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

• Aug. 24, 2009 - Day 1 Went Well :)

Copyright 2008-2009 Sweetpetunia. Day one of Dude's homeschooling went well despite a rocky start. Instead of sleeping in this morning as Grandma and I went off to the gym, Princess woke up and was very upset that I was leaving and she let the whole house and half the neighborhood know it. So of course all the littles woke up and I had to drag Ninja out of bed to watch them. When I came back, Dude and Tink were playing their own spin-off of Bolt they've titled "Bolt and Storm" and Dude did not want to come do school. I think he may have thought I wanted to send him off to preschool again because he made some hand motions indicating he was thinking about traveling to his last preschool and I tried to explain to him that we're homeschooling now but it took several tries at it before he understood what I was saying. He finally started to get it when I told him that Ms. Falcon was not his teacher anymore, but I am. He then spied the box I keep the MFW K worksheets in and he briefly stopped protesting. He remembered that box from last year when we'd begun including him in with Tink as she finally finished up her turn through MFW K. Dude begged to open the box. I finally let him after we were done covering his ABC cards with contact paper. He happily pulled out the ABC flash cards and began naming everything on them. Yay! He remembered them. :) We still had a few kinks to work out but we got through it. I read the scripture reading to Dude out of the teacher's manual, but he wasn't following.  Then I read about day 1 of creation from the Read With Me Bible and the illustrations caught his eye. Immediately after, we watched the segment on creation from Volume 1 of the Read and Share DVD Bible. I got it at a really good price at CBD, knowing I might need it to introduce the Dude to Bible stories since my reading them to him doesn't seem to hold his attention. Tomorrow I'm going to follow directions and read about day 2 of creation directly from the Bible. That might help the Dude understand he needs to listen up. If not, he's still getting the gist of the story from the Read with me Bible and the DVD Bible. I really like the set-up of MFW K's creation lessons. Since we covered the story of day 1 of creation several times, the Dude appears to be getting the concept. By the time we were on to our last project, the creation book, Dude was saying, "Light and dark!". I think this is going to work. Princess had fallen asleep while Grandma and I were gone and she woke up in the middle of our school session so we included her in our crafts. She liked using the glue sticks and wanted to cut things out.lol. I'll have to find her some safety scissors so she can do just that. I know I have a children's CD of songs and hymns but it must be packed away so I had to play This Is My Father's World online. This version was pretty so we listened to it. Hopefully the Dude will learn it. Right now he's watching the rest of his DVD Bible. Tink starts back up next week. I think my schedule is going to work well. If my mom and I can get to the gym and back home a bit earlier, Tink can get dressed and start on her individual school work while I do K with Princess and the Dude. Since we'll be done by 10 or 11 a.m., Tink and I can then finish off her school work and probably be done by 3 or 4 in the afternoon. Once Tink and I get done with ECC, we're going to use Sonlight Core 3+4. This should go better without Ninja and we'll take it nice and easy. It's shaping up to be a good year this year.

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