Reading Lemony Snicket
We're still here and still homeschooling! I'm going to make more of an effort to post to this blog -- especially since we try to do more "fun" things in the summer (although we do have school year round).
Right now Maddie is hooked on the Lemony Snicket books and has read through the first and is in to the second -- The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 2). The stories are quite tragic in a comical way (a dark Adams Family, if you will) and I love that they use some amazing vocabulary words. These books are certainly not dumbed down for kids -- but they always explain these big words and even some idioms.
Other than that, we've been working on multiplication and after several months spent doing a little each day, Maddies has memorized her times tables up to 12 X 12. Whew! All I can say about multiplication is that you have to keep at it -- every day. While I'm glad we are through with it, the next challenge is division -- yikes!











