Just a cat and a dog?

We wrapped up our 2nd unit last Friday and surprisingly made it through the whole unit in one week. This may be because I had not learned my lesson yet in our "A is for Musk Ox," unit to leave well enough alone. Cause you know curriculum writers don't know what they're doing anyway so, obviously I needed to add a few things to it, right? Ha. 

They get paid to do that stuff and we paid for both the curriculum and the convienance so I've had to learn to stiffle my instinct to supplement with material from the library and worksheets from other sources laying around my house.  The result being of course that we were able to get everything done when it was suggested without being stressed. Imagine that!

So here is what the girls learned last week:

What a character in a book is, character differences between cats and dogs, how to use a Venn diagram, how to write upper and lower case "H," and its sound, retelling a story, acting out a story, how to read "he," how to tell the difference between more and less and beginning addition, describing characters, painting a picture of an activity, practiced writing her name, and learned that names begin with capital letters. We also reviewed number recognition for 1-20 and writing numbers 2 and 3. Whew! All from what I thought would be a boring book about a cat and a dog.

I can't believe they are learning so much. We are moving into our third unit this week and with the amount of information they have already learned it seems like we've been at it for months. Even Lydia surprised me and read the sight word flash cards for the past 2 weeks. She is so into the lessons now she initiates in the morning and pretends to give daddy lessons after dinner about we learned that day.  And Delores, learning is so effortless for her now. Teaching, learning, homeschooling, it's all so enjoyable now. Following God's choice for the right curriculum for us has been the best decision I've made since I said yes to Josh's marriage proposal.

So yeah, last week was much better. So far I can say that bad week we had was just a fluke.