A New Year begins...

Well, our first 6 months or so of homeschool has ended, and we begin another. Baby No.1's spelling has greatly improved from the use of "Spell to Write and Read" and today I tested her on all the phonograms and she wrote them down correctly with very little trouble. Baby No.2 did the same with some simpler ones. Then it was keyword outlining practice for No.1 with a story of her choosing from an Usborne Stories of the World book. Baby No.2 practiced some cursive "qu"s and was very proud. I've purchased a set of Base-10 blocks and I'm painting them to match the colured beads of the Al-abacus that they use for RightStart Maths. Baby No.1 is progressing with visualising addition problems etc, and Baby No.2 now understands the concept and quantities of 100, and even had a game with herself skip-counting by 100s. The girls like to do work on the whiteboard, so I photograph their work every now and then which they really like. A good day today—very little conflict!