Math and Handwriting

I pulled the camera out today during school to get some pictures of the kids.  I plan to make them each a photo book for each year of school so I have to remember to actually get pictures of what we do.

As I've mentioned before they really like math and today we started subtraction.  They seemed to catch on rather well to it.  Bella was a little slower than John, but she understands addition better than him.















And then handwriting.  John's handwriting started off so bad, and he hated to practice.  We started Handwriting Without Tears and he has done so well with it.  Before Bella would finish a page in minutes and 20 minutes later John would still be crying and have gotten nowhere with his work.  Now he finishes before her and just flies through it.

This is John's handwriting when we started the year...



And this is it now... (the top sentence is my writing and his is underneath.)









And this is Bella. She's had pretty good handwriting from the beginning.


And this is what I got when I asked each of them to smile