Today was a busy day , I started our homeschooling lessons with sarai aged 6 , we started with handwriting ,I am teaching her to write cursive , after handwriting we did math ,I am currently not following any curriculum this year goal for her will be for her to memorize all her math facts (addition,subtraction, multiplication,division). After math was reading ,she did indenpent reading then we read a book together.

Sarai is a very smart girl she is doing great on her reading and Hopefully she become a book lover.
Many times i feel sad and overwhelmed with the fact that i constantly feel like the girls are behind and I feel anxious to rush through materials. which is always a huge mistake. I just end being overwork and moody.
I just have to keep reminding myself that slow and steady wins the race.


Kenia (aged 8)is progressing slowly with her reading ,she is deff not at grade level which makes me feel horrible . since I am her teacher i cant blame anyone but myself.
even though her reading skill need improvement ,I must be proud of her for her math skills, she is doing great! . I am using saxon 5/4 . at the beginning of each lesson she gets a drill page of 100 addition facts she get 5 min to complete this sheet. I put on my stopwatch and she work the problem as fast as she can,unfortunately she haven't been able to finish the drill in 5 min .I am confident that she will soon.
She also did about 2hr of reading and practice her handwriting.


Eva did a lesson at readingbear.org . This is an excellence website to learn how to read phonetically . I also when to starfall.com  and we read Zac the rat.
I also using a Glenn doman method of reading with her which is the whole -word method. I believe both method are needed to be a great reader.
I know there is many arguments regarding which method is best. My thought are they both  good.

Noah who is 14 month old,I  do Little reader twice a day in English and Spanish and wink to learn Chinese twice a day. he knows many of his body part and understand both English and Spanish and some mandarin( which the older girls teach him)

I wish there was more hours in a day for I could keep enjoying my babies.

saturday. sept 1

8:14 am I heard my cell phone ring,it was my mom , she told me that my brother was on his way for I could take them to home depot workshop. I stand up ,it felt like all the gravity of the world was pushing me down how I wish i could sleep late.  But when you are a mom of 6 that is just a wish .

rush the girls to get dress ,get Noah dress ,get Eva dress , argue with carmen to hurry up, asked the girls to comb their hair ,comb eva hair. finally we are all out of the door.

walk to the mall , before heading to homedepot I made a stop at payless shoes b/c i left noah sandals at the beach yesterday, to my surprise payless shoes are close look at their scheduled that was posted on their window ,look down to sat ,they open at 10.
It now 9:30 ,hey I am not going to stand there and wait so I just when straight to home depot. The kids build a  gol post ,it was easy. while they was building I try to calm Noah down who wanted to walk  but I couldn't let him because he was barefooted.

I remember That I have to talk to Noah if I want him to talk, so I walk around showing him the different plants ,talking to him about the colors of the flowers the leaf size , show him and talking even about photosynthesis.

After the girls finish building their project we  went to the running track ,I sign up K,S and E to soccer, which start sept 15. They said they will call me if there is space for them. The girls also play with this kid that live in my building and that we just found out that he get homeschool ,we were all happy to find another homeschooler. Until they interact with the boy and notice that the boy is not nice,
I guess not all homeschoolers are nice.

Noah got his first haircut, my hubby try to give him a decent haircut but he kept moving,crying ,screamming . I wonder how barbers deal with kids this young ........maybe they give them a lollipop.
the girls said that he looks like Moe from the three stooges....lol

bye bye beach

This summer was great, I saw my girls laughing ,smiling,running playing and being free.
Of course there was also the negative, fighting ,complaining ,crying and them being unsatisfied , but overall it was great.

Today i took them to coney island for  them to said goodbye to the beach ,the last day until next summer.

My lazy spirit didn't want to go through the hassle of taking the train and packing snacks or getting dirty with sand,but I am glad I did.

seeing my girls and my baby Noah playing with the sand walking to the water, looking for shells it was worthy.
when we starting going to the beach Noah would run away from the  water ,but today he walk toward the water even letting the wave land on his beautiful toes he even grab my hand and gesture for me to take him in. once we were in he got scared, I just carry him and try to make him feel safe ,I jump in and out of the water which he thought it was hilarious . He play peek boo with his sisters,  Kenia will go in the water them pop out he love that.

Eva mi gordita enjoyed getting wet ,playing with sand finding different shapes of shells.

In our way back home Eva took the towel to cover herself  because she was cold then sarai ask her to share the towel because she was also cold but eva refused to .
moments later sarai fell asleep and Eva tuck her in with some of her towel. sweet.


I guess no matter how much they fight they still love each other and will take care of one another.