First Day of School- Officially Kindergarteners!

  It's official, as of today, school is in session!  It's hard to believe that these two little boys of mine are Kindergarteners.  Time flies by way too quickly.  I must say, when I see that yellow school bus drive by, I am so happy that God has blessed us with the opportunity to school them from home.  This mama, is in no way, shape, or form, ready to ship them off to a public school.  For many more reasons than just the yellow school bus!
  We are not straying too far from the curriculum that we had chosen last year. 
            -We L-O-V-E-D Before Five In A Row last year, so we will move on to Volume 1 in Five In A Row.  It outlines various subjects on a specific book that you "row" every day for five days.  However, I always find that there is so much to do and not enough time.  So, our FIAR activities may extend for 6-10 days.  We'll see.  It integrates Geography, History, Language Arts, Art, Science, etc.   
            - Math-U-See is our math book of choice.  We'll be moving on to the Alpha book in the next couple of weeks. 
            - For our penmanship, we will be using Handwriting Without Tears again.   
            - Hooked On Phonics worked for us last year, so we will continue on to the First Grade level this year. 
            - I am still on the fence as to what I'm going to use for Bible curriculum this year.  This week, I have used Resource Well for ideas on top of Google/Pinterest for go-alongs.  This leads to a lot of late nights.  So, I will be exploring other avenues.  (Most likely, the FIAR Christian Supplement)
            - For spelling, the boys will be going through the first grade spelling lists from K12Reader.
            - And, I will be attempting to add in a composer/artist once every few months.  Ambleside Online has a lot of great resources.

Phfew!  That seems like a lot.  We may have to whittle that back.  But, at least it's a plan, right?  That has to count for something!  We started rowing Lentil, by Robert McCloskey, today.  And we are studying the Parable of the Talents in our Bible time.

Without further adieu...the classroom participants:

Mr. "B"

Mr. "C"

Baby "J"- who I'm sure will be getting into trouble most of the time

 See ya next week!

Coming soon to a blog near you...

     Hello all of you (maybe-still) faithful followers.  I'm sure you fell over backward when you saw this post up!  Especially since we have been MIA for a little over 3 months.  Rest assured, we are still around.  Where have we been?  You might ask, or maybe you wouldn't!  Things just got too crazy and overwhelming that we needed a teeny tiny, OK, who am I kidding...a longgggg break.  We have done a few things here and there this summer, but expect to be starting school full force in two weeks.
     We are excited to be continuing the Math-U-See, Hooked on Phonics, Handwriting Without Tears, Bible, & Five in a Row curriculum, as well as adding a few new subjects to our lineup.  Thanks for sticking around.  Let the fun begin!!

Spring has (finally) sprung!

   I just wanted to take a moment to thank God for all of the beautiful weather that we've been having lately.  I, for one, am not the biggest fan of winter time (as many around me well know).  So, to see these exquisite spring flowers open up over the past week, has been simply marvelous.

Violet's popping up in the front yard

Tulip's in the flowerbed

 

  

We couldn't resist taking a break and enjoying some outside time this week:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taking in all the sunshine and nice breeze...

Enjoying a game of soccer

     The rain is headed our way tomorrow...which means that we will be seeing more and more beautiful flowers.  Oh, how I love the spring!  Have a lovely week.