God's Word is a Treasure

Week 1 "God's Word is a Treasure"
Day 1

We started our first day of school by going on a treasure hunt. Evie hunted throughout the house for the first 'X' {this is the letter of the week} and found her first and most important treasure, her Jesus Storybook Bible!

Next she went searching for several more treasures consisting of school supplies, magnifying glass, and flashlight. We made a pair of binoculars from a paper towel roll, tape, and a string.

We also had music time where we sang song about our theme. One song is a hyme: Wonderful Words of Life, a Seeds Family Worship song: Word of the Lord, and a Sunday school song: the B-I-B-L-E and we will sing those all week.

Evie also decorated the front of what will be her alphabet book throughout the year. She colored and glued letters to the cover.

And lastly, we read Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? {checked out from the library!} and after reading we talked about what clothing we wear for different weather.

And I threw in my own activity of using cooked spaghetti noodles to make the letter 'X' and rectangles. Of course they made a yummy snack too!

It was a fun first day and not nearly as stressful or chaotic as I thought it might be. Evie was really excited to tell daddy all about what she learned and did.

Caleb was doing his own kind of school with Brandon called Potty Training! Fun stuff...

God's Little Explorers

We started preschool this week! I know it's not in line with any traditional school year, but I guess that's one great thing about doing homeschool. We can start/stop/take breaks when we want to!!

I came across this mom-made, FREE preschool curriculum through Pinterest called God's Little Explorers and just reading through the lessons I love it!! {Can't even beat how perfect the name is for our blog.} It's all learning through doing and I think that's perfect for this age group.

We spend 45 min to an hour a day, 4-5 days a week and that's it! Unless we want to do more then we can, she gives suggestions for further studying.

My plan is to chronicle our 'year' of school, mostly for fun but also to see how we grow and change in the homeschooling area.

Let the learning fun begin....

School

We have gone back and forth for school options for Little Lady. {Can't believe we are already talking about school!}

We have narrowed it down to either home schooling {I love the idea of  being the one to teach my kids and get to be apart of their learning and growing! Seeming them 'get' new concepts and over come challenges and gain confidence} or the school our church provides {having her in a positive, faith-teaching environment while giving me some extra time with the 'little' littles would be a great choice too}. They both have their pros and cons.

But they are both doable and neither have cons that are deal breakers. We just have to pick one and go with it.

So we are going to go one year at a time. Preschool is first. And that is actually an easy decision because our church's school doesn't have preschool this year, God willing, they will be starting a program next year.

I'm looking forward to starting preschool with her late this summer, I want to wait until she is 3. I'm planning on taking the whole year to work with her on it and add in materiel or take out as we see fit. It was easy for me to pick a curriculum, it is only preschool! Confession's of a Homeschool has a preschool and K4 curriculum that I really like, and it includes faith-based material as well as lesson plans to go off of. The work of putting it together is done and I can spend my time doing activities with her instead!

The curriculum is called Letter of the Week and she gives a supply list here. We need several things on the list so between now and then I'm buying a little bit at a time so it's not a huge expense all at once. The Do-a-Dot markers came yesterday so we decided to give them a try. It was pleasant experience and she gets the concept easily!

Her first Dot art project:

This was her first page. We did the E together and I helped with the others. By the time we got to the L she did it all by herself!