The right curriculum = happy days!

So I'm not even sure if anyone even reads this anymore, especially since I haven't posted anything in forever. But I'm going to post this for the soul purpose of having something to look back on and remember that good days do exist! :-) We started our school year two weeks ago and I was seriously freaking out. I feel like there is so much pressure on me to get Mason to where he needs to be and my heart aches for him when I see him struggling so much. On the flip side I literally get so excited and joyful when I see him finally get something or pick up a book to read. I know that you have to take the bad with the good though. It also kinda scares me that the twins learning to read is all on me and if I don't succeed then they don't succeed and that just scares the living daylights out of me. The fact that they are so eager to learn though makes me stay focused and determined. :-)

So on with the happy days part. Hopefully I'm not speaking too soon, but we have FINALLY found the right curriculum!!!! YAY!!!! It makes for a much happier school day. :-) Mason has yet to fight me once this year, granted its only the 2nd week, but by this time last year we were both in tears and frustrated so this is a good thing. It helps that we have found something that works for him, thats always a good thing. lol We have had no fights, he understands everything so far, if he doesn't he asks and/or tells me he doesn't get it, he actually enjoys and asks to do his language program (which is done on the computer, how cool) and when taking breaks and coming back to his work he does it without me asking!! ALL GOOD THINGS!! I am absolutely in love with the books we have chosen this year!! Its a good variety of book work...which you can't avoid completely...and projects/hands on activities which he loves and learns so well with.

So at the end of week 2 all is well. He has aced his first Math test and is maintaining a A in language, which he has had no help from me with with the exception of how to run the program. :-) Science and Geography are all hands on with some reading, the hands on stuff he does well with but reading the chapters is another story. lol Okay so its not reading the chapters, its understanding what he read, but we're working on that. :-) If he can get his mouth to go as fast as his brain or the other way around we would be good...LOL. The joys of dyslexia! The twins are learning their vowels and know some letter sounds now. They have also learned their address and are working on handwriting! Overall...its been a good couple of weeks!

Week 2 Day 4 accomplished...only 27 weeks and 1 day to go!! But who's keeping count! Haha!! :-)