First day of school

Well, we started school today. I'm not happy about a few things (but it's all Lilli and her likes/dislikes, not the curriculum) so we'll have to tweek a little but it'll all work out.

We finished everything except our Read Aloud which includes today's map lesson, but we'll use that as a bedtime story/family discussion lesson.


Delaney wanted in on the action, so when Lilli finished her Science for the day, we read Delaney's alphatbet book and sang the ABC song. I think she liked it.




Lilli LOVES Math, but apparently hates copywork/writing. In her Horizon's Math workbook, she had to write numbers in a bunch of different ways (copy work, number lines, fill in the blanks, etc) and she got sick of all the writing. UGH!




I love Handwriting without Tears. It turns everything into a fun game.


Doing some copywork from her reading assignment. She's way ahead of the books for the reading assignments so I'll have to come up with something different.



Art....a "finish the picture" project. I cut a picture of a llama out of a magazine and pasted it to a piece of paper. She had to finish the llama and draw the background. She liked it!



That's all the pictures for today, but as you can see, she has actually started school. :o)

Ready to start!

Not that we ever really stopped learning, but school officially starts in our house on Monday. Lilli is excited. She keeps looking at her books asking when we can start. I'm really excited about using Sonlight this year. Hopefully I still like it at the end of the year. :o)

I do still have to hang Lilli's map, timeline, and get a globe.

Here is the room. The easel is on the left, then Lilli's books, the desk, the drawers with math manipulatives, science experiment supplies, and art supplies. In the corner is the turtle tank and the hamster cage.