We began home schooling the children the first week of October. It is going really well as I love to teach the children and Joshua and Sophia are spectacular students. Sophia is a little more motivated than little Joshua who tends to sometimes squirm in his seat ready for the next adventure but, nevertheless, he is reading and, more importantly, is excited about it! We have BOB books and his face gleams with pride when he can finish the next book in the series. Yesterday he read Goodnight Moon to Emily, with a little help from Mom on the more difficult vocabulary words, and I am not sure who was more proud - me or him. It is very fulfilling to watch a whole new world open up before your child's eyes. He is quickly working his way through our math curriculum and seems to have an affection for the numerical world - kinda like his mama... there is nothing like the predictability of pluses, minuses and equal signs.
We started our school year quite ambitiously with weekly lessons plans filled with reading, writing and arithmetic plus art, science, literature and social studies/geography. That worked well when Emily was napping in the morning but now that she has changed to just the afternoon nap our schedule had to be modified as well. We aim for reading, writing and math every school day but I like to add the other subjects when I am able. I have attached some pictures from the day we read The Tortoise and the Hare and had an indoor "push the egg with your nose" race. Last week on our science day we read about volcanoes and the children created a volcano out of Playdoh and we created an experiment with baking soda, dish soap and vinegar that made the volcano actually erupt. It was fascinating!
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