So, today ends the official first week of ohva for us. Lydia's flying through lessons, and Melissa is doing OK. She's a bit behind in phonics/LA but that's expected for her, she's been struggling in that area for a while. I had a talk with her teacher, and she wants to do a session online with Melissa to get information about how she's doing in that area to possibly move her down to K phonics/LA instead of 1st grade. Scott and I totally expected it, so we aren't objecting at all about it.
She also told us to just do the weekly assessments with Lydia in phonics/LA until we hit her place, so today we are doing the week 5 assessment with her. She's also doing a couple lessons at a time in math, but is doing really well with it. She's almost finished her first unit in math lol
Melissa really loves doing her history, science, art, and music lessons though. She thinks they are an absolute blast to do. We have some really pretty artwork already created and she's having fun reviewing what we learned in our first science lesson about measuring in centimeters vs. using your foot or handspan (or other things like that)
We also started soccer this week. Last night was Melissa's first practice, and tonight is Lydia's. Melissa has practice twice a week until the first game, then its once a week on Tuesdays. I'll get Lydia's practice schedule tonight. A dear friend of mine, her 6yo daughter and 5yo son are on my girls' teams, so if practices are the same day we have it covered lol We are playing in the local AYSO league, and I am loving it. Melissa's coach is tough but very understanding of kids who've never played before (like Melissa) and he has his assistant coach working with the new kids on basic kicking and such. I have to remember to put batteries in my camera and take it with me to the next practice so I can share a couple pics on here for you to see her in action. I'm really excited about being a soccer mom, as silly as that may sound. I know also that the girls are going to do great once they get the hang of playing. Melissa had a blast last night, although she was sooooooo tired after practice that she basically shovelled in her supper and then went to bed lol I hope tonight Lydia has fun, and actually goes out on the field to play instead of just clinging to me like she usually does. I'm going to try and get there early so that she can get used to the other kids and her coaches before practice starts, then maybe I can get her kicking her ball a little and that may help her get into the mood of playing. She's the one who needs the social outlets that I'm providing so many of, and the main reason I'm juggling 2 in soccer, 2 in girl scouts, and doing AWANA (any kid old enough will go off to their classes while I volunteer in the nursery, taking care of the ones too young to participate while their parents lead groups) I overscheduled our activities like that to try and get her some social outlet, she is the most ANTISOCIAL child I've ever seen. I think she'd rather eat spiders than interact with people, so I'm giving her opportunities (and likely wasting our money at the same time) and praying that eventually she'll come out of her shell.
Oh, and if you want to see how we spent yesterday morning, go check out my friend Tristan's blog for pictures of her "NOT back to school" gathering. It was a total blast!
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