Homeschooling

We are into our third week of school and I have to say, I am surprised at how well we are getting on! Please don't let that lead you to suspect that I had any dreadful ideas of how things were going to be. I am just happy that we have fallen into such a comfortable schedule and do not have to many pressing obligations.

Here is the worst of it:
The 4th grader has forgotten just about everything I so carefully taught him last year. It seems that there was a leak in his brain that I discovered to late, and I can only be thankful that things are not worse. He still remembers how to read and print letters. The same cannot be said for spelling words, or adding or multiplying sums (to name a few offenses). This discovery came with a bit of frustration but I have been able to recover tolerably well. I immediately launched a full scale assault with a battle strategy that is guaranteed to succeed. Simply put- we don't move on until we have recovered lost data. It so happened that we had not quite finished some of our books from last year- namely math and grammar. So we have spent the past 3 weeks picking up where we left off, but with a slight regression in math. We have now come to the point where we are ready to proceed to the 4th grade level books. Yay!