ABQOPFN, KSRNTLMYC, WXZ, EUD, GHI and J

School with four chickens is interesting to say the least. I find myself wanting to pull my hair out some days and on others marveling that I have not yet buried one of my lovely chickens in the back 40. Wait, we don't have a back 40, maybe that's why it hasn't happened yet.
At any rate, whatever the reason is, I still have four chickens and no back 40. Today in school we started with our normal Pledge of Allegiance to Mommy, wait, um, America. Then we transitioned into our neat little lessons all happy and excited. Rebekah started off with her right and left hands, you see she is still slightly confused about if she is right or left handed, so I being the lovely up lifting carer of chickens that I am try to let her figure it out for herself, she can write fine with either so every morning this is what happens...
"Rebekah, take a pencil out and..."
"I will use my pink prenzel"
"OK, you use your pink one"
"I will use this prenzel and this hand"
"OK Rebekah, that's fine."
"OH MOMMY!!" (followed with laughter)
"What Rebekah"
"I am silly, I need to use my green prenzel and THIS hand"
"Oh how silly, please do your work."
and this exchange goes on for a few more minutes until she has just the right "prenzel" and hand.
Michael is still trying to figure out why he has to do school work EVERYDAY and why oh why do Brittany, Justin and Rebekah get to do "funn-er" everything and he has to read. This is just some of the exchanges that happen between him and I...
"Michael, I need you to get your pencil out and..."
"K, do I need my pencil or crayons?"
"Your pencil"
and as he is distracted and clearly thinking more about the other chickens and all the way more fun things they are doing we spend a good deal of time discussing just what tool is needed for his work.
Justin knows everything about everything and knows that the world is wrong and he is right so I just let him teach himself...yeah right. This is what Justin and my conversations look like...
"Mommy, I know"
"You know?"
"Yup, I know, can I just do my work?"
"OK, just humor me and listen, I like to hear myself talk."
"What?"
"Just humor me, I like the sound of my voice."
"Mom, you are crazy."
"You know whats crazy?"
"What?"
"That we are having this conversation for the bagillionth time."
"bagillionth?"
"Yes. Please listen to my instructions and then you can decide if you want to do it the way I said or the way you want to. Okay?"
"k"
And last but not least this is the interaction between Brittany and myself...
"Mommy, if it wants to know what the fraction is and 7 of the 10 squares are shaded the the fraction would be 7/7 right?"
"Brittany listen to your question..."
"If 7 of the 10 are shaded..."
"Say it again"
"7 of the 10..."
"Almost there"
"OHHHHHH, 7/10. HA HA!!!"
Ok, so to recap:
1. I still have four chickens
2. I am still homeschooling four chickens.
3. My sanity is still in the lost and found somewhere, I just don't know where the lost and found is...