Blessings From Home

Our First Day of School

Well, today was our first day of homeschool and how did we do?

Well, let's see....

~We were both excited to get started

~We started off with prayer and then Bible Study-I'm using Preperation for Christ- Year 1 Curriculum. We also did a daily devotion that we get through email from Keys for Kids. And then we sang a favorite hymn that I found here~ Hymns. All of that took us a little more than 30 minutes.

~I did some time talking about calender and had a handwriting sheet where he could practice writing his full name, the month, date, his birthday, address, and phone number.

~Then we moved onto math, which I learned was entirely too easy for him, so I will either be doubling up on what I've already got printed out or we may just go ahead and move up several lessons and see how he does with that. The math I used was from CIMT. The math took us about 30 minutes too.

~Then we did Language arts, where we reviewed Word Mastery, pg 65...we did McGuffey's reader, lesson 1, both of which can be found at Old Fashioned Education.  I introduced spelling words which I found here Spelling Lists. And we did a grammer sheet from here...SF Reading. And he did copywork using our memory verse for the week. 2 Timothy 3:16

~Then we did Literature. For literature I'm using the curriculum through Old Fashioned Education. We read a story out of Aesop's Fables, and we started reading a chapter out of Grimm's Fairytale Adventures.

~And lastly we did social studies, where we started a new book called High Roads to Geography. Another great find at OFE.

Then we took our lunch break. And after lunch I let him do a little craft project and he made a lantern out of construction paper. An oldie, but a goodie, and amazingly something he has yet to have done in PS.

Now what did I learn?  Well, I don't want to overdo it with too much, but I think I didn't have enough, and some of the stuff I did have was way too easy for him and I think bored him a little. So I think we will double up on the rest of the worksheets for math until we get to a point where things become a little more challenging for him. I really enjoyed our Bible study time just the way it was. Not too much, but not too little. The language arts was kind of boring to him as well, but he really needs the review. So we will continue on it as well. As far as the literature goes, the Aesop's fables are no more than a paragraph and the chapters of Grimm's fairy tales were no more than 5 pages long, so I think we'll read a chapter at a time, instead of the few pages we did today.

As for the rest of our day, he will spend about 30 minutes to an hour reading a chapter book out of the selection I gave him. And the rest of the time will be spent doing chores, or do we call those life skills? lol. His room is a disaster and we both have plenty of chores to catch up on. I'm not going to stress too much on the rest of the week, because more than anything I want to work on making this a daily habit and getting used to the new routine. I'll share more of our week as we go along. Thanks for coming along for the journey with us.

Blessings,

Sara

Hi!

{ 02:48, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 } { Posted by 3jemsmom }

Glad to see your day went well. I found CMIT math to be fairly easy too, and doubled up also, but the good news is it seems to progress to more difficult work fairly quickly. I got the Saxon math 1 manual I got off e-bay today only to find it too is far too easy for my DD #2 I had planned to use it with. It will work nicely for #3 I think though. So everything seems to be trial and error to me. (-; Best wishes for the week ahead.
Shari