Katherine's school- age 3 1/2

I just started school with Katherine. We started "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons". That book didn't work so well with squirmy Nathan, but it is working beautifully with Katherine! She wants to read so bad like her brothers. She asks to do her reading lesson every day. Right now she's on lesson 22! I don't always make her do one lesson in a sitting. Sometimes we just do a half of a lesson, and sometimes we go back and redo a lesson. She gets a small treat, like a little marshmallow for each time she sits down to do reading with me. She also crosses a box off her chart, and when she has 10 boxes crossed off, she gets to get a big treat or prize: a cookie, a toy at the dollar store, etc.  They have little "stories" for them to read, so I copied the last 10 stories and cut out just the stories and pictures, then we colored them and glued them onto construction paper, then made a front cover with a picture of her on the front, then stapled the book together for her own book she can read. She's read it two times since we made it last night. We also like to make other "books"- one we made was a book of colors. I wrote each color on the top of each page, and she cut pictures out of magazines and put them on the correct page. Then we made a cover and stapled it together. Anything we can make into a book, we do because we both have fun with it.

I also found a website for preschool to 8th grade math http://www.ixl.com/math/grades . So she does math in the preschool category on the website, usually with me by her side helping her. I'm sure there are funner things, but this is easy, and she likes it. I don't make her do it, she does it when she wants to.

I'm having her memorize Articles of Faith. She has the first and half of the second memorized so far. She can play the scripture mastery games with the boys, and just says Article of Faith 1 or 2.

I plan to have her dictate a journal to me at least once a week, maybe on Sundays since that's journal day. That will help her with her writing when she gets bigger, and it's just cute to save.

She also started writing with tracing her name http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/flash/printdots/index.htm and the "Handwriting Without Tears" prewriting workbook.

I have a book "Everybody has a Body" http://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Has-Body-Science-Head/dp/0876591586/ref=pd_sim_b_5 and Mudpies to Magnets (another preschool science book) but I never have time to do it.

She also has fun with dancing class and horsebike riding.