It's FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sitting here in my chair wondering what fun stuff we'll do this weekend. Well, besides grocery shopping, laundry, and grading papers. Probably not much. Oh, I will finish up the girls' mini office lapbooks. They are larger lapbooks with lots of facts in them. Piper's has the continents with their countries in them so she can start learning some geograpy, a list of presidents, a periodic table, multiplication tables, roman numerals and a really cool target digram that describes where we live. Zoie's has letters and sounds, sight words (for which I have pictures), addition and subtraction tables, colors/words and numbers/words. I'll try to post pictures when I get them done.

Right now, my biggest struggle is Piper's organizational skills. They are NonExistent. And extremely frustrating for me. I have her school work divided into five folders; 1 for each day of the week. And she still gets confused and loses stuff. I finally got all the textbooks de-spined because I'd rather her lose a page, than the whole book. I am working on helping her, but it is SO FRUSTRATING.

I obviously need to spend MORE time going through her papers. Today, she told me she was done. As I went through her folders for the week, I found quite a bit of unfinished work. Some of it was the back of the page, some of it was just not done. Of course, this put her in a bad mood. And she didn't want to do science because the animals were gross (jellyfish, mollusks, earthworms,etc). Sorry, still has to be done!

Overall, not a BAD week, but really not a great one. HOpefully, next week will be better, maybe even great!