Lucia finishes kindergarten!

We made it through kindergarten! I say we, because it was a joint effort between me and Lucia. Homeschooling was very rewarding in many ways, but also takes a lot of time and sacrificing of other things. She learned a lot in the past 5 months though! Here goes the brag fest! She has learned to read and has mastered at least 50 sight words. She can spell and write simple words, can dictate her own stories (and then copy them) and summaries of stories she's read. She has learned a lot in math; how to count money, add, subtract, patterns, time to the hour and half hour, can count by 2's, 5's and 10's, solve word problems, identify fractions, plane and solid figures, measurement...a lot! For Social Studies, our final project was learning about the seven continents. We made collages for each continent with pictures from magazines. There is just too much to list, but I think she's ready for first grade in the fall. We are currently number 2 on the waiting list for the school we want her to go to. If she doesn't get in, we may do homeschool again. It's hard, but she learned so much, it's hard to resist. We'll see what happens. I'm so proud of Lucia. She's such an eager learner and tries to do her best in all she does.