I love some of the neat things some home schooling families do to start off their new school year, Special breakfasts out, goody bags with new supplies, a special Homeschool T-shirt announcing to the world your children are “unsocialized“( love that one). But us, well, we sort of just ease our way into things slowly and don’t really make much of a fuss about it. I’d like to do those sorts of things and just maybe one of these years I’ll get it together and actually do something fun to mark that official start. Oh, I did get a little silver school bell that DD rung before sitting down at the table… does that count? DD had been asking daily when we’re going to get started again and R was just getting a bit stir crazy (or was that me) so I knew that it was time. So we did some cursive practice, Phonogram review and started a few spelling lessons, Language lessons, and some math. We went to the library and filled our book basket for our unit study. Looks like some really great books as I had expected. I was happy to see DD so excited saying, “Oh Good, we get to do book basket again!!!” We’ve been having fun looking at books on optical illusions and trying out optical tricks on each other as we get ready to study The first day of Creation: light. DD couldn’t help reading “All of a Kind Family” right away and looks forward to having a real Sabbath. We looked through our Creation To the Greeks resources and talked about the different things we’ll be learning this year. R and little J were excited too as I think they realize that our “school year” means spending time learning and doing new things together. It means some work but it also means special time as a family exploring God’s world and making a lifetime of memories.

Happy School Starting Days

to my fellow Homeschooling friends

and blessings on a fruitful year ahead