Well we survived our first week of school! It's been a good week. We're both really enjoying Sonlight's curriculum. Matthew has put his memory verse into practice this week: "Pay attention, my child, to what I say. Listen carefully" (Proverbs 4:20). Handwriting is going to be a big stumbling block, I can tell. He doesn't resist doing it, he just really struggles with it. In his Developing the Early Learner book, he is excelling at everthing... except the motor skills. He's got a stellar memory, he easily follows the directions, but he can't control a pen to save his life. I know it will get better with time, and it makes me even more thankful to be able to homeschool him so he can work on it at his own pace.
Anyway, he has enjoyed learning about winter and snow in his science book. He loves reading the Mother Goose rhymes. Probably his least favorite are the "fables," (Lion Storyteller Bedtime Book) simply because there's one picture on the entire page of text and he loses interest easily. I use that book to teach him about sitting still and listening 
Since he completes his reader work so easily, we used this week to focus hard on whether a sentence ended with a period or question mark. Previously, he had just been reading the words and stopping when a line ended. So now he's working on continuing on until he sees some form of punctuation, and also to make it sound like a question if there's a question mark. It's hit or miss, but he's enjoying the adventure.
And we have to play Go Fish and Steal the Pack daily. He loves matching the numbers and making pairs. It's fun for me to feel like I'm playing somewhat of a "grown up game" - a nice break from Candyland, Hi Ho Cherry-o, etc.
So that's the first week of our journey. Here's to many more!
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