Today was our first day back to school.  We have a lot of carryover from last year due to our trip to the states and the complications with this pregnancy, but we are planning to proceed full steam ahead until baby boy is born in November.  We will then take a long break, but the good thing is that it will be around holiday breaks anyway.

Arielle is starting Sonlight Core 2.  She is doing Saxon Math 2, Reason for Handwriting Transition (to cursive), and Language Arts 2.  We will be finishing up Science 1 this year and continuing on to Science 2.  Rachel is as pleased as punch to start doing her own school.  She listens in on a lot of Arielle's curriculum, but she is starting Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, Pre-School Comprehensive Curriculum (one of those thick all-in-one books I picked up from Sam's Club) and Reason for Handwriting K.

Borrowing an idea from Miki over at Happy Keeper at Home, I decided to do my own school pictures of the girls.  A photographer I am not, but this was really a much cheaper, more fun way to go!  Enjoy!

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.  You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise."  Deuteronomy 6:4-7 (ESV)

In Christ, Talya