First day of Lessons

This morning was Ryan's first day of lessons and it went great! He was so excited that he woke up early and put on a "handsome"shirt so he would look nice. He packed his backpack and waited for the "bus"(just like his brother). We went on a short walk and came home to start our day.

Our morning went like this:

Light candle and play beanbag games while also saying our morning verse:
The earth is firm beneath my feet,
The sun shines bright above,
And here stand I, so straight and strong,
All things to know and love.
Good morning, Good morning



Next we practiced our form drawing. Just working on a few forms at a time.
After that was storytime. I read the story of the "Fairy Weaver". The night before I drew this picture on the chalk board to represent the beginning of the story when Eileen comes out of her house in the morning. Tomorrow we will do block crayon drawings from the story and then on Thursday do some weaving.


Flowing with our inbreath and outbreath rhythm, we go out the beanbags again and practiced counting while throwing them in the air. This lead into our intro into Math Gnomes. 4 gnomes called Addition,subtraction,minus and divide. We spent time practing with each of these gnomes. Below is a picture of all of our gnomes in a circle listening to the story of the gnomes and their gnome king. It was fun to sit on the floor together learning. We spent the most time working on our math skills today.


That ended our lessons for the day and we moved on to music , cleaning and the rest of our day.

I learned alot last year working with Ryan and I think this year I have some good ideas of how to work with him. Last year I learned:

lighting a candle and singing does not work - h/e this year lighting a candle and playing with the beanbags does (so far).

Ryan always wanted to be the "teacher" and was very resistant to my leading our lessons. This year I have an apron that I put on when it is lesson time to let him know that at that point I am leading. One of the reasons I homeschool is so that my son can think for himself and come up with ideas of what and how he wants to learn. At the same time in these early years I really need to be his guide during our hour lesson time. The rest of the day it is a child-led,life learning enviroment.

We will have good days and bad days , today was great! How cool that you can go to school in your socks, bring your blanket and wear a crown!