The Joy of Homeschooling

I can not begin to tell you how proud I am right now!  We started homeschooling Emma Kate 3 months ago.  I love her eagerness to learn!  We do several different things for school.  We have a workbook for shapes and colors, one for numbers, one for letters and one for matching.  We also have book time - this is where I will read aloud to her a book and then she will pick some books out and go and sit in her room and "read" to herself.  We also are learning Bible verses and at night Brian gets to participate with homeschooling by asking the Children's Shorter Catechism questions as well as reading our new book "Pilgrims Progress".  Again, we have only been at homeschooling for 3 months.  Today we finished our shapes and colors workbook!  Emma Kate now knows all of her shapes and colors.  She can tell you what they are as well as match them to different things.  While we are out running errands she can also point them out to you. Although we haven't yet completed our letter workbook - Emma Kate knows all of her letters and the sounds that they make.  I am so thankful to have this opportunity with her - to watch her grow and learn.  I wouldn't trade this time with her for anything in the world.

Michelle