A Look into our Second Week of Homeschool.

This was our second week of school. It was rather frustrating as my youngers and middles worked hard and my olders seemed to struggle with the concept that since they are older and studying some new things, that their book time school day will take a bit longer.

After much thought and prayer, I have decided to have my older two do half pages of work on a couple subjects a day. I didn’t decide to homeschool in order to completely overwhelm my children. I can always add more later, but if I burn them out in week two or three, what have I accomplished?

I am also scheduling Who is God a bit differently. I love this program, and know that if we take it a bit slower, we will come out ahead, gaining a better understanding to the beginning of gaining a Biblical Worldview…ultimately what I want my children to learn.

In My Life this Week…

In Science Class… Lora is learning about predators and prey. She has been drawing lots of pictures for her science notebook and working on her science Lapbook from A Journey Through Learning.

Philip has been working through Apologia’s General Science and I am excited to say, our new Notebook for Apologia General Science just came in the mail. I love all the extra Bible Discussion in the new notebook.

This is not the notebook I ordered. It is a free one, but I wanted the new one, that has many more Biblical insights.

In History, we have continued notebooking as a review of last year’s studies. We will be starting up where we left off this next week.

In Geography, we are studying Turkey. This has been quite interesting.

In Bible/Character. We have been covering obedience and studying lots of scripture in depth. We are also studying Proverbs in depth with Kevin Swanson.

Our older two are working through Who is God from Apologia, and the youngers and I are working through Answers for Kids 1. I am really liking these little books. We are also using the A Journey Through Learning Lapbooks with these.

In Math…

We have covered things from counting and number formation to addition, to multiplying fractions, to multiplying decimals, to reducing fractions. Some days I get quite confused when trying to help a child learn a new concept. So far, math is definitely the hardest subject for me to teach.

In Language Arts:

In Analytical Grammar they are covering nouns, adjectives, articles, and more. In Jump In, they are discovering their strengths in writing. They are also writing quite a bit in their Geography and History projects.

What We are Reading, I am reading 7Tools still. My children are reading numerous books on creation.

Week three is going to be spent doing more farm/garden stuff. We will be making pickles, apple sauce, and apple pie filling. We will be picking apples, and cleaning seed wheat. We will also be hosting a homeschool gathering. I think we will cover nearly every subject, without cracking a text book!!

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