I can't believe how fast the 5 year old is picking up reading! After a slightly bumpy start at a very leisurely pace, you can almost here the gears whirring in his head. I think i made a good connection with him tonight while we were reading aloud the first Harry Potter book. He kept asking me questions and telling me what he thout was going to happen next, and I kept telling him that we could guess or we could read and find out. This is a major theme in our reading lessons, as he is constantly guessing what the word is after reading the first letter. He's actually getting much better about that, but hopefully tomorrow there will be zero instances of guessing.

I can't believe how far we've come since Christmas. If you had asked me two months ago how I felt about our homeschooling, I would not have been as excited as I am now. I'm so happy we chose to let him go at his own pace, because I want him to love learning for the rest of his life, not feel like it's a chore or something that is forced.