First Day Of School

This week starts our first week of homeschooling! My youngest slept in late yesterday so Ethan and I were able to get a head start without much interruption.

Our weird word of the day was “prius.” The logic riddle for the day was: The more and more I dry off, the wetter I get. What am I?

Most of our time was spent introducing Ethan to all our subjects, setting up our history time line and getting a taste of what our school year will look like. Our Bible curriculum will focus on the names of Jesus. The curriculum has us talking with our child about the meaning of their name and why we chose that name. As it turns out, because our devotional the past couple of months has been focused on the names of God, we already did an activity based on Ethan’s name. I did write a letter to him, as the curriculum suggested, explaining why we chose his name and gave him a written “blessing” of our love for him and anticipation of all God will do in his life. We are using Singapore Math, which he zoomed through. We also started First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind: Level 1 (Second Edition) (First Language Lessons), Handwriting Transition Student Worktext (Reason for Handwriting), and Spelling by Sound and Structure, Grade 2 (For Christian Schools). This week starts off easy to help transition children into the school year. That means he had lots of extra free time!

With our “My Father’s World” curriculum, we are learning about U.S. History. We’re starting with the Vikings this week and moving on to Christopher Columbus next week. During his book basket reading time, he read Time Traveller Book of Viking Raiders (Time Traveller Books), lent to us by a history teacher friend of mine. He spent a good half an hour drawing a picture inspired by his reading. I think that was his favorite activity of the day:) (probably because it was a picture of the Vikings attacking a village, swords and all)

My favorite school find: a spinning pencil caddy

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