2nd Week

Our second week of school is complete, and we're starting our third. Last week we began studying "A Life God Rewards" by Bruce Wilkinson. I really pray that the kids will grasp the idea that what we do here on Earth really does matter. I'm reading the teen version with our daughter and the kid version with our son. As a review of what we read this summer about the Dark Ages, we watched a documentary by the History Channel. We're continuing our study in the middle ages, and read "Robin Hood". Since we were studying knights and castles, we found scenes from "The Lord of the Rings" to view trebuchets, catapults, and armor. The kids do math and grammar daily, as well as reading. We listened to Bach and learned some about his life. We add in our vocabulary program this week, and science the next.

Great First Week!

Our first week is finished. In Bible, we learned about the greatest commandment, love. We went to the Salvation Army, learned about some of what they do there, and worked in the food bank. In history, we're moving along in the middle ages. We read a lot about the Dark Ages this summer. We're learning about castle life, how towns were developed, knights in shining armor, and more. The kids did some math, grammar, reading, and critical thinking/logic activities this week as well. I never start a full load the first week. I like to ease back into things since summer is so short here.

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!

We started our first day of school with a trip out for breakfast. McDonald's is always a good choice, especially since they have Mocha Mondays right now, free sample sizes of their new mocha drinks.
When we got back home, I had schultuetes waiting for them. It is an old German tradition to give children a school cone on their first day of school. Ours contained candy, small toys, lip gloss, and special, multi-colored pens.


We decorated our notebooks for the year. We have notebooks for Bible, History, Science, and Language Arts.
I gave them their new hanging file folder "workboxes". We're working this week on making our schedule cards and strip. These will be Clone Wars themed. Each will have their own rotating caddy to hold school supplies.

We started our lessons with a study of 1 Cor. 13. We will be studying love this week, and different character traits throughout the year. We moved right on to exploring new books, doing a little math, grammar, and critical thinking/logic activities. We ended up our school time with reading aloud "The Kitchen Knight", a retelling of King Arthur by Margaret Hodges. We'll do PE this afternoon. They have new PE activity cards allowing them to choose different activities throughout the week. It was a great first day! I'm really excited about this year!

We have a climber!!!

Our son LOVES that he can climb all the way to the top of our doorways. (Liability Clause: Do Not Attempt This At Home!)