First Grade | The Sweet Life of Reagan, Emmy, & Max

August ’13 happenings…

I am going to be trying to do some major ‘catch up’. I don’t know how I let myself get so behind. Actually I do know- it’s called three kids, business, homeschool, and life! ha

Reagan’s art pieces from TC! Her teacher Ms. Margarat Migas is seriously the best at bringing amazing talent out of children.

Writing spelling words, letters, and shapes in shaving cream-

Our spelling curriculum “All About Spelling”. It is a very thorough program. I really like it- it just takes some extra time to complete the lessons. We just do AAS every now and then. I hope to maybe incorporate it more over the summer to help keep her on track.

My Healthy food-

TJ’s Cinnamon almonds, kiwi, blueberry yogurt with blueberries and flax seed….

And a banana/kale shake (not as bad as you might think!)…

Stamping out spelling words-

Emmy making a snake. Reagan doing her Sonlight LA copy work. Sonlight’s program believes in hearing, seeing, and modeling good literature in order to teach. Every week has a copy work section where she simply has to copy what she reads.

Dixie hanging out during home school and then helping clean up a mac n cheese fiasco.

Mommy/Emmy Thursday Zoo Trip-

Our first stop to Earthfare “The healthy supermarket” was a surprise when we walked up on the bakery! I wasn’t expecting such yummy treats to be in there! ha

Emmy always peeks in Reagan’s last class while we wait to pick her up. She cannot wait until she can go to TC.

A boy obsessed with plungers (unused, of course! ewww)-

Sunday Dinner goodness-

Journaling my calorie intake and burn-

How about the day I decided I was going to drink a whole gallon of water… Fail.

Hanging out of the sunroof of my car on a warm summer afternoon….

Thursday morning nap in the car-

Emmy/Mommy Thursday Zoo Trip-

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Back To School, Back to School

So after spending hours and hours and hours and hours and hours (you get the idea) researching home school curriculum, I decided to go with a company called Sonlight. Sonlight Curriculum is a Christian, literature-based program. The selling point for me was that it comes with Instruction Guides that tell you everything to do. You get everything you need (pretty much) for the entire year in one box. Last year, I used a wide variety of curriculum and hands-on activities, but I wanted something with more structure this year. With my busy schedule, I needed something more planned out and “ready-to-go”. It was a more expensive choice, but seemed worth it for everything you get.

Here’s a picture from our “box day” when it arrived in the mail. I admit, opening the box and pulling out/sorting all the stuff was overwhelming. After having used the curriculum for several weeks now, I will give a more in depth review of our experience (this far) sometime soon.

1st day of home school– Pancake breakfast!

I let them choose their outfits for some quick 1st day pictures on the front porch. (It’s fun to not have a dress code to worry about!) They were sure to model their new backpacks!

Even though our routine is pretty flexible, it looks something like this-

(if time) Opening Activity on rug (shape blocks, sight word bingo, etc) with classical music playing

Play the Bible Verse of week on CD (Sing the Word: From A-Z)

Here they are saying the Pledge of Allegiance. They always want to stand on the table while they do it (they did last year, too). Not sure why they do that, but whatever….