Today Noah started his first day of kindergarten......at home. I am going to be his teacher and I am really excited!! Probably more excited than him because I have all the ideas for what I envision as "fun school" in my head. I am a little nervous since I've never done this before, kind of comes along with unchartered waters in life, but I feel led to do it, so we are gonna follow that lead and have some learning fun!
So our school time is during Ava Mae's nap in the morning. Today we started this really neat little curriculum called "Within These Pages." The whole lesson plan is based around one book. Our first book adventure is about bees. We read the book, "The Very Greedy Bee" and talked about what bees eat to make honey. Then I got my honey pot, (I loooove me some honey, so I have a cute beehive shaped cookie jar filled with honey) and we all ate a little spoon of honey. This wasn't in the lesson plan, just an impromptu idea I had. :) I think I might be good at this teacher thing. Then we did the letter "B" and Noah practiced writing upper and lowercase "B" and Eli scribbled on his manuscript paper and said "I'm done." lol Then we took a break to go jump on the trampoline. While we were outside, we went over to the honeysuckle bush and saw an actual bee eating nectar!! Woo hoo, how awesome, the living example right in front of our eyes. Then I picked some flowers and Noah tasted the nectar. Eli said, "Mom, I not eat that yucky stuff." lol
Then we came back in and did a few sheets out of a Sesame Street Math book. That was our sitting lesson time for Day 1. I wanted to keep it short and sweet so he would look forward to school tomorrow. :)
We ate lunch and then went outside to ride bicycles. I think we'll be getting lots of P.E. credits this year!!
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