Been awhile....

Finally! We finally got school started back up again today!

I'm still sick...after three weeks...and exhausted. But we could no longer put off starting back up. Fortunately, I have THE BEST curriculum ever so starting slowly is very easy to do and still makes school worthwhile. :) Thank the Lord for Five in a Row.

This week we are rowing the Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge. It's such a great book! We looked at pictures of New York on the internet (pictures I found and pre-approved as safe viewing!), including looking at the lighthouse the book was written about! It was really neat for Adisson to see that the book was written about a lighthouse that truly exists somewhere, even today. It really brought the story to life for him.

He also had math today. Unfortunately, when we stopped doing school work before the holidays, I didn't realize that his next math lesson would be a test. However, he breezed through most of it with little difficulty. :) I was happy and so was he!

His spelling words this week are words I got from the book. He got bored with writing, because he only enjoys writing when it's not for school, so he was allowed to write only half of his words today. Had this not been the first day back to school after a long break, I would have had him finish the list. :)

He also was allowed to pick any book off of the bookshelf for his read aloud book. He chose "But No Elephants!" by Jerry Smath. We both enjoyed the funny book! :)

This week we'll be learning about a few different art techniques, compound words, personification, counting, bridges and lighthouses. We'll also be building our own lighthouse and bridge! That's the topics we'll be covering with Five in a Row. Math will be continuing on with lessons, as we may have to start doing two worksheets a day to finish up the curriculum before the end of the year. Spelling words will be reviewed, with a "test" given on Friday.

Tonight Adisson is out running errands with his dad, Zander is wrapped up in playing with his Veggie Tale pirates, and I am hoping to get the kitchen cleaned up while cooking dinner. Oh and doing laundry. :)

God bless!