School Update...

All three older sisters love school.

Savannah will be teaching with a sixth grade

science teacher and loves her!

Amelia has one class with all her best friends

and they have taken a pic of the group each day.

Rosemary LOVES high school

and has enjoyed cheer leading practice this week!!!

And then there's EK...

I will say the first couple of mornings

EK was a little difficult to motivate.

When I taught school,

I could say, "Oh just look how hard so and so is working"

and it would motivate the whole group. :)

Not so at home.

I had to come up with something.

While going through my school stuff in the garage,

I saw a container full of McDonald beany babies.

Knowing that EK is an avid animal lover

I brought them in and introduced her to

'The School Buddies".

(Made it up right there on the spot)

Her eyes were as big as saucers

and I could tell she was dying to touch them.

I let her choose one that would be her buddy

for the day and watch how hard she worked.

Can I just say~

it has worked like a charm.

Every time she has just a little inkling to slack

or complain or whine...

I mention putting School buddy back in the basket

and there is an immediate perk up. :)

Each day I read a story and we enjoy an art project that relates.

Today we read Two eyes, A Nose, and a Mouth.

It is a book that teaches how each person is special.

EK created a self portrait of herself

and wrote...

"I am special because I am from China."