This past week was just focusing on academic stuff. I'm still hoping we can get to AO Year3 by January. It's looking pretty good. W is still enjoying the work - and that's what matters. He takes the lead. I show him what's on the agenda for the week and he picks what he'd like to do each day. He had a part in choosing the curriculum and he can choose what the mornings look like. It's great. I love that he owns his learning. And because of that, he retains just about everything. It's common sense, it works, and everyone's happy.
So in math, we're doing decimals involving money, using the cents and dollar signs, and adding/subtracting decimals. W is resigned to only use the TT5 workbook. The company isn't too keen on just selling the book by itself, so thankfully we already own TT7 (which we'll start next year for 5th grade). After that, we'll see. We're almost finished with The Little Duke (he's already getting sad about it coming to an end, lol) and we're going strong with Wind in the Willows, An Island Story, Seabird, & Pagoo. The Spelling Skills workbook is our favorite, still. W just finished a cumulative review of the first 6 chapters and got everything right. The activities and repetition in that book are just what he needs to build his reading vocabulary. I already have the 5th grade one, too. For $6.95 ($5.21 with educator discount!) it's amazing.
I plan on taking W on a lot more field trips soon. I keep a list of over 80 museums in NYC. I'd love to try and get to at least one a month. There are so many we haven't seen yet. I'll get fresh batteries for my camera and be sure to take lots of pictures.
The girls are doing great. K's birthday is in a few days and she's already starting the celebrations. I can't believe she's almost 17. On Friday night she went out with friends to a Mexican restaurant where they sing Happy Birthday in Spanish, lol. She has work both weekend days and loves that it's a short school week. We're in the process of getting college applications out. She has a few ideas as to where she wants to go and seems on top of it all. I'm so glad her college applications are a year after J's high school applications. I would have went crazy if they were during the same year.
J's still loving school. Her grades have been wonderful and she's made dozens of friends. I can already tell the difference in J's dancing since she's been at school. 15 hours a week of ballet and modern technique really does wonders. Her solo for this season's competitions looks so great. It's a lyrical/contemporary number from one of the studio's special choreographers from California. She's so happy with it - more so than she's ever been with her solos. She is also about to start choreography for a new duet. She'll be doing this one with her bff and duet partner from last season. It's going to be "fierce", as I'm hearing, lol. Competition season is right around the corner. Can't wait.
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