Annie is loving preschool. There are only 10 children in the class; but, the break-down required a co-teacher. Six boys, four girls. Apparently there was some significant wildness in the class. That's not to say "boys are wild, girls are not" because I know from personal experience that's not true. The teacher said it is the combination of boys - they feed off one another. When we ask Annie, "Who did you play with today?" The answer is always, "Penelope and all my girls." Penelope is one of the girls in the class. She and Bitsy have become fast friends. Danielle and Happy are the other girls. Drew is the one boy Annie will play with. It's a cute group of kids.
School is going well for the big girls. They are loving history (Story of the World, Part One). We read the story of making mummies last week and I think we'll be there for another week. The girls are fascinated by all things mummy-related now. We'll be checking-out some books at the library to do some more reading on the pyramids and mummies. That'll be fun. Katherine is becoming more confident in her ability to read. The sweet girl has wanted to learn to read since she was three...and now that she knows how, she's scared to do it! I'm trying to encourage her as much as possible. Elizabeth is blowing through library books, so we'll be starting chapter books this year. I'm going to start with the original Boxcar Children and will use the comprehension guide from Veritas Press.
I'm also hoping that we'll get to the All-of-a-Kind Family series by Sydney Taylor, which were some of my favorite books when I was a little girl. I found a discussion/activity guide for the first book in the series. I'm afraid many publishing houses would consider them too "old-fashioned" for today's children. That is precisely why I love them, though.
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Alyssa read "All-of-a-Kind Family" a few years back. I checked it out of the library instead of buying it and when I went to check out, the librarians all RAVED about that book and said it was one of their favorites. I had never really had that kind of reaction when checking out a library book. I thought it was interesting.
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