Goals for the Girls

The last big area I have goals in this year, is for the girls.

We are starting more formal education with Miss Pear, and I want to be faithful to that.

I already mentioned Bible reading with the girls, but would like to include memorizing verses, learning songs, and encouraging prayer.

For school I would like to faithfully spend time each week day doing the prereading part of Alphaphonics and then also spending a week on each letter. I am thinking of also making up a number chart along the same lines of the alphaphonics prereader program for letters. My goal is good number and letter recognition, and being able to writer her name without help by her birthday (the end of May).

Miss Pear loves to help me around the house, she already can set the table (using the charts I made up to show here where everything goes), put the cutlery away when we empty the dishwasher, and fold square things like napkins, faceclothes, dish clothes etc. all by herself. And she helps me with what I am doing almost constantly. So I would like to continue to encourage her in this area!

I would also like to find more time to read books during the day. We do have our Bible reading, bedtime story time, and read at different other times, but I want to do a better job at this consistently. I would also like to do a better job at rotating our books out as our book shelf for children's books is actually an armoir in Miss Pear's room, and then I rotate out books in her display book case and reading basket for downstairs. (Plus she helps herself constantly, which is great!).

The reading plans are for Baby too, she sits in her highchair at the table with us for meals, so she gets that reading time, plus she sits on my lap if she is awake and I am reading to her sister (only problem is the two of them get smiling at each other and forget about the book!)

Really, I just want to encourage my girls, to love them, to teach them about God and His love for them, and to make sure they know how much they are loved. I can be heard to say that our family may be weird, but they will always know they are loved. Everything else seems to flow out of that.