K-Fam's journey through My Father's World

• Aug. 23, 2009 - Starting MFW Kindergarten Tomorrow

Copyright 2008-2009 Sweetpetunia. The Dude starts homeschool tomorrow. I really hope he likes it. I'm thinking that after my mom and I get home from the gym, I'll get The Dude and Princess ready for the day, leaving Tink on her own to laze about for another week since she only got a short summer break and Ninja starts her second week of school, this time all on her own, checking in with me at the end of the day to make sure she got it all done. I still can't believe it when I hear Ninja say she's excited about school. She surprised me again with those words tonight. She also thanked me for continuing to homeschool her and her siblings despite all the discouraging words from her grandparents. That was so sweet. I really appreciated her saying that and I told her so. Her comments were really nice to hear after a bit of negativity from MIL tonight. MIL thinks homeschooling will be bad for the Dude and she's sure to tell me so approximately every other week. I'm slightly nervous about how well the Dude is going to handle school and having to sit and listen to me for a couple of hours. This is going to be a bit different from when I taught Tink. Since we started so late teaching Tink, (she was 7) she and I had already completed 100 Easy Lessons so the MFW K reading instruction was all review and I think it really helped to reinforce her reading skills. The Dude is still only on lesson 66 because of all the public preschool (and Princess and other) interruptions but I do have to say he has a pretty good grasp on the idea of reading. He's constantly sounding out words on his own. Perhaps it won't be a problem if I do Dude's Kindergarten instruction in the morning and try teaching him reading with 100 Easy Lessons in the evenings after dinner. The plan is do start off with Princess, reading a Bible story book to her and listening to some Bible songs, then maybe some other preschool songs or nursery rhymes, then I might include her in the Dude's learning, having her participate in the crafts or using Tink's leftover worksheets or a preschool workbook. Then I'll work with Tink while the babies play. I may ask them if they want to participate in any of Tinks activities like coloring flags or John 3:16 coloring pages since she's not quite through with ECC. After looking at the Dude's curriculum for tomorrow, it looks like I should be reading about each day of creation for the first week or so of school, then we'll jump into the weekly lessons covering the topics laid out by MFW. I was a little worried about whether or not he would understand the language presented since it can be a bit lengthy for him and it's directly from the NIV translation of the Bible. I remembered a small purple children's Bible we've had since perhaps Ninja was a tot and after looking at it, I think I may either substitue reading from it or read it in addition to the scheduled scriptures. The stories are much shorter, sometimes only a short sentence about each day of creation and the illustrations look like they may catch the Dude's attention. Of course the visual help is probably exactly what he'll need. I'm not quite sure, but it looks like this little Bible is out of print or has possibly been revised because every time I searched for the exact title, something slightly different came up. Not that it matters so much to me. I think all the pages are intact so I won't need a replacement. It's called the Read With Me Bible: An NIV Story Bible for Children. If the littles can follow it well enough, I may continue reading it to them as a sort of devotional every morning. Or I could start off with a simpler Bible story book set I have so they can get familiar with the stories, then read through the Read With Me Bible once we're done. So it's late and DH is telling me it's time for bed, he's done watching the Princess. Gotta run.

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