This will be short and sweet. Joshua has been steaming ahead with his reading and penmanship tasks from his second homemade reader. He will finish that this week, and next week we'll move on to the third unit from Phono-Graphix, the last on the "Basic Code".
If we manage to get the third unit done before Feb next year, we'll be pretty much where I had hoped to be. We started reading lessons slowly this year with a few setbacks as I realised Joshua could segment but wasn't really ready for blending activities. I plan to continue reading and writing lessons through the official school holidays because I don't want him to forget too much.
We've been doing some more follow up after Bible Study and Sunday School with narrations and colouring pictures for the kids' Make-Your-Own Bibles, which the kids have enjoyed as well. I am impressed with how much Joshua recalls of stories he has been told. Anna is also quite good at listening carefully and retelling at least the basics, which is absolutely all you could ask from a three-year-old.
I am starting to get together a Bible story list to work through next year with the kids. I think I'll read each story from a Story Bible while the kids colour a related picture. Then Jeff will read the same story from the NIV to the kids that night over dinner and discuss gospel links and life applications with them. We might also work on teaching them some of the songs we sing in church, so that the kids can join in a bit more.
Table Time has been a bit haphazard this week but we did have some fun with jigsaws:
And that's about it.
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