September School Success!!!

Well, we are now into our 4th week of school here.  It is hard to believe it is the last week of September and that school has begun.  The kids are doing great.  They are really enjoying having a new teacher!!!  Jessica has settled in well to life in the Talbot house.  We are a busy house and there is never a dull moment here. Jessica helps each of the kids when they get stumped on a question.  Notice the “now I see what I did wrong” expression on Kyle’s face!!!   

Each of the kids work independently on their work at our big table in the school room. 

This year Eli switched curriculums completely and is doing well with his work. 

Hala also switched to a new curriculum and is doing great.  I work one on one with her in Math each day.  Math is very hard for her but she is learning many new things.  She has been introduced to multiplication now and is understanding the easy ones so far, i.e.: 0x, 1x, 2x, 5x and 10x.  This is a great thing for her to start getting into her brain.

Kyle is doing a mix of old and new curriculum.  He likes the old and the new stuff.  He is a real thinker when it comes to doing his work but once he finally gets the new concept it sticks in his brain!!!

Charlotte is a busy little girl.  Before we furloughed she had completed grade one with Bobbi. (that was a year ahead for her age)  But when we enrolled her in the public school she had to do “age appropriate”, being grade 1.  She did very well in her class and enjoyed all the new friends she made.  When we returned to the Philippines in March, we decided to do whatever workbooks we could find to keep her busy.  So seeing as she never actually started the second grade curriculum, we thought we would start her off there and see what she does.  Well, these days she is doing 2-3 lessons a day.  She will be done her grade 2 school books sometime into the new year.  So now we look to see what she should do after that.  I guess we keep moving ahead.  She has a hard time sitting still but is a smart cookie!!!

So what about Sophia???  She is almost 2 years old and a very busy, talkative little girl.  While the other kids are doing school, Sophia plays with her toys and often helps her Ate with the laundry in the morning.  This means she gets her own bucket of water to sit and play in!!! (Notice the wet ponytails, guess what she just finished doing???)

Just the other day, Sophia sat at the supper table and yelled to everyone, “guys, guys, supper, eat, guys!!!”  Supper was ready and she was hungry.  Guess we should hurry up and get to the table next time!!!

Please continue to pray for the kids as they do school this year.  We will be spending lots of time in the village thus making a school routine hard to keep.

Continue to pray for me and this pregnancy.  I am still having morning sickness (actually all day sickness.)  It has been 6 weeks of it now and that is usually the most I get but it just doesn’t want to go away.