July 9, 2012
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First day of school ~ 2012-2013
Wow! Year 4 of homeschooling and honestly it only gets more fun! (Look at bottom of post to see “first day of school” for the first 3 years…amazing how little they were!)
Last year we completed our first year of My Father’s World 1st grade and I can’t say enough good things about My Father’s World! We LOVED it! It was a perfect fit for our family and totally teacher friendly!
This year Miles and Luke will both be doing My Father’s World Adventures for their core curriculum.
They both also will be doing Alpha Math-U-See. (I wish I would have done Alpha last year…oh well! No need to stress over math!)
With My Father’s World you add reading and spelling at age appropriate level.
Miles will be doing Rod and Staff spelling and Primary Language Lessons.
Luke will finish up: Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (He became super frustrated with this and so we put it aside and waited till he was more ready). When he is finished with that we will work through: My Father’s World First Grade Student Workbook and First grade Bible reader.
Of course we’ll have lots of library days and fun adventures in the year to come!
The reason we are starting in the middle of summer is we do a 6 week on, 2 off schedule pretty much year round and then we took 8 weeks off (May/June). Plus we will be taking 3 weeks off in September, so I wanted a good amount of school under our belt before we have that long of a break!
First day!
My awesome 2nd grader!
My amazing 1st grader!
My adorable preschooler (my goal for him is shapes, colors, and potty training!)
This is our general schedule!
After a trip to the dollar store and the library Luke and Miles came home to color, Luke worked on his American flag!
Always fun to get new markers!
Luke drew this (without being told or asked) of the USA!
Comments (5)
Cute. I love your enthusiasm! Your boys are getting so B.I.G!
Sounds like fun! How did your kids do with My Fathers World? We are choosing to do that this year with K for our 2 boys. Do you have to suppliment or was that your choice? How did you kids like it? Looking forawrd to starting in August but need to get some loose ends tied up before then! Thanks for you help!
@GodsDucks - My boys LOVE My Father’s World.You do have to supplement with 1st and beyond…not sure about K. There are groups on FB with each year of MFW! If you go on there you can connect with other moms going through MFW K!It is just a really AWESOME curriculum and I investigated curriculum for 2 years before we landed here! LOVE IT!
Your first day gives me hope that we can have a first day again this year too. We just finished our last year just over a week ago, so we won’t start until August, and I haven’t even finished tidying up last year’s work yet.
Your boys are getting so big!We will be doing My Father’s World this year. I am excited.Your post got me into a school mood. Happy School Year to you!!! =)