Progress and Adding One

Progress:

Today, we were practicing our cursive italic letters 'j' and 'p'. Tornado Boy held his pencil with a perfect tripod grip!!!!! I am over the moon! He usually has a thumb wrap! That thumb wrap makes me cringe to look at it. I don't know how he can write like that! But he's starting to build up the strength to write properly. Woohoo! He did this on his own. I hadn't told him to do it. I've been working with him using it on the white board with dry erase crayons, but not with pencil and paper yet.

Adding One:

The Brute told me last week that he wants to start Kindergarten when he turns 5 (November). I have been eying My Father's World Kindergarten for a while now, but thought it'd be too easy for him when he's actually "K" next year. It'd be perfect for him right now though. Well, since I was no longer using AAS, I decided to sell that and some diaper making fabric (I'm no longer making cloth diapers), and that was plenty to purchase MFW K. :) So we'll start that probably the first week of October. I'm quite excited about it! It looks fun, and I think The Brute will enjoy it. I got the Basic kit, but with some of the Deluxe items. I already have C-rods, I'm borrowing a butterfly garden, and I don't think we really need to do the ant farm (there are PLENTY of ants outside to watch). So I got the Basic kit plus the orchestra CD and the Cuisenaire Rods Alphabet Book, and then from Amazon I'll get the lowercase textured letters puzzle and the What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? book. My library has all but 2 of the books from the lit package, so I'll probably buy one and substitute the other. Not a big deal.