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09/19/2005 Archived Entry: "Dances with rain"

I like the spelling program we've been using as a trial run this week. It's self correcting in that say the first word is "thinner" after she writes the word, I spell it for her and if she's right, yay, and if not, she writes it properly. Then the next word would build on that and be "sinner" so if she only wrote one N in thinner, she can apply what she learned and come to the [correct] conclusion that there would be two Ns in sinner as well. Though it's loads of fun to come up with a sentence for sin, sinning, sinner and so forth. Today she even had Mr. Skinner, lol. But it's going well so I am definitely ordering it.
As of today, Tabitha has finished her cursive book! I still don't have a scanner, so I'll see if I can get a pic of a sample of her work tomorrow to share. I'm going to wait about 6 months and then order a review work book so she can work on fine tuning her letters. The only thing she has issues with is the o-r connection, lower case k, capitals I and J. Other than that it's all just lovely and I'm so proud of her. She chose to learn cursive and worked hard at it. The beauty of homeschooling :)

There was far off rain this afternoon so we were fortunate to see a beautiful rainbow. Tabitha had just been talking about some wishes of hers to be a fairy and so forth so I told her that rainbow was just for her. A little bit of real life magic. The lighting was perfect so I took some pictures of Daisy sitting on the slide. I put her hair in a tiny little top knot on top of her head and wanted to capture the look. She's shaping up to be just as good as Tabi and sits on the counter and lets me play with her hair and never once fusses about it. Anyway, she enjoyed feeling the grass beneath her feet and was not even a little bit concerned that her mom was in a very awkward position waiting to get the perfect pose. I had to enlist Tabitha's help who was more than happy to oblige my request that she jump up and down and generally act like a fool so as to get her sister to actually look at the camera. I just snapped away and am pleased with the end results. I need to get that kid back in a studio though.

Just as bedtime rolled around, the rain started here to accompany the thunder storm. I grabbed Tabitha's hand and took her out to the driveway so she could dance in the rain which is one of her fondest desires. As far as I'm concerned, summer storms offer the perfect opportunity. We were greeted by a full on zig-zag lightening bolt and deafening thunder. I think it was a nice ending to the day.