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On Thursday each of the girls was kind of in their own space.  Emy spent much of her day coloring and drawing, but she has been picking up a bit of Nora's math lessons as well, because she really can count to ten now.  Before she would just make up numbers until she said 10 and then she stopped.  I was working with her everyday but it didn't seem to matter.  However just listening to Nora's math lessons seems to have been enough to teach her and that's been awesome to see.

Nora decided she wanted to do some of her work out on the couch so she could be more comfortable and not be in the "noisy" school room. I love the flexibility that we have in home educating to find things that work for them.  I'm still working on fully embracing that mentality because I like things more rigid in my own life, but I know that my kids are not me and they need different things at different times.

Molly was a champ with her work on Thursday and got done pretty quickly. I love sitting with her and knowing exactly what she is working on and how she is doing so that if needed we can incorporate things into others parts of our day as well. When she was in public school I didn't really feel like I had a real grasp on what she was learning.

Hadley is feeling much better now that she is on antibiotics (again...) for her ear infection.  I'm hoping she won't need to have tubes put in, but who knows.  Since she hasn't had to be held all the time this week, she has been enjoying drawing and erasing on the chalkboard.





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