Good Beginning

Not everything is perfect, but everything is going well. When Sam has a meltdown due to frustration, we have a structure to deal with it. He goes to his room until he calms down. Now it is up to him to reduce the frequency. The structure will help him feel safe and help me to keep my voice and emotion on an even keel.

We are reading about ancient American Indians and their cultures. Fascinating. I would not want to read this material to Sam if it were not in a book written by a Christian for Christian kids. This way, the author is able to condemn the practices that are evil (human sacrifice) without saying all of the culture was bad.

Sam needed to a reminder on how to add fractions without common denominators, but of course remembered it well with just showing it once. Tomorrow he will practice adding with negative numbers—the secret here is to make the number line vertical (babies learn about up and down before their first year of life is completed). For those of us who cannot keep left and right straight the vertical number line solves many issues.

I am very happy with how homeschooling is going. Thanks for those who were/are praying. We are doing well.