Today was a good day

12/8/14.  After about a week or two of sickness from someone and school being low key-still done but not as much I was very surprised at the cooperation I received today from E.  W was tired but still did the work only complaint was the math.  So today we started with Sign.  For those that do not know we are watching Signing Time on Netflix.  It is great.  The kids and I are learning a lot and they are engaged while watching it.  We watch 10min. at a time.  That seems to be what works best.  We then immediately moved onto nutrition.  My mom gave us a workbook about how to be healthy so right now we do a few pages from that.  I read and they do the activity.  We then moved right onto All About Reading.  I started with W.  Today was a read this story day.  He did pretty well.  He read out loud without me right there.  His choice.  I am very proud.  E did very good also.  I think it might have helped that he heard the story first while his brother was reading but I am still very proud and this time he did remember to ask how many pages.  It was  win.  Then we took a break for Lunch.  Next on the list was Spanish.  We reviewed the words for hands, nose, and ear.  We then learned the words for foot, face, and hair.  Next moved onto All about spelling.  Right now we are still working on the sounds and we started working on the last sounds of a word like mouse (the sound is s).  We will continue with the last sounds as they have a tendency to say the first sound instead of the last.  Then another break.  Next up Math.  Today we had a worksheet at the end.  W was tired and complained throughout the process but did it.  E just wanted help on the worksheet.  My goal is to get the to do those without my help since they have the abacus and know how to use it.  They had a 5 min. break before First Language Lessons.  Today was had some dictation.  E is getting good about doing the writing without hassle I never thought I would see the day.  Both did good writing from dictation.  I only spelled the words and told them when it was a new word.  I am proud.  Today was a good day.