First couple days

Yesterday and today went really well. :) Rachel likes her new English curriculum, but thinks the new Reading is "too long." I think it's good for her though, and not as long as she thinks it is. If she motivated herself enough to just sit down and get it done, it wouldn't seem as long. I like it for it's new vocab words, reading selections from Bible stories, comprehension, and phonics. All her other subjects, like I've mentioned before, are the same ol' that she's been doing. We recently skipped 3 lessons in Alpha! We started the subtraction unit in there, and she's already been doing subtraction in A beka. . .so I figured the first few lessons would be TOO easy. Sure enough, I gave her all three tests for the first three subtraction lessons without actually going through the lessons, and she got 100% on all of them. . .so we moved on! I don't want to waste time teaching something she already knows and is good at.

Same with Michaela. . . same workbooks she's been working out of. Although, in September, Michaela will begin some new books as well. Those include, the Skill Sharpeners workbooks for reading and math in preschool level; and Rod and Staff's preschool series. We've started tracing letters and numbers. . .learning how to write them. She's doing much better than she was doing in the spring where she wouldn't trace it properly, if at all. Still have lots of room for improvement and learning in writing, but she's improved tremendously in the past few months, and I'm happy with her progress. Her left handed scissors came in the mail a few weeks ago, so she's been learning how to cut and paste as well. Coloring frustrates her. . . you'd think she'd love to color with being left handed and all. . .aren't lefty's supposed to be artsy? lol She loves to draw free handed, just hates coloring in a picture. I think her frustration comes in when she can't stay in the lines since her fine motor skills aren't sharp enough for that yet.

Brandon gave them their blessings on Sunday night, and mine on Monday morning.

A couple first day pics. I'm putting up two since one of them, Rachel looks better, and the other Kayla looks better: