First day of School!

We decided to start school early this year so that we have more flexibility to take breaks during the year. For example, we'll take off Monday August 25th because we will be at my parents house for the weekend and will be coming home that day. We may take a longer Christmas vacation as well, who knows.

We are easing back into school. M is in 2nd grade and G is in Kindergarten. This week we will only be doing Bible. Next week we will add in Reading, and the following week another subject, we'll keep adding one or two subjects a week until we have a full load.

Our Bible curriculum is something I just made up. I hope it was inspired! We will be memorizing the books of the Bible, 5 per week at a time. This week will be the first five books of the Bible. We will practice saying them each day, plus we will choose one verse to memorize each week. Each day we will learn about one of the books, today for example, we learned about Genesis. We learned about the author, some of the main stories in the book, and some facts about the book. I also gave the boys some coloring pages about Adam and Eve. Tomorrow we will learn about Exodus, and so on. I know that won't take the whole school year but I figure we'll do review after that and by then come up with something more. Perhaps memorizing the key verses from each book? I'm not sure yet. We may just go over the whole thing again!

Overall I think today went pretty well. We started kinda late since I slept in. We began with the pledge of allegiance to the American flag, then the pledge to the Christian flag, the pledge to the Bible and then prayer. After that we had our Bible lesson and that was it!

One thing that is nice about having school is that it seems to bring more structure to our days. There is more that has to be accomplished each day. We aren't rigid at all but it is good for us to have a routine. For Dh and I as much as for our kids!

My goal is to start getting up at 6 AM before the boys. That is going to take some work though!