History has been fun so far this year with Thumper. We first learned about maps and globes and then we were quickly on our way to discovering American History. She has learned about the first American, explorers, pilgrims and we finished the quarter learning about colonial times. For Read Alouds this year I am altering the schedule in Sonlight, because a few of the ones assigned in HBL K are duplicates from when we did HBL A last year. So, I have done some shifting and I have also added in Magic Treehouse books to fill in any gaps and we have read Thanksgiving on Thursday this quarter. So far this year, in our read alouds from sonlight, we have read Anna Hibiscus, Love From Anna Hibiscus, The World According to Humphrey and Lulu and the Dog from the Sea.

All About Reading Level 2 is going well for Thumper as well. I do believe she is catching onto other concepts of reading beyond what we are learning in this level. She brought along a couple of books this trip and I have caught her reading aloud words we have not really covered, yet, which is exciting to hear, and melts this Momma Bears reading, loving heart. She is already passed lesson 19 this quarter, which was fast than the goals I had laid out for her. I have decided to go ahead an add in the readers from Sonlight level 1 readers this next quarter.

Thumper started the Beta level in Math U See. So far this year she has practiced Sequencing, place value notations, inequalities, multiple digit addition, rounding and estimating, addition with regrouping and skip counting by 10. She seems to be catching on really quick and enjoying this math level.

Thumper turned 7 while we were in transition from Wisconsin to North Carolina. We were able to celebrate with friends of ours along with family. She has also lost a few teeth this quarter as well, which she has been excited about as well.