first day of school! or not!

 i found joey like this last week.  i cant see her hiding under the table with a can of peanuts.  didnt you know if you cover your eyes no one can see you?!  its a sneaky trick! ha

love this quote from church. so true

 so my parents joined us on sunday for a visit...and i promptly took off to meet my friend for lunch, and came home 3.5 hrs later. haha.  the kids were with chris but it was funny to say hi mom and dad. see you later!

so i thought id do the "official" first day of school.  with ZERO expectations.  i just showed ellie where her books were and new markers.  did some intro with nate and that was about it

tues was more review
wed was almost nothing
thurs i did a bit with ellie
fri nate did some work

but really. not much was actually done.  we are just having a very lazy start up...with chris on vacation and my parents here, and more company coming. its just too hard to try and start something.  once life slows down a bit and the cold weather comes im sure we will get into a routine of sorts.  i will say ellie is a JOY to teach. she LOVES learning and bugs me to do work with her.  its so odd to just sit down beside her, sip coffee, explain the lesson have her do it. and sing the whole time.  her little wolf joins us on her desk and when she's "done" she lets me know (usually after 5-6 work sheets) she's done with the book work and picks up her wolf and off we go to read.  she LOVES to read and is picking up quickly.  i havent photocopied her reading lessons yet, but at this rate i wont need them...joey being there is just FUN and frustrating.  i have enlisted nate to help keep joey busy for a 15 mins while i work with ellie. that is working out so maybe ill just keep with that

 no picture of joey, she was playing with nana

 working on her pencil holding skills. ha

nate has been AWESOME this week.  because we have no routine and no schedule his lessons were pushed to the side. i did give him some work to do on his own and like a responsible guy he went and did it!  no questions, no arguing.  so nice. 

it looks like next week will be a slack week too....oh well one day we will get to the books. ha

Posted by mel at 2:40 PM