lessons have begun

About 4 weeks ago we started our homeschool lessons. R is second grade this year. This year we have new students. His sister who is now officially a toddler and wants to be a part of everything we do! His older brother who is in 9th grade this year!

Yep - we have been talking about bringing Sage home and homeschooling him again for a couple of years, and this year we did it!! As he heads into high school we wanted to make sure he has a good solid foundation before he heads off to college. He is one that needs more time to focus and concentrate on his work, at school he was too easily distracted. Not too mention peer pressure. So far he is doing great. We registered him in the free virtual school and I can already notice his confidence in his abilities as well as him becoming an independent learner. The 2 main reasons for homeschooling him. He told me the other day that he loved homeschooling!! yeah.

With little A everywhere i am trying to stick the Christopherus Curric that I have. In the past I only use potions of the guide and change things around.

We started with a 2 week math review block and form drawing. Since the weather here allows us to be outside ALOT - we took our lessons to the driveway.

The math block is followed by a 4 week Language Arts Saints/ word family block.

We have started writing our own word family story book together. First the AVE family

Then the EER and EAR families

We started our Saints Stories with Genevieve of Paris. Trying to use our watercolors to paint Genevieve was a bit of a challenge - but they came out ok.

We added a summary in our lesson book.
THe second story we worked on was Kun and Yu. We really spent our time on this block crayon drawing to get the drawing of Yu the best we could.

In addition to our lessons we have joined a Waldorf co-op that meets 2x a week where the boys will be learning violin,recorder,spanish,handwork,circle,yoga and drama!! What fun.

To add to that Sage is in a financial club and I am sure there will be many more homeschool adventures this year!! !

We are off to a good start.