Lily is in 4th grade

 My beautiful 8 year old is in 4th grade this year and I am loving it! She has matured so much and it is fun to work with her! The only down side is that her work is a little harder and involves me to grade more and check work through out. 

Lily is doing a great job with writing this year. We have been doing several different things for reading and writing. Lily is using Abeka readers to join history and comprehension as she reads. We are working on rewriting the question in the answer. We are doing spelling. Also we are using First Language Lessons level 3 to work on diagramming sentences and learning grammar rules. Lastly, we are doing cursive, journal writing, free writing, and writing about the medieval times. 

This year Lily is still in Classical Conversations. She is a journeyman this year with the 8-9 year olds. She is in an all girl class. That is a fun twist this year and she loves it. Her class joins with an all boy class for science experiments and for review games. 

One of Lily's favorite things is to draw. Right now she loves the Rainbow Magic Fairy books. They are an easy read...only a 3rd-4th grade level so she can read a chapter book in about 20 minutes, but the point is that she loves to read them. She has lots of other books that she loves to read also, but those are her favorite. 

I really enjoy seeing her pictures. It is such a joy to watch our children grow up and gain skills. 

Here is a picture of the kids on the second day of Classical Conversations. 

We love doing activities with friends. One day, we decided to do a character education lesson. The children all drew pictures of themselves and then passed their pictures around. Each friend wrote words about that friend on their picture. We talked about how important it is to build each other up. 

 Lastly, I wanted to show a picture of Lily with her week 1 presentation for CC. She presented all about herself and made this poster as a prop. During week 2, she presented on her favorite book.