So school started yesterday and in our house it looks a little different than in previous years.
I woke up feeling a little excited, a little nervous and very much relieved that Noah was going to be home with me this year!
It was raining and I didn't have a special 'first day of school' outfit, so naturally I was worried about how I was going to get our traditional '1st day of school' photos.
Before school even started, I left both boys sleep to go to my appointment to have my 'suspicious mole' removed from over my eye. Looking forward to the results in a couple of weeks. Here's the before and after:
BEFORE AFTER
So as I was driving home from the hospital, I realized that we don't need to take the same type of photo as last year on our 'first' day of school....because it's different!
So here is our new 'first day of school' photo, Noah proudly and excitedly showing his school work for the year!
Can ya tell he's one happy boy?
So this is what our new school day looks like:
First period of the day:
GYM CLASS (30 min)
WII style
I join in, but probably wasn't a good idea.
At the end, my incision was bleeding a bit
and I had lots of throbbing over my eye!
Next up:
MATH (60 minutes)
Saxon 54
Noah is SO strong in math and loves it!
Next up:
LANGUAGE ARTS (30 min)
(on the couch with our dog)
Pathway Readers: Building Our Lives
Reading aloud and comprehension
Next:
back to the kitchen table for
more
LANGUAGE ARTS (30 min)
using
Growing with Grammar
Grammar is something the public schools no longer teach (around here),
so this was a whole new concept for Noah.
I'm sure he'll struggle a bit, but we'll work that through!
Next:
more
LANGUAGE ARTS (30 min)
using Spelling Workout
considering Noah has been in French,
we have gone heavy into Language Arts
to get his English up to speed.
In January, we plan to order
Rosetta Stone French
to have him keep up what he has already learned in French.
For now, we want him to focus on English to give him a little base!
Then we had some outdoor play time and lunch.
After lunch:
SCIENCE (30 min)
Noah confesses that this is his MOST exciting subject
and can't wait to get into doing more experiments!
Then we did some reading about:
CANADIAN HISTORY (15 min)
&
CANADIAN GEOGRAPHY (15 min)
with the help of the cat and dog
from a couple of books I picked up through Scholastic last year
Noah LOVED these subjects and was FULL of questions.
I had to call a friend who 1. is a teaching mom and 2. IS a teacher & 3. is a Christian,
to help me out with some deep questions Noah was asking about Creation vs. Evolution and about dinosaurs and God!
She was SO sweet and helped Noah (and I) out. She went above and beyond. We had her on the phone for a good 20 minutes. I am SO thankful for her time, Thanks Shawna!!!
Luckily, she invited to attend their church on the 26th (I think), to meet a 'Creationist'. A creationist is someone who specializes in creation theories.
We are SO excited for this opportunity!
We will do this every day and wanting to be involved, Jacques said he will teach the
full curriculum for these 2 subjects (yay, gives mama a break)!
After school was done, Noah worked on some cursive writing
with the cat's help, of course!!
After supper, Jacques was just as excited as
I was to get to his teaching so we did some more:
HISTORY (30 min)
I LOVE that Jacques LOVES history and he rocks it out!
Noah was FULL of questions
So that's it folks, this is what our new day looks like.
Thoughts after day one:
- Noah is ONE happy boy who is so excited to be learning.
- He had a day FULL of RESPECT.
- He finished the school day with NO headache
- (last year, he came home EVERY day with a headache).
- He's energetic and wants to do more.
- I am extremely tired (possibly to do with waking up at 5:30am).
- I have NO headache.
- I am one happy mama watching my boy LOVE learning today.
- I am excited (after we went to staples and got his science book all ready) to 'not' be confused about science today.
- Looking forward to another day!
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