Workbooks!

Yes, contrary to opinion, we do occasionally pull out the workbooks in our house. Usually when the girls request them, and they only ever do as much as they feel like. Usually about 5 or 6 pages at a time. My only request to them is that they don't skip pages, as then they get considered "done" before they are, and end up ignored in a bottom of a drawer. (I always find it hard to donate partially used workbooks, and they end up as garbage/recycling.)

The one thing I do find curious, is the levels of workbook. Both girls are working on a book around the 1st grade mark, yet both are vastly different in terms of difficulty level.
Oh well, Tara is enjoying hers; it is colourful and entertaining and for the most part, easy for her.

Aislinn is working through this book, and the one thing I really like is that it is encouraging her to write (in spaces).

A good portion of Aislinn's personal writing is done on pictures and cards, usually on blank paper, where the freedom to fill the page takes over.

She often gets very fancy, but the explanation of readability vs fancy has not caught on yet.

Luckily Aislinn seems pretty ok with repetition, but for most of these pages, she just fills in the blanks, and then goes back to read it.