Eureka! (A new world has started)

We've started Princess on Explode the Code (phonics), which I never did with Bub, but Princess seems more hesitant to read. Rather, if she's not sure, she won't put forth even a guess, without a lot of tooth-pulling. And a lot of the time her guesses are correct, she just doesn't want to seem wrong I guess. But I digress. I think she needs to feel stronger about reading, so we're doing more remedial stuff. Thus, phonics. But it seemed like such a colossal waste for her to cross out things on such simple sheets, I put the workbook sheets in page protectors.

Which leads me to my Eureka! moment this morning: I'm now putting all of our handwriting worksheets in page protector sheets. I suppose at this point I should be creating a link to such office supplies so that if you wanted to buy, you could just click on it and I could get a cut or whatever it is bloggers are doing nowadays. But let me continue. Bub has had atrocious handwriting for years, only improving in the past few months. We've been on Getty-Dubay's Handwriting Book B for maybe two years. I'd been photo copying the worksheets out of the book I bought for him because he'd have to keep doing them over again, but just sliding the handwriting sheets into page protectors for him to use dry erase markers would save so much paper! I'm sure there are more put-together homeschooling parents who had this epiphany much earlier, but mine was now and I thought I'd share. 

It's like that song from Disney's Aladdin: A Whole New World! (I'm not a fan of Disney, but the seemed apropos.)