August 4 - August 10

This week we officially started back to school for the 2025-2026 school year!! 

Meghan was especially excited to be diving into the middle ages this year in history. It's been one of her favorite time periods to read about in the past and now she gets to study it as a part of school! 

Katie is learning cursive this year using grooved handwriting books to help her hands (which lack the bone and muscle development expected at her age) to form the letters correctly while learning. 

Her new art curriculum asked Meghan to try drawing with just her mouth - needless to say, it didn't go well and she has a new appreciation for the skills of Joni Erikson Tada. 

Fourth grade has brought a step up in the amount of reading expected of Katie each day. And she has happily risen to the challenge. She also made a lapbook this week about major types of geographical land forms - lapbooking is her happy place, which is good, because we have a lot planned for this school year. 

We are trying a new spelling program this year that teaches spelling words by sound rule and is on the computer. So far, so good. 

Katie worked on cross stitch during her handwork time and much of her free time and completed this cat keychain. She has several other cat and dog cross stitch kits and is already busy working away on her next one. 

Logic games - Katie decided to start the year with Cat Crimes and trying to decide who is responsible for causing the mayhem in the house.

First science experiment of the year - Meghan planted cat grasses in a terrarium in her room as a part of botany. To say she was excited by this project would be a complete understatement.

All-in-all, we had a great first week back to lessons. Not all parts of all subjects were loaded into the days yet, but what we did worked well and the girls did great!