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By Amanda Pelser

Homeschool Mother’s Journal ~ July 8

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Holiday weekends are nice, but they always throw things off a little bit.  We lose our routine.  Sometimes people get cranky after having extra daddy time because we miss him when he has to go back to work.  Including the mommy.

In our homeschool this week…
We're in our summer “break” now.  We're focusing on math, language arts, and lots of free reading.

Places we're going and people we're seeing…
We're counting down to our trip to California next week.  Josh's sister Corrie is getting married in one week from today!

My favorite thing this week was…
I love listening to Jonathan read.  This stack is some of the books that he has read in the last week. His favorite books have been Frog and Toad.

What's not working for us…
We scrapped the rest of the Sonlight Readers 1 I Can Read It Book 2 and all of Book 3.  Jonathan was bored with the stories and the reading level was too low.  Book 1 help build some confidence and reading speed, but by the time we started Book 2, he wanted something with more of a story line.  I also scrapped a lot of the activities in Sonlight LA 1.  Some he's just not ready for and some he just plain does like to do.

What's working for us…
We moved on to the rest of the books in Sonlight Readers 1.  I've been using the activity sheets in Sonlight LA 1 and modifying them as needed.  Jonathan seems to understand the grammar concepts that have been introduced because he points things out in other books that he is reading.  He got excited when he saw uppercase emphasis and a series in one of the Frog and Toad books.

I'm reading…

  • The Ministry of Motherhood by Sally Clarkson with GoodMorningGirls.org.  We're reading about the gift of faith this week.
  • Educating the Wholehearted Child by Clay and Sally Clarkson.  This book is amazing.  It is a wealth of information.  Last weekend, I decided that it would be helpful to process this book with other moms, so I started planning for a discussion group on the book.  It begins July 18 and I'd love to have you join me!

 

A photo to share…
Isn't this cutie irresistible?

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About Amanda Pelser

Amanda is a former church communications director turned work-at-home(schooling)-mom. She has a MA in Old Testament Studies and a BA in Bible. She's married to her high school sweetheart and they have four boys. She writes about faith, motherhood, and homeschooling at The Pelsers.

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