Day Two

WooHoo! Two days in a row ~ We're on a roll. LOL I even had to do a quick grocery run today and we still did school!

We started with Bible Reading and Mystery of History. Today we learned about the Garden of Eden and then I gave the boys some play-doh so they could invent and name their own animals. All of them were really into that. I thought Adam and Ryan might think it too babyish but they both put a lot of effort into their work. Ryan's is the purple blob. It looks like he didn't try very hard but he actually had a whole story to go with that blob. It's a Destroyer and it's camouflaged to look like a pile of rocks. When prey walks over the rocks, the Destroyer closes up on it and Yummy, there's dinner! Matthew thought the play-doh was dinner... or lunch. It only took one taste though and he was crying and trying to get that play-doh film out of his mouth!

After play-doh, all three boys worked on Math. That went pretty smoothly even though they all needed a little direction to get started. Evan did much better at writing numbers today! Or, at least he thought he did. He's still not very good at it but today he was very confident instead of whiny.

Evan started his phonics book today. He uses A Beka and they teach the kids how to mark the vowel sounds so they can differentiate between long and short vowel sounds. It seems like overkill to me but it works so we'll do it for a while. Anyway, Evan was drawing little smileys over the short vowel sounds when he came to the word "God." He stopped and said, "Mommy, it's nice to have God in school books." I couldn't agree more!!! As he drew the smiley over the O, he said, "Smile.. because I love God." I love homeschooling. :)

All the other subjects went smoothly too. I made each boy a weekly schedule with the subjects listed for each day. They're doing pretty well checking the list and doing what they need to do. I may regret scheduling a vacation in the middle of September if school keeps going this well!