School: Week Five

Week five was rough.  We were only in the school room one day last week thanks to major foundation work on our house.  We spent lots of time practicing folding laundry, watching National Geographic on the iPad, and doing anything we could to drown out the sounds of jackhammers tearing through the floor downstairs.  I was too busy holding onto my sanity to take many pictures.

Every day starts like this.

New lacing work.

Texture dominos!  She really loves these.

She is working hard on lowercase letters.  It is challenging for her to go through the steps of tracing the letter with her fingers, then convincing her hand to write the letter, as opposed to just drawing the shape she sees.  I really enjoy observing this work.  It's a very real mental and physical challenge for her.

One of her confidence boosting works, counting.

They love working together.

My husband was away on business all week, so the girls and I were stuck at home "supervising", but we had no access to the playroom, schoolroom, or any part of the yard.  There were six foot deep holes on every side of the house, in the playroom and kitchen (at the base of the stairs that lead to the schoolroom), and they pulled up the back deck and destroyed the yard.  We are left with a level house, but no deck, no yard, and no floor in the playroom.  Thankfully, the girls don't seem to be nearly as traumatized as I am.