SONIC!

When you homeschool it is sometimes difficult to see success. You are with your children all day, you're the teacher, and it can become difficult to see progress. In September Amanda, Tyler and Jordan began memorizing what would ultimately be a total of 19 poems and 2 passages of scriptures. (We used the book Linguistic Development Through Poetry Memorization.) We told the kids in September that if they memorized all 19 poems and 2 scripture passages then we would celebrate with a special dinner out. TODAY WE GOT TO CELEBRATE! Today, all 3 children recited all the poems to Jeremy. We then went to Sonic for dinner. We celebrated by eating our dinner and ice cream in the car. All the kids thought this was extremely fun. I am proud of my children not only for memorizing the poems and scripture passages, but for also having a wonderful attitude about this assignment. No one ever complained about working on poems. They probably wouldn't admit it, but I think they even (at times) enjoyed learning the poems. I know they all enjoyed the reward for their hard work. I just announced that I was putting the book away till next year when we would start level 2 and Jordan exclaimed, "Let's start now!"