Homeschool

This week was a nice relaxing week and we completed our 8th week of homeschool! On Wednesday we spent the school day outside and Elijah even completed some of his work while sitting in a tree :) We watched fish jump from the pond and listened to the music of all the birds around us.

Faith is flying through her math book and will be finished way before the end of our first "semester". Thankfully we have 2 couples from our church who will be visiting in April so I'll try to order her the 1st grade book. It is fun watching her grow and learn each week! Faith's reading has been improving rapidly, but she is easily frustrated by longer words and will try to just guess rather than sound out the word. She is so good and obedient in school which her teacher loves and thankfully she loves school.

Elijah has discovered that he can't get enough of art and science. Bryan has been doing the weekly science experiments with the kids and Elijah looks forward to it. He loves to take his art papers outside and draw the nature around him. One day he even went to the maintenance building and drew a project that one of the men were working on. It turned out pretty good, and I think he has a little natural talent and it must be from my sister April :) because it isn't from Bryan or I! He also has been loving his reading books this year. He especially loved a book about the pony express and wished they still had the pony express so he could be a rider. Imagine his excitement when a friend from church told us that Lesotho has pony riders who bring medicine to the remote villages in the mountains. That is his new career choice at the time.

Mercy has just finished a preschool workbook I had brought from home. It had a little page in the back with a certificate to show she completed the book. Once I filled it out, she ran all over Beautiful Gate showing the staff members her book and saying "I finished preschool." If only it were that easy :) We have not done a ton of preschool work as she is only 3 but she already knows most of her alphabet and is always asking me to do school with her. She is such a cutie and loves to play "teacher" with me. I find that when we play teacher, she will do everything I ask so I am glad she came up with the game!

All that to say, we have enjoyed our first 8 weeks of school and I am thankful that God has found a way to make me become their teacher. It is not as scary as I thought it would be and I like finding ways to make it more fun for all of us so we don't get bored. Thanks for those of you who have been encouraging to us and for your prayers. God's faithfulness to us still amazes us each step of the way!