Homeschool post

[mommydama]

I think I'm finally completely sold on the idea of intensive phonics. I do not like the way Mari is learning sight words in Calvert right now. It makes it easier for her to read beginning readers I suppose, but she is constantly guessing words based on the first letter and reversing letters when she writes. She isn't decoding as much as I'd like, though I am supplementing with Spalding phonics as much as I can. Both Zoe and Luci are learing more phonics from writing (coming to me and saying "how do you write...?" and then sounding it out with me) then anywhere else. I think the writing to spell and read concept really seems to fit with how they are all learning anyway. So...I'm pretty definate about trying the Spell to Write and Read program next year. It is a hefty investment, but I just keep reminding myself that it is the only thing we need for the first three or four years for phonics/grammar/spelling. And I've seen people sell the program on the yahoo group really quickly, so I think if we hated it I could get some of my money back.

I received the Children's Bible Reader I ordered for the girls today. I'm so excited about this thing. A children's story bible that tells the stories from an Orthodox perspective. I can't even express how wonderful that is. Not only for the girls...but for me too!

I want to get started on all this stuff RIGHT NOW! I'm sooooo not good at waiting.

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[mommydama.livejournal.com]

Being kind of facetious.

I have several really, really close friends who fall rather far to the liberal/left side of most things that can be politicized, and I try hard to understand their points of veiw. I usually think of myself as a moderate about politics, but more and more I'm discovering that things I didn't even know were politicized or polarized like that, I will fall far to the "conservative" or "right" side in my opinions. I'm not coming to those conclusions based on any politic rhetoric either...but entirely on the outside of the politcs of whatever it is. And I'm just always a little shocked by how conservative I am when I land, while actually trying to be moderate. Heh.