Every day a new start

Okay, so I did not post yesterday or the day before, but here I am today.  Wednesday was a homeschool day away from home.  Esther went to help Celia with babysitting and the boys and I went to Centralia to put up the sign at the Cultural Building for the Bell Choir concert and then went to run at Foundation Park.  Fun!!  They did math in the morning so all in all they have done 5 lessons this week.  We made it through the first week of Writing with Ease, not stressing memorization as much as last year because it made it not fun.  Made it through the first lesson in Latin and so far, so good.  Taking it slower and easier.  Have not heard from Compass Classroom about Esther's Latin.  During worship we chose hymns this week, recited commandments 1-3, worked on psalm 84.  Next week, start the Bible readings and Questions begun last year.  Figure out specific hymns to learn.  Really neat tonight during prayer time Ruth chose Let Our Gladness Have No End to sing.  Have not sung that in YEARS but she remembered when we worked on it before I even taught 1st and 2nd grade at Hoffman.  Amazing the things they remember.  After she jarred my memory, I remembered it too.  Thursday I got called in to work at the library, so the kids did some stuff on their own.  Today we started again.  Boys are cooking on spelling.  Need to start reading a book with them.

Hibiscus

Hibiscus.  Beautiful hibiscus.

Waiting so long for you to finally open.  

Watching the buds.  

Maybe tomorrow.  

No, not yet.

Then finally, so huge, so vibrant.

And every day, another.

Now, I see them.

Not so lovely. 

The first one.

The best.

First Days of School

Thank you, Dwane Thomas, for giving me this idea of blogging about what I want to remember.  I have been trying for four years to keep a record of what we do every day in homeschool.  I usually last for a month, and then pitch it.  Let's see how I do this year.
Yesterday, August 10th, 2015, was our first day of school  This is a record of what we did today and yesterday.  Gideon and Josiah each did Lesson 1 in Teaching Textbooks 7 and Esther did Lessons 1 and 2 in Algebra 1 (Teaching Textbooks)  Esther worked on Unit #18 in Analytical Grammar which has three worksheets and a test this week.  Esther is not reading a book on her own.  Josiah is listening to Eldest (hopefully following along) and reading My Side of the Mountain.  I am reading "Sh, we're writing the Constitution" by Jean Fritz during lunch time.  Gideon is listening to Eragon and reading Tin Tin in America.  Gideon and Josiah and I are working on Week 1 in Winston Grammar - identifying articles and nouns - proving to be more frustrating for the boys as they think they should "know" this.  Explode the Code Book 7 Lesson #1 ci, ce, cy.  Did the correlating Phonics Pathways page today.  Writing with Ease Week 1 Day 1 was yesterday.  Day 2 today.  Hard start but we are persevering.  We are working on Lesson #1 in Latin ( boys and I ) Did 30 minutes each day.  We are listening to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets at night.  We sang Christ be My Leader on Monday, Lamb of God today.  Working on memorizing the first three commandments and their meanings.  Started Psalm 84.  Esther is working on Module #1 in Exploring Creation with Physical Science.  She did an experiment yesterday.  I bought a guide through Rainbow Resource that maps out the days for you.  Working on Vocabulary on Vocabahead.com.  Everyone does 10 minutes.
Started Spelling Power with the boys today.  Ask Mark about starting it with Esther.  Esther will start Latin again when I receive work from Visual Latin.  Typing Web to start soon.  Vision Therapy with me yesterday, on the computer today.  Watched Miss Potter yesterday.  Great movie about Beatrix Potter.  Sad.