Homeschooling week...umm...6.5?

We are taking a week off. Just because.

We started homeschooling at this age (almost 4) for 2 key reasons.
1. We really feel like this is God's plan for our family and we wanted to start before we had to so that we had time to figure this out!
2. Miss Pear kept asking to learn to read (and knit). Nope, not kidding.

But we are taking a break because Miss Pear had a mental developmental leap, she is suddenly doing things she could not before that no one really taught her, just new stuff happening in that really sweet smart brain. So we are taking a week off to let her get stuff assimilated as we know from past experience that when this happens it is best to just let it happen and not try to teach new stuff.

So our plan for this week is:

Bible Reading Time (at the breakfast table):

• God's Wisdom for Little Girls: Virtues and Fun from Proverbs 31 (we love this book so much, it is based on Proverbs 31 and is affectionately known as Rubies to Miss Pear. If you have a sweet little girl in your life I cannot recommend this highly enough!)
  
• The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes Gift Edition
  
• A Chapter in Matthew
  

Scripture Memory:

• Review
• Maybe start learning the Lord's Prayer as she is already very familiar with it (we say it in church every Sunday and Miss Pear LOVES it when she knows stuff like that...hence her favorite church song is the Doxology!)
  

Read Aloud:

• Charlotte's Web
• Little House in the Big Woods Book and Charm (Charming Classics)
• And lots and lots of picture books

Other:

• Bake banana bread (a favorite of hers)
• Bake cinnamon buns (honestly, she keeps asking me to teach her to make them so that she can make them all on her own)
• Color lots
• Maybe make hand lilies
• If Miss Pear asks to trace, which she often does, pull out review pages (I always print a couple extra) and just let her have fun.
  
• Just go with it....explore what interests her. This is a key to our homeschooling. Whatever she is interested in we go with and we go as far as we can for her, stopping when we reach her outer limits.