Satisfaction

Zeke and I completed a major task tonight. We finished up lesson #112 of Saxon Math level K. It is, indeed, the last lesson. We began mid-September and averaged about 12 lessons/month. Somehow, in February, I completely missed all lessons and have been playing catch-up ever since. There's a big whew!!! feeling pulsing through me. I am so proud of the little student. He's so much fun to be with when he thinks a new thought or learns a new skill. It's like the whole world unfolding for me through his eyes.

The next task we'll start soon: language arts with the Riggs Institute's 'The Writing and Spelling Road to Reading and Thinking.' It is rigorous, traditional, neurologically-based and Socratic. This method is quite effective in engaging the whole child at once: they hear, write, say and see each letter, each phoneme/grapheme. I have already used the phonemes to teach him basic reading. I now have to support that with the writing skill. To be fluent in any language, one must also be able to write it. It took me a long time to even get through the first 100 pages of the teacher's guide. I am excited and hopeful and a little nervous. But mostly excited.