Off To A (Somewhat) Great Start

So in my perfect little homeschooling world, my daughter would be the easiest child to ever teach. She would sit right down at the table (or wherever we decided to do our work) after being asked only one time, with a big 'teach-me-Mommy' smile on her face. She would listen very intently as I explained something and pay attention without interrupting twenty times and asking totally irrelevant questions. She would do her work like a good little student without complaining at all and we would be finished with everything we had to do in very little time. She would not scowl as I have her erase something that was not correct and would just happily do as I ask without making little huffy noises. Ahhhhh, sounds so tranquil and perfect, doesn't it?

So I'm assuming you have figured out that our first week has not gone quite like this. Ok, nothing like this, in fact. I happen to have a wonderful, but very opinionated and stubborn little girl. Oh how I love her!! :) Does she do all that I ask of her? Yes, she does (eventually) and for that I AM grateful - it could be worse I suppose.

As all of you who keep up with my blog know, I purchased our first formal curriculum for math. We have been doing it everyday this week and I am so proud of both of us. LOL We are actually going through it very quickly and skipping most of the repetitive stuff because it is just way too easy for her and she is very bored and says that it is "baby stuff". Next week we will be getting into more challenging things so I am hoping that might help a little bit with her attitude. Maybe it also has something to do with this just being the first week of school for us and getting into a routine. I guess we'll see.
I did get her spelling curriculum in the mail today and I was so excited! We will be adding that to the math starting next week. As for 'table work' that's all we will be doing this year.

Ok, so if anyone wants to send Brenna some encouraging words then by all means PLEASE DO! bmspear@sbcglobal.net

Hopefully it will be a better week next week. :)