Week One Came to a Close with out much of a Hitch!

I should have written this at the beginning of the week but I have been busy trying to rework some things.

Week One went well except for one minor thing. Organization was Lacking. Both Andrea's and mine!   I thought I had this area secured however, my little Munchkin decided to show me differently! Such as Life!!

We got our Math Books on Monday so on Tuesday we started with our lessons.  We were doing great! She was doing 4 units of Math a day since they are pretty easy at this point. We started in a book that would have been a year behind where she placed in on the assessment tests. She took the Assessment tests for the Saxon Math Systems. If you want to see it, click HERE for a downloadable assessment test for your munchkin.

She placed in her grade level with the Saxon Math 76. which is for 6th and 7th graders.  I got the book and started reading through it a little bit and found some math in it that would be a challenge if you did not know the basics to begin with. So, I decided to take a step back just to build and/or firm up the foundation that is necessary to move forward.  I picked up the Saxon Math 65 for her.  She is flying through this pretty quickly.  I had given her 2 lessons a day, they have about 30 problems. She kept going and did 4 on the first day.

So Thursday, I was sitting down after everyone was in bed and started playing with my Home Schooling Tracker. I got all the books in there, the school years in, my students name and all that fun stuff. I then grabbed her Back pack and opened it to get her math book out and her notebook.  Well.. she wasn't using a spiral bound notebook for her math homework. She was using loose leaf paper, which would have been fine if they were in a 3 prong folder or a binder.. But they weren't.  There must have been 20 papers in there that she had written on and I couldn't make heads nor tails of anything! Oh boy! Do I have my work cut out for me!!! LOL!!!

So, I am trying my very best to go through these papers. I removed the spelling ones from the stack, then started trying put together the lessons. She didn't mark the pages very well if at all. So there were ones that I didn't know what unit they went to.  She was up to unit 10 and I couldn't find what went with what. So I told her the next day to stop doing more units and rewrite the ones that she has already done in a notebook so that I can grade them. So, Friday night I tried again.  Well, its not much better.. she did then on loose paper again. So I took all the loose paper away from her and gave her the Spiral notebook and told her to put them in there.... She started with lesson 17. Oh boy!!  This is a lesson in patients!  I told her to not do anymore lessons.  I need all of the math rewritten in the spiral bound notebook and until that is done, we can not go forward! 

Lesson Learned!! Invest in Spiral Bound Notebooks! 

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