We are now entering our third week of school. To answer your question of whether our first year is off to a good start, I would give a resounding, "Yes!" It wasn't easy learning to teach to our two children on two different levels (with a toddler in the background, I might add), but the Lord has given me direction and I am able to teach them at the same time without losing my focus. With thanks to one of my sisters in Christ, I have found this verse to meditate upon for our school year:
Eph 4:29 "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." May the Lord bridle my tongue and use me to build up my children, as well as train them in the way they should go.
Our first unit of our year is the "Attentive" unit from the KONOS book. (You can read more about it and the other books for our curriculum
here.) We are studying our five senses, as well the expedition of Lewis and Clark. It will be a seven-week unit in which we will spend one week on each sense individually, as well as an overall look at the five senses in general for one week at the beginning, and one week at the end of the unit. We have just finished week two, studying the eye and sight in-depth. The kids are really loving this unit, and I'm glad the Lord gave me this path to take. (If you would like to have more details about this unit-study, feel free to check out my 7-year old's blog
here. She "tries" to update daily.) We have found some great exercises and videos online, and are looking forward to learning about our sense of taste this week.
When we begin our study of the ear and hearing, we plan to visit one of the free performances at the
Singletary Center, which will have a full calendar once the college students are back full-time. We're also hoping to visit the
Hummel Planetarium in Richmond, KY for one of our weeks, but I'm going to have to make sure we don't have any belief conflicts before I plan that trip any further. From there, I don't know where this unit will take us, but I'm very encouraged by the excitement I see in my children, as well as their desire to learn more.
Do you have any suggestions for our upcoming weeks? I'd love to hear from you, so please leave a comment below!
Very encouraging...especially in light of us starting tomorrow. I hope we can have a successful start.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. :))