Tues. July 7

The boys are doing copywork. They drew "ink" spots and are pretending they are using quils and ink, and need to redip in their ink when it runs out:
Copywork is working really well right now-easier on me, and no backwards letters. Alex still sometimes forgets his spaces, so today I had him use a yellow highlighter to color in between the spaces he did right, and a pink highlighter (he told me it was RED, and not to ever call it pink) to color in the spots he should have used a space. I told him to try and get more yellow than "red" tomorrow.

I made addition flashcards on cardstock and we are working on memorizing the "2's". We started reading "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch." Nathan is not really interested, but Alex is.

Today Nathan said he liked reading to me. I was surprised. He wants to choose harder books above his level to be like Alex. I always worry about teaching reading to Nathan. I hope I'm doing it right. We are trying to balance sight reading books with decoding books.

In Grammar, we are memorizing a poem about a caterpillar:
Brown and furry,
caterpillar (pronounced "calapitter") in a hurry.
Take your walk
to a shady leaf or stalk.
Let no toad spy you
May the little birds pass by you
Spin and die
To live again a butterfly.