Is the Honeymoon Over???

The last couple of days have gone more the way I thought most homeschooling days would go. Julia has been more like the Julia we all know. She is less agreeable and she is doing things in the morning that set the tone for the rest of the day. Today it was waking up way too early and then proceeding to make a HUGE mess in the bathroom. Its really hard to "forget" her earlier "mistakes" and be easy going and encouraging the rest of the morning. Her work has also been a bit rushed and sloppy. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with how hot it has been and the fact that we have not been going for our morning walks/bike rides/park playtime. Anyhow, she did take a math review test and scored a 96% (although I'm not assigning grades to her). We have also finished all the capital letters and the numbers in her handwriting book. Her reading skills are improving and she is reading more, and liking it. We have been putting quarters in our wall quarter map. I've been surprised by how many states she remembers. She knows California because she knows it is where we live. She knows that her cousins, Emma and Andrew, live in Oregon. For some reason she knows that Washington is north of Oregon. That Sam Beaver in Trumpet of the Swan spends his summers in Montana. She knows that E.B. White lived on a farm in Maine. She knows that her cousins, Isaac, Grace and Hayden live in New York now. She knows that her cousins Austin and Kielyn live in Florida. And then she remembers that Daddy went to Georgia last year on a business trip. She just seems to have her way of knowing and remembering many, many states (more than I've listed here).

Karley's school has a field trip to Apple Hill next Friday. I told Julia today that if she works hard so that we feel we can afford to take a morning off next Friday that we can go on the field trip. Always good to have a little leverage....