Day Two....

Today is our hardest day on the paper route, but all went well and praise the Lord we were done and home way before it started to rain!!

Let's talk about spelling.  I am really enjoying the Spelling that I am using...such a simple approach.  Each lesson is "rule" and they have 15 words they are tested on each day.  They have to complete that same lesson until they have received 100% 2 days in a row.  That is the key...if they get all right and then the next day miss one then they start back and still has to get it all right 2 more times.  I believe that this concept is really simple, but I think that the repetition is going to really help all my kids with their spelling.  This week the lesson is i before e except after c and then there are those exceptions.  One of the fun sayings for the exception is weird is just too weird to follow the rule; seize, seized and seizure need to be seized and taken to jail for not following the rule.  This gives the kids something to think about when they are trying spell the word....and you know that those funny little sayings stay with you much longer than just wrote memory.

We are working on preparing for our Sabbath meal on Friday.  The kids are very excited about that.  Today we picked out a special towel to cover the callah bread.  We are going to be making our own oil candle later this week....still on a mission to find the wick for the candle.  Headed to Hobby Lobby tomorrow and hope to have success there.  We are all excited to see if we can follow the directions and that it actually works. 

Today Nattalie had Mandolin lessons and Johnathan had youth worship band practice.  Nattalie is sounding great on her Mandolin and Johnathan did such an awesome job at practice.  What a gift the Lord has given them.  Daniel has been asking to start to take electric guitar lessons.  John and I are not sure if this is the best thing....we are still praying about that.

Tomorrow will be a challenge because we will head to church with John in the morning and we will complete school at church.  The kids did all work ahead with their Math today so that they don't have to do Math tomorrow.  We did school at church some last year and it went well, but like I mentioned it was a computer based program.  So I will have to be more disciplined because I will need to give them 100% of my attention so that I am able to teach them the lessons for the week.  Praying that I am focused and don't get busy with different things at church.

Looking forward to watching the children's musical tomorrow night with the kids as we celebrate how well they did on Sunday morning.

Goodnight all....hope to post more tomorrow.