2nd day of school

Today was our second day of homeschool. Our first day was a bit more hectic because we had swimming lessons in the morning. I didn't want our first day of school pictures to be in swimsuits so I waited until today to do first day pictures. School has been going very well. The kids seem to really like what we have chosen for this year. It will take a while to get them used to the routine. However, I do feel good about this year so far. But it is only day two.

Here are some pictures of the kiddos and our first day of homeschool.

Emmalee - 2nd grade



Eoin - 1st grade




Here are pictures of some activities we did today.

So much stuff, so little time

We are getting ready to start our homeschool year. I have researched more hours than I really want to admit. This is what we are going to be using this year.

My 2nd grader:
Math - Horizons 2 and flashcards. I did purchase another math workbook to help cement the skills for her. She struggles with math most of the time. We will do only four days a week to allow lessons to go through the summer.

Language Arts - BJU English 2 and Reading 2, Spelling 2. She will also be reading chapter books that she picks on her own. I like BJU English because it incorporates writing, grammar and phonics skills. I am not thrilled with the spelling. I will probably make some adjustments to their program but I am not going to switch right now.

Handwriting - BJU 2 for this as well. Again, I am not thrilled with it but it will work for now. I might make up my own copy work sheets

My 1st grader:

Math - Horizons 1 and flashcards. He is very good at math and probably could pass his sister up if I would push him a little harder.

Language Arts - BJU 1 reading, phonics and spelling. Reading seems to be where he struggles. He is a slow reader. He needs more practice and he will catch up.

Handwriting - BJU 1 for this again.

Both:

We are using My Father's World Adventures for Bible, history, geography, art, music and science. For Latin, we are using prima latina. It will interesting to do Latin. Mike and I are excited about learning it as well.

There will be other things we do that I have forgotten to list here. I can think of a couple of others already. They will both be doing explode the code books and we will be doing life skills training.

If you go to the not back to school blog hop you can find out what more poeple are using

Not blogging much lately

I have found that I have been too busy with many other things to find the time to blog. However, I do hope to change that.

We are getting ready to start our school year and I have decided I want to blog about our homeschool journey as well as family life. I think that it would be fun and a way to remember what we do during the year. So many other homeschooling moms blog about their journey and I enjoy reading the posts. I don't know if many will read this blog or not but I do hope that those who do will at least get a laugh every so often.