TOG Y1r U3 W21

This week we add the final item to fill up our second quarter schedule. Princess L is taking a 13 week ballet course called "The Princess Adventure." The teacher is a wonderful Christian woman - Miss Karen - who teaches the girls how to worship the LORD through dance. We decided to give her this class as a birthday present. We also gave her pink ballet shoes which she is so excited about. The class will be every Monday for 13 weeks. It will be hardest on Princess M, who is still taking a morning nap most days, but will no longer on Mondays.

Princess E
Bible - Amos and Jonah
Growing With Grammar - Lesson 4.9 to 4.12
Math drill sheets - 5 minute drill with multiplication facts
Writing - newspaper articles
Reading - What the Bible is all about (Excerpts), Life in Ancient Mesopotamia (excerpts)
mapping, handwriting, vocabulary, SAPs

Princess S
Bible - Amos and Jonah
Growing With Grammar - Lessons 21-30 (she has worked ahead a little and already has the first two of these done)
Math U See - Beta Lesson 23E and F and test
Writing - newspaper articles
mapping, handwriting, vocabulary SAPs

Princess L
This little one has me stumped. She is really struggling with 100 Easy Lessons. The thing is that she knows all her letter sounds. Point to a letter, she can tell you the name and the sound. But, she is having a hard time saying the sounds in combinations and in repeating after me. 100 Easy Lessons has the child repeating words said very slowly, then repeated fast. They also repeat rhyming patterns. She has a very hard time saying certain sounds. And the odd thing is, she sound like she has a New York accent. A friend of mine said that her very auditory son has the same issue, right down to the accent. He is not a strong reader as a result. She suggested the Explore the Code series. I will look into it. She also mentioned another program, though it is for older kids so may not be appropriate yet. I pulled out the first book in the Bob Books series for her, but quickly put it away as one of the sounds she has problems with is switching the t and d sounds. Those are the first ending sounds in the first few books, so I'm just going to forget them for now.

On Saturday, Princess E and Princess S have to play two piano songs for the MMTA piano festival. This is Princess E's third year, and if she earns a 5 out of 5 she can earn a trophy. This has been her goal. I told her that they are going to be a lot tougher on her this year. This is Princess S's first festival. The songs that she has had memorized for weeks are starting to slip through her memory. She could not play one of them at all for Grandma this weekend. Please pray that she won't be nervous and that she will remember both of her songs, as she cannot use music for the festival songs - the judges have it at their table.