Aug. 25, 2008 - First Day of School
We are officially back to school today! Despite having a crazy mess thanks to a weekend camping trip, the day went well. I'm a bit behind and this blog update is not going to help, but we'll get back into the swing of things soon!
Today we did our chicken chores which I'm counting as part of the day - he's learning a lot of great lessons on responsibility from them, as well as some harder lessons (we recently slaughtered a few of them). A couple of the hens have begun to lay and they are pretty reliable at an egg a day. I suppose it's possible that more than two are doing it, but judging by the looks of the eggs and placement in the nests (and under the slide) we think it's just two. They are brown eggs, and one of them lays speckled ones.
After the chickens we had a devotional. We are learning Old Testament stories right now. Today's lesson was on the pre existence and the battle in heaven.
We then moved onto math, which was pretty much a review from last year. Then onto language lessons and happy phonics games. I was surprised how easily Juan Carlos read the words when it was a "game" and can tell that our major problem last year was motivation. I think he'll make incredible progress with Happy Phonics and some obnoxious reading material like Captain Underpants or something similar.
He had his karate lesson, sign language and history. We learned what history is and different ways that we discover it. He tried his hand at some archaeology by digging into a castle of pressed sand that had a treasure inside. He really enjoyed that.
I wasn't as prepared as I'd like to have been for Luke, and he made a gigantic mess of the house while I helped Juan Carlos. Hopefully as we get into our new schedule I'll get better about posting pictures up here. For now, I'm very well prepared for Juan Carlos' curriculum, but limping along with everything else!
