School Days

Last Monday we began having school days. Our summer days become so extremely hot towards the end of July and being outside is so very unappealing. So I decided to try starting school on the icky hot time of year so that our school days will end when the weather is great! Here are HC and JB posing for their school days picture. (I forgot to take a picture on day 1 of school - so this will have to do this year.) We are studying Creation, using My Father's World, and here are the numbers HC colored for each day of creation. Each number has pictures on it showing what God created. JB has been listening to our Bible lessons and creating too, usually his own creation. They've played with puzzles and made comments to me such as "We aren't having a school day today are we Mom? We're having a play day." The puzzles are part of the curriculum and the kids LOVE them!! :) School and learning has been fun!!!
In addition, HC colored a page for each day of creation. She drew fish and birds for Day 5 and animals and people for day 6. She really did well drawing. Last year she didn't enjoy drawing and I was concerned she would be overwhelmed with the daily drawings. She really did fantastic! She didn't show the slightest concern that everything wasn't perfect. I was glad she had fun with it.
So, we discussed Day 7 today. HC has a booklet to read - that she made!! It has been a fun start to our schooling so far. We don't even miss out on any of the fun things our friends are doing (although we did miss a movie today - but we can watch it tomorrow if we want!).
I did write the words for HC in pencil and she traced them. There have been more wins in our school day too - I will share that soon enough. I was thrilled to find a simple tool to help HC enjoy reading again!!! More to come!