Living and Learning With the Kvenvolden Bunch

Aug. 25, 2008

Our first day of school!! 8/25/08

Dad helping Nik read.   Ok, so not ENTIRELY true...  we've been doing partial days the past 2 weeks to ease into the school schedule after a long summer break, which worked AWESOME! it was the best transition we've had so far in 8 years of schooling! Today we started the school year with Alex, 8th grade, Nik, 3rd grade, Chloe, 2nd grade, and Annabeth, Kindergarten.   I was surprised at how well Anna assimilated into our class.  She's by far the most advanced of all the children at age 4, hence why she is starting K a year early!! Our day began with mom and Alex doing our individual devotions, and Nik reading his story bible to dad to practice his phonics.  Then we commenced with  our first hymn.  We are studying and learning the hymn "come thou fount"  which we will be singing and memorizing for the first part of this year.  When that is learned we'll move on to another.  Then we prayed together and read the Vos story Bible together.   That prompted a discussion about WHERE on earth the garden of eden was located.  Dad, who was home due to a sprained wrist from yesterday when he was playing soccer with the kids in the rain and slipped and biffed it, landing on his wrist! ouch!  Helped to research on the internet about the garden, and we determined that due to the flood it would be hard to say with any definity WHERE the garden of eden was.  Most scholars think it was in Turkey, which HAPPENED to be the first unit in our geography study we just started "A child's geography, the holy land"  Dad pointing out places on the map So on we proceeded to geography! we found Turkey on the globe, then alex found it on the mark it map and labeled it.  We learned about the 4 seas bordering Turkey and a bit about the culture and how Istanbul is divided by the strait of bosphorous causing that city to be located in both asia AND europe!   We continued with lunch, leftover chinese food :-)  and after chores the children split up and Anna played with Leif as Chloe did her phonics and math practice on time4learning and Nik and Alex continued their Science study that we've been doing the past few weeks to learn about how the brain processes the sense of taste.  They learned about taste buds and we planned to do the experiment from the module tomorrow since we were way out of time today.    The afternoons are typically free for the children to pursue their own personal interests as well as doing their assigned and free reading for the day. Whew!  it was a good day!

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