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Yesterday was our first day of school. I amnot new to homeschooling (I homeschooled my eldest for 3 years) but it is new for Matt. We are starting uot slow. Mostly because I don't have my order from Rainbow Resource yet, but I also don't want to give Matt too much to do all at once and make him hate homeschooling.

So, we started out the day with a little journal work. He did this in school and loved it. I have two books from the Draw Write Now series that we are using for the journal work. It takes care of the penmenship and art. It is more of a copywork lesson, but Matt loves it so far. He gave it two thumbs up.

 Here is the page after he was done with the picture.

I was actually surprised about how excited he was about doing the journal work. I figured it was the one thing he would complain about. But I was wrong. When I was going over what work we would be doing each day (I will do this again once we get the math and language arts books) he was going on and saying he wanted to do his journal now.

So yesterday we just did the journal, history and science. I told him that history will only be 3 days a week and science will be 2 days a week (the none history days).

Today we did another journal page and then hit the mall for lunch with a girlfriend of mine. When we got back, we did a Mammoth Math lesson on telling time. He has no clue how to tell time on a non digital clock, so while we wait for his Singapore Math to get here, we will learn about telling time.

After that, I dug out some Patternable pages and shapes and let him do them. He loves puzzles. These start out super easy and tell you what shape goes where, but then later on moves to one huge shape and you have to fit all of the different shapes into this one big shape. Kind of like tanagrams only with different shaped pieces.

LIke my chick backpack in the background? LOL

I warned Matt that next week starts the full day school. Well not full day, but a full schedule with math journal and language arts every day and alternating history and science.