We all woke up to chocolate treats this morning.
It was nice.
My parents went all out and got us chocolates even though we don't exactly celebrate Valentine's Day.
It was very sweet of them!
Claudia got a bouquet of sugar free lollipops. :)
She can't have chocolates because of her heart.
Right now the kids are working on their Math skills and it's going pretty good.
They are prepping up for their annual evaluations, so they are doing test prep material instead of their usual curriculum.
It's pretty neat because they get the do like 3 or 4 problems per skill, and there are like 10 skills to cover. Every day they do 3 or 4 of everything so they don't forget how to do it for the test.
Because the test prep material is divided into rows with letters, they can do one row of each skill per day.
Spectrum books are wonderful.
We are covering fundamentals of Ancient Civilizations by playing a board game.
American History and States are being covered by using blank maps and filling them in, while they listen to the material during story time.
I think story time History works ten times better and helps them remember facts so much more. After I tell the story and they copy their vocabulary for the day, then they get to answer questions from their workbook.
My kids do enough reading time, so History story time makes the class more fun.
For Science class we are also using the Spectrum Test Prep.
I'm not too worried about Science, though.
My kids are pretty much solid when it comes that subject.
They are Science freaks like me.
Beautiful day!
My parents went out to Sea World with Emma and we might join them later when the kids are done.
I wonder if I should make reservations at one of their restaurants...
Hmmmm.
Let me make a few calls to see what's available.
