Back to School

D1 and I are starting to get into the flow of things. Hey, today was only day 3 of school, and Monday we spent the day at the fair, so it wasn’t a sit-down day at all. He and D2 both started swimming lessons too, and they loved it. D1 loves his math

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LLATL…

I’ve always wanted to try LLATL. Always! It’s one of those “If I had it to do all over again, I’d…” Well, “use LLATL” is really one of the things on my list. Now that D1 is starting first grade, I can try it. Still I’m not sure if I want to. I

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He’s Reading!

D1 and I have been pretty faithfully working on his phonogram cards, and he just finished List A in The WISE Guide for Spelling.  We spent about three weeks on List A, doing half (10 words) at a time and working at it until he had the words completely.

I pulled

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