Twenty-Five Days
Twenty-five days of school this year, and we’re doing well.
We’re more or less where I’d like us to be for spelling. Spelling is still her biggest weakness, so we’ll likely double up on a step sometime next week. This week we aren’t doubling up because we’re going to be doing a comprehensive review, which includes the words that are already filed under “Mastered.” So, I think that if we can do an “extra” step each week for the next four or five weeks, we’ll be at a good place by the time the baby makes her appearance.
All of the other subjects are going really well. The only exception to that is science, and we are once again falling behind schedule where science is concerned. I can’t really find the time for it some days and other days it seems just like so much work. Still, we need to catch up before November, so that’ll be on the agenda in the next few weeks.
The biggest annoyance so far this school year? Book ten of Developmental Math is backordered. I have the solutions manual but not the student book. Since the solutions manual is the student book but with the answers added in green type, I’m having to scan in each page, use Photoshop to remove the answers, and then print out each page. I can’t put off Level Ten for longer, and since it’s backordered at the publisher, there’s no guarantee as to when we might possibly see it. In terms of good news, though, I scanned and printed all of the work for the coming week today, and when I was done with that, I was more than halfway through the book. So, I suppose one could say that there is a light visible at the end of the tunnel. It’s not hard to do, it’s just sheer drudgery.
