched, so they will have a good capacity for learning. I want to instill in them a good work/service ethic and sow in them the ability to honor God and us.

These are all things that will be a good foundation for all of their later learning. We certainly don't have it all right and all perfect, but I think we are off to a good start!!!

Okay...My little Type A has the paper and the tape and the ruler and the markers all on the table and she is chomping at the bit to start on her "Wall of History"...I better go before she IMPLODES!!! :-)

Blessings and happy learning~
Shelley