Progress
We went to Gospel Meeting last night, so we really did not have a lot of time to work on anything to do with homeschool. The one thing on which I did have a chance to work was working with Christian on his Math. Over the last two or three days, we have been doing a variety of math problems. He has his addition and subtraction down pretty good. It needs some drill, but all in all it is not a bad base from which to work. What he really needs most is to memorize multiplication and short division facts. The program we used with Kelly was absolutely excellent. I am going to start on that with him tonight. I think I will have him do addition and subtraction worksheets each morning and then I will teach him multiplication in the evening. Then toward the middle of the summer I will test him using the Singapore Math placement test. I really think he will fall into level 3A. I have looked at the program a little now and it looks great.
We have gone for several days now without working on our memorization. I am going to try to get the kids going again on that tomorrow as I will be driving up to Amity to pick up a machine Steve Davison built for us so we can take it to Newberg to be shipped to our factory in Caldwell tomorrow morning.
Both Kelly and Christian are playing in a piano performance festival in Salem today, so they will be out of school for half a day. I will try to post photos here of the performance here tomorrow if Lorena remembers to take the camera with her. Discussion of what to do about getting Christian up to speed with the idea of moving into third grade math next year