When I homeschooled Zechariah for K, he came up with this name for our homeschool. Check it out here. Since our purpose is to return and live with our Heavenly Father again some day, it is fitting. Since Monday was a holiday, our first day of Heavenly Homeschool was Tuesday. It consisted of piano lessons, a trip to Manassas, VA to meet with a LDS homeschool group, then to a friend's house to play while I took Elijah to get his stitches out, then home for math, chores, and dinner. It was busy and I did not feel like I had started school at all. Wednesday came and I was ready. It was amazing! I believe in "let sleeping dogs lie" so I let the boys wake up whenever they wanted. Gabriel and Ammon were up first. I made them breakfast and Gabe did his math, handwriting, grammar, and practiced piano before Zech finally got up at 9am!!! It sure made it easy for me. Ammon and Elijah enjoyed hanging around and playing with teddy bear counters and ABC blocks. I am kinda shocked that Gabriel is proving to be harder than the rest right now. He is kinda whiny and picks on his younger brothers a lot.I think he just needs some attention right now. I dunno-we'll figure it out. Today was great fun too. I really love the curriculum I chose for the boys. We are using "History of the World" from The Well Trained Mind and their Grammar program , "First Language Lessons". Gabriel is on Saxon 1 Math. I am still debating Zech's math curriculum. Right now I am working on his math facts as I find his instant recall and memorization of the multiplication tables are lacking. They both use Handwriting without tears for handwriting and I have a spelling workbook. The only thing I do not have a set curriculum for is science. But we have TONS of books and I am trying to get better about experiments. (I hate the mess!)Anyhoo, I took a pic of my boys all working together at the table today. I posted it to facebook and said "I've never been happier!" It truly is a blessing to be able to be at home with my children. I am in love with them. Even though there are times I feel like there is not enough of me to go around, I still enjoy where I we are as a family.
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4 comments:
sounds like you are off to a great start...you are braver than I am :)
we are going to try the Life of Fred books for math study. i have heard mucho good stuff about them. you can google them and check them out on line. math is drudgery for me and them, so we are going to try this new route. the books tell a story which includes the math lesson. definitely worth a look!
i feel the same way about science.... everytime i hear the boys come to me with a science book i cringe because i think of the mess!!! uhg! Natalie, (josh's wife) uses apologia science and i think it's one of her favorites!!! thanks for sharing!
Here is what we are using for science this year and my girls love it. Its free and experiments aren't very messy so far. http://www.eequalsmcq.com/ClassicScienceLife.htm
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