Friday Morning: I need a nap

Today starts our crazy, busy weekend. It already exhausts me. All good things, just a lot.
Today is also our "official" last day of school! I packed up up most of our curriculum yesterday, leaving out only craft supplies and instruction books, and a few "summer" work books that Chloe loves.

Other than those two things I will not think about homeschooling for a month or so. Okay, I might have just lied, I'm already excited about our prospective curriculum for next year.

Chloe was going crazy yesterday, all excited that she would be a first grader today! Where have the last five and a half years gone??!! I'm thankful and excited and so blessed that we made it through this first year of homeschooling. I definetly have my (many) moments of doubt about what I was doing (hello, you all read most of the posts of me ranting that I was ruining Chloe's life!).  But we all survived, we really enjoyed ourselves, and Chloe learned A TON! I am so impressed with her. We went from the beginning of the year with lots of crying (she had a hard time too) to looking forward to our school work each day.

She went from a non-reader, to a very good reader. Handwriting was her least favorite thing, and now she writes and writes and writes, just for fun! Math was and still is a joy to her and I've discovered that she has a fascination with the human body and how it functions and wants to learn/talk/read about that every day. What five year old can tell you the major organs of the body and their functions??!!

Geography fascinates her, she loves naming the 7 continents and can name 17 of our 50 states by herself. She learned to use a compass and loves learning about different cultures. Her favorite countries we focused on this year were Japan, France (because Madeline lives there), and India (where the Compassion child her Sunday school sponsors lives).

Her hunger for information amazes me. I'm so thankful for my sweet, compassionate, inquisitive girl!

We have our dance recital tomorrow and I'm sure I'll cry when my girls dance on stage (again), and will spend the weekend with Andrews family enjoying our new lovely backyard. I promise a huge photo dump come monday morning. Now I have to finish this post and go clean bathrooms and get ready for the day! Have a blessed weekend, friends!