Both boys enjoyed school...even if they didn't want to do a picture to prove it. :)
It is such a privilege to be able to teach them at home. I have been really nervous about being the one to provide their education, but now that I am closer to the material, I am realizing that we're just learning together. The program we chose is literature-based, so we are just reading and discussing a lot of really fun stuff! It is so fun to see Vincent get really interested in what we're learning. In Science, we're talking about the earth, and we used a flashlight and a globe (thanks, Nana!!!) to show how it spins and why it's day on one side of the earth and night on the other side. He just couldn't get enough of it! And that was before we even got to the material in the book! He loved looking at the diagrams of the earth's core and photos of a sunrise and a sunset. I could just go on and on. I am so excited to see him excited!
Vincent is reading really well, so he is using First Grade Language Arts material, which means SPELLING WORDS!!! Those of you who know even a little about my dorkiness can guess how fun this is for me.
Today's Laguage Arts lesson was supposed to incorporate story-telling (him making up a story) and before we could even get to it, he wanted to write a story about astronauts because of what we were reading during Science! So instead of moving on to the spelling words right away, we changed our course and wrote a story. He dictated and I transcribed. He is working on the cover of the "book" right now and we will put it all together when he's done. This is why we are homeschooling. I love that we could just adjust our course and move on to what he's excited about. We will circle around and cover they other stuff later today, but for now, we are loving the book we have put together and he feels so proud of what he created.
Anthony is in Pre-K this year, and he listens in on all our stories and works on things that develop his skills for his developmental level. He's my hands-on guy, so we get lots of fun stuff to play with for him!
