Finding Contentment

First day of school

Today was so busy, but so wonderful!

Mark was off to his new job this morning and we were off to start school! It felt great to be hitting the books and doing something constructive again.

We started with Bible, then did Math, then started our unit study work. Unfortunately, I had planned 30 minutes for our unit study and we stayed at it for an hour and a half, so we had to skip spelling and grammar. As part of today's unit study lesson, we went on an 'archeological dig" to find items used by the early settlers and colonists. This kids went through layers of dirt I had previously hidden "artifacts" in and then recorded their findings. Since we were working with dirt (that I dug up from the garden, BTW), we did our excavating on the back deck. For weeks it has been in the triple digits here, and we are going through a drought. But on this wonderful first day back to school, the temperature was only in the 80s. It was great fun, and they were really into it - as you can tell by the photos.

This year, I am attempting to include my 4-year-old. He tends to get ignored when I am working with the older kids all morning, and then screams to be included. I am heading that off this year by including him in everything I can. He had a great time doing the unit study with the older kids, even though he didn't really understand what we were doing.

Afterwards we did copywork, and then literature and narrations. We never did make it to science. And to answer my Secret Sister's question, yes, we did get a science curriculum. Thanks for asking! We now only lack a foreign language curriculum. Maybe once hubby gets over his 6-week training period we'll be able to afford one.

Hubby will now be working from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. This will be very hard for us, as we tend to be night owls ; )

 I write this now at just after 10 p.m. When I am done posting this entry we will both go to bed and get six hours sleep before we drag ourselves happily jump out of bed, eager to start the new day. Just thinking about getting up at 4:30 a.m. makes me tired...

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02:29 PM, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 .. Posted by meme21713

Little one may not know what he is doing, but does seem to have his whole heart into...too cute...lol....Debbie