Vikings!

In our first week of My Father's World Adventures we studied the Vikings and as a fun craft we made Viking Hats.

 

 

 

 

 

Still Ramping

We are working our way back into a full school schedule.

 

Today, we brought the whole crew back together for bible.  We started by singing This is My Father's World.   We will sing that every morning ... or so ... through out the year.

 

Don't they look thrilled??/!!!

 

 

 

 

Then we read today's Proverb and colored a page to go along with it.  The whole crew was coloring ... check out Gloria's grip on the crayon!!!

 

Then, I sent them all packing ... and worked with Faith.

 

Here she is working on her creation time line and creation book

 

Hope is moving right along ... look at her writing her name :)

 

 

CHECK THIS OUT .... Seth got this toy and played with it appropriately!!!!! That is the first time he has gotten a toy and then played with it. 

 

Can you see in the picture the red puff above his eyebrow ...  he is hitting himself A LOT ... it started on Sunday and he has not recovered ... he also chewed up one of the cables for his cochlear coil today.  This is really, really bad.  Advances Bionics has been absolutely amazing to work with, but somehow I don't think "kids chewing up the pieces" is covered by warranty.  OY!

 

 

My Kindy Girl

I can hardly believe that my sweet Faith is in Kindergatern.

She will be my 4th to teach kindy to.  Should be a piece of

cake, right?!

 

 

She was very excited this morning!

She wrote her sign with just a bit of help

forming the k and the 2.

 

 

 

Today's number was 1!

 

I did not get a picture of her making

her creation folder.  We are studying

creation for the next 9 days. 

 

So excited!  She loved me reading from

the bible and kept telling me what God

was going to do next.

 

Faith will be using My Father's World Kindergarten,

Explode the Code, Handwriting without Tears, and will

be learning math facts through song and dance.  We

will actually be using a variety of different medias to

master addition and subtraction facts.

 

 

The big kids have been schooling with math and

spelling through the summer.

 

Tomorrow, well actually, later today they will start adding in more subjects.

I have been frantically planning ... and planning  ...
and planning and installing software and updating operating
systems and call in Dell customer service.

I am almost ready for the big kids!  They will ramp into their
new curriculums over the next three weeks. 

This is what I looked at and worked on for a good part of the day.

I ran into a glitch trying to mount and ISO file as a virtual CD/DVD drive.
AHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH .... can't get it to work!

 

I am excited to be back in the school room!

The big kids are using some combination of the following ...
it would be too confusing to list by kiddo ...
My Father's World Adventures
Teaching Textbooks
SOS LA
SOS Bible
Explode the Code
Wordly Wise B & C
Penmanship
First Language Lessons
Writing With Ease
Horizon Phonics
Sequential Spelling
I Can Do All Things
English From the Roots Up
The Complete Book of Time and Money
Pathway Readers "for fun"


I have the first 12 weeks planned ...

 

Getting ready for the new school year ...

Why does it get worse .... before it gets better???

I am working on the school room and some how create piles of messes.  If I don't know what to do with it at the moment, I put it in this area.

 

 

 

 

Who knew lesson planning could be so much fun?!

 

 

 

We got all of our books for Adventures shelved ... and divided with pages

 

 

 

Then we stickered and number the books according to which week they would be used.

 

 

Neatly sorted math blocks that we are not utilizing this year.  The puppies are hidden in a high cupboard.  They are nearly as bad a leggos.

 

 

Chronicling Kindergarten

I cannot believe my little Faith will be starting Kindergarten.  I am going to chronicle her kindy year here. 

We started her first project yesterday; a My Father's World Remembrance Quilt.  We made a quilt for each of the big kids in their kindy year rather than making the badges that My Father's World recommends.  In each unit, a letter, an object and a biblical concept is taught.  For example, "S" is the Sun with the biblical concept of Jesus is the light of the world. 

The green fabric is for the front of the quilt, the paisley fabric is the back of the quilt and the ribbon will make the squares --- yep, it is a cheater quilt. :)

... And just for fun and because I love the so much, here are the big kids quilts.

Joy's Quilt

Gracie's Quilt

Bub's Quilt