Faith and School

I had to rehearse this morning for the Rite of Welcoming into the Catholic church. This Sunday I make the big leap. It is funny how I have ended up here but completely right for me. I am really happy. I still have a few months before I am totally accepted into the church and can partake of communion or Eucharist. I have arranged for the kids to be with me but not left alone to freak out in their pew when I go up to the front. They will sit with Tracy, the head of the CCF and my sponser. She is great. Hopefully, I will remember the 2 lines I have to say to the priest and not do anything stupid.

We read the rest of Tom's Midnight Garden today, that took about an hour and half of our morning. I gave spelling tests and both of them passed this week so therefore have won an hour of game time. Yesterday I spent some time going over Abi's math work, grading some of it as well. She is having such an easy time of it that I went ahead and tested her for the year, which she scored very well on. We will jump ahead to year 5 work. I probably should have done this a few months ago but it really isn't a bad thing for her to have done extra repetition in the stuff she is learning. It just solidifies it more for her I think. Aaron finished year 2 maths, for which I tested him and he passed with flying colours. He has now begun Year 3 maths and so far has enjoyed completing his lessons interactively online. I will have to print out some lessons however to be able to present something to the school board if they should ask (but they probably never will).

They have both gotten on with their math and reading assignments in their own time lately. They know what needs doing and just do it. It is rather wonderful not having to hound them to do it. They may not do it first thing but they get to it. They take breaks when they need to and still get it done. It has made for a much more harmonious school day! I wish I would have trusted them to do that ages ago.

Aaron has spent a considerable amount of time drawing up his new Pokemon over the last few days. Abigail helped him arrange his pictures in a new folder he bought especially for them. She also reorganised his Pokemon cards in another new folder (I bought him a new one as his old one broke and it really wasn't his fault). She loves to organise things and Aaron loves to get help! It is nice to see them working together on things. She made up some little cards for his card file of his new Pokemon as well which he is very happy about.