First, I didn't have any school supplies gathered from this summer's sales. So we took a trip to Target last week. Apparently if you miss the sales, they punish you raising the prices on everything. And then they raise it more. So you're really paying three times more than you would at any other time. And I refuse to do that, when I know during a back to school sale I can get a box of crayons for $.25. Not $3. So we went to Staples, who was still more expensive than a good sale, but their crayons were only $1 a box. I then assembled the school boxes, re-organized the school drawers, and gathered their books.
It took me a few days to track down all of Edmund's book, because some were upstairs. In the "storage room" that's storing everything and anything while we are working on the other upstairs room. It's been a year now since we started that, so the "storage room" is quite the disaster. I did locate one of the books I wanted, but had to order two more from Amazon to complete his curriculum.
And then today we pulled all the books out and broke open the crayon boxes.
Since Valentine is older she has more books, books that actually require more than coloring. Her school work takes a lot longer than Edmund's. And Edmund is always left wanting to do more. So today we lined up these wood animals/things that each have a letter on them. And then we counted them as he put them back into their bag. And Valentine was still doing her work. I try to convince him that he can be done and go play. It doesn't work. But he decides to play at Project Runway and design some outfits for the woodkins. (Thrift store find! Love them!)
Valentine did fine with everything. We're still working out of the phonics book she started in the middle of last year, but she has a new math book, science, history, and spelling. The spelling is the most challenging so far, but it's such a short book that we can take our time and expand on the work pages it has. I put off the history for today, I decided that I need copies of the pages so Edmund can also work on it.
