Peer Pressure!

All 4 kiddos working!

This afternoon, I had our sweet neighbor Lucas over to do some school with us - we made it lots of fun so that he did not feel like he was 'in school' from 8a until 5p!

When he arrived, Little Robert, Lucas, and I sat on the couch and read for a bit. They would take turns reading pages. Lucas' presence motivated Little Robert to work even harder. It was so fun to watch them read - it became a little competition with who could read faster than the other! When we were done, each received 5 gummy bears for doing a great job!

After this, we went to the table for a game show version of a spelling test! I gave all of the kiddos (Hannah and Aahliya included) a sheet of paper. They each wrote their names on the top and then their ABC's - whoever wrote them the nicest received a smily face on top of their paper - wouldn't you know it that they all have smiley faces?!?!?! After that, we went on to spell 10 words from Little Robert's 3rd quarter spelling words. This was great fun for all of them and the best part was that they had no idea they were learning! Nobody became upset or mouthy. Nobody fussed - all they knew was that they were having a great time and I felt on top of the world!

We had a major breakthrough yesterday and I am so very excited! I can hardly wait for our next Reading/Phonics/Spelling lesson with a friend!