Tuesday, July 15, 2008

We did it!


We started school on Sunday! Mike was preparing to take Kayla to the airport to see her off to PA and Maddie was heartbroken about not being able to tag along. I offered to start school a day early as a distraction and it was just the thing she needed! Today will be our 3rd day and so far we both love it!

So far we have done a math lesson each day, reviewed phonics and practiced reading short words, practiced writing. We are also studying Animals in their World, a curriculum offered by Winterpromise. We've learned about various animal senses, movement, and skeletons and we've read the first chapter in a book called Red Dog, by Bill Wallace.

Soon we will be starting a unit on the African Savannah and I will be adding some geography and American History lessons as well.

Nicholas and I are working through Winterpromise's I'm Ready To Learn preschool curriculum as we have time but I am beginning to realize that we won't take full advantage of all this program has to offer until he's a bit older. He just turned three last month, so this will probably work better next year.

1 comment:

Amy said...

YEA! What a sweet picture! Homeschooling rocks! lol... She looks so proud! And Jude was 3 years and 7 months before he started school... and he only did little bits then.