The last few days

I started to only post on the school stuff we did today, but learning is about more than ABC's and 123's... so I will include our weekend. Saturday we went to garage sales. Am I teaching the girls to find a bargain? That afternoon we picked up my grandparents (teaching compassion and service?) and took them to Kayla's birthday party (teaching the importance of family). Sunday we went to church (make time for worship), went shopping for Benjamin's birthday gift (choosing a gift that your friend will like), and then to Benjamin's birthday party at Durham Gymnastics. That is important social time of course, for all those home school naysayers that think we don't socialize. Ha ha. The gym time was great also. I'm going to look into a gymnastics class for the girls, I think that they would love it and it would be good for them.
So today Alex had PT and Emma had OT. Each of the girls got a place mat at Walmart this morning. Alex's is abc's and Emma's is shapes. This afternoon we sat in the floor with dry erase markers and Alex traced all of her letters, they are all lowercase. She really did very well. Then she practiced writing her name. I tried to work on shapes with Emma and we did go over shape names. She gets the circle and triangle, but we are working on the rest. Other than that she mainly colored on the place mat. We read books this evening as usual. One number book. They both count very well, but number recognition is still not there. We are working on it though.