As I said in yesterday's post, I wasn't much in the mood to begin school this year. But, thankfully, I had already had our day planned for over 3 weeks, and sometimes you just have to MAKE yourself do what needs to be done.
Our day began a little later than I like, about 10 before we started, which was fine, since I didn't have much actual WORK planned. Since C's school year usually starts in late winter/early spring, she was already partially through 3 of her subjects. She had 1 new set of books....Hewitt Lightning Literature for 7th grade, which I introduced to her, and we did the first day's assignment. I have also TEMPORARILY switched C's math from BJU Fundamentals of Math (which she had finished 35% of) to Life of Fred math. We are going to try Life of Fred on a trial basis, and I am keeping the BJU Math in reserve to go back to at any time. Life of Fred Math is COMPLETELY different than any other math program I've ever seen or heard of, but both C and I liked it---she did the first 2 lessons. C also did the next lesson in her World Studies. We didn't do formal science yesterday.
E had also already been working in some of her books, so there were 3 we didn't even go through....Horizon's math 3, McRuffy science 3, and her Cursive writing book. As you know, she finished learning all her cursive letters, and now will simply have 1 copywork sentence daily. New to E was Abeka Health 3, Abeka social studies 3, R&S Spelling 3, and R&S English 3. We went through all of these, and she did the first lesson in English. I doubt you have ever SEEN anyone so thrilled to have a "real" textbook" and her own spiral notebook as my little E. She is used to workbook-type materials, and has never had a textbook that she can not write in, and must use separate paper, and she couldn't be more excited about it! LOL
Together the girls and I are reading aloud Joy Hakim's "History of US", which is a 10 volume set, so I doubt we are able to get through it in only one year, but we began it yesterday. We are hoping within the next year to begin being able to do some extensive traveling around the country, so we decided we wanted to read United states History together to learn more about WHERE we will be going.
After school, I gave the girls their "First Day of School" giftbags, which they, of course, were surprised by, and loved. In the afternoon we went to the park for a couple of hours. God blessed us with such BEAUTIFUL weather to be outside and enjoy, and we only left because we were all extremely hungry. LOL
I had several more BIG blessings throughout the day yesterday, some good news for my family and our future. When we got home and were waiting for hot water for C's bath, the girls and I played 2 games of "Spell Up Count Down", so we ended up just having a wonderful day from start to finish.
I pray such an auspicious first day is an harbinger of how this whole school year will go. If only ALL days could go so well, have such beautiful weather, and be so fun for the 3 of us...Thank you, Lord, for such a perfect day yesterday. : )
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