Well, we made it through the first day. I thought it went really well, Austin loved it and Wyatt's in his room pouting :) We started with pictures at around 830 (an early start, we were all excited). Then we started reading aloud from the Bible. I started with Mark 1 for no reason. It was random!! We enjoyed our time reading and praying and then got into our Bible lesson from our Answers for Kids curriculum from Answers in Genesis. I think it's all really redundant and will probably NOT do an actual curriculum for Bible again, though I want to finish this since I bought it and it won't hurt anything!! Than we did math, which caused some tears. Austin raced through his math and got done quickly, about 30 minutes before Wyatt finished, not because he's better, but because Wyatt was being a perfectionist and was just going slow!!! After that we did history, which was about creation (I am SOOOO sick of creation!!! LOL) and started making creation booklets to remember what God made on what days. Then we did Language, which was super easy and quick, but I made them use it as handwriting time as well. Then we wrote down our spelling saying for the week from our Charlotte Mason spelling book (I am; I can; I ought; I will.). Then we did geography books and were done!! Well, after they read for 20 minutes and wrote 3 sentances about what they read.
My biggest high of the day was Austin exclaiming over and over "I love this!!" and biggest low of the day was Wyatt crying that he wanted to go to school :) Yes, that's the opposite of how it started!! LOL
My biggest worry is that everything only took about 3 and a half hours. We need to average more than that!! I'm waiting til next week to start science though, so I'm sure that will help...
It only takes us 3 hrs to get "official school" done too. Remember to count the additional things because that really adds up. Going to the zoo = 2 hrs of science. Going to the park = phys ed time. I just think back to the 45 minutes of school time credit we got for study hall in the public school, going to the zoo is way more educational than that! Or the 25 minutes of quiet reading time in classes when the teacher ran out of stuff for us to do, that all counts for the school time credit, so I think our field trips should count for the homeschool time credit :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder Meghan!! I know once I add in sports, church and scouts it'll add up quickly. It just amazed me that 4 hours was all it took!!
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