In Indiana, July 1st marks the start of the NEW SCHOOL YEAR. I don't even know how time went so fast to get us here, but here we are. We will be starting school today. And while I am still working on what curriculum and rhythm looks like, we are getting started with a few things.

One thing that will be different this year, is we will be walking a little bit in step with my sisters-in-law family.  And we don't know exactly what that looks like yet. Also, she's new to homeschooling like me, so we're going to take advantage of learning things together. One thing we are doing together this year is co-op which is going to be so great!

Moving along to the purpose of today's blog!

​Each week I will blog what is coming up in our week, both academically and activities. This is definitely an accountability thing. If I put it out into the internet, my follow though will be better, right?

So, anyways, this year I have actually tried to map out a bit what our day looks like. One thing that has been so hard for me is getting into good routines here at home. It's hard for ME to stay on track. AND it's been hard for me to cut back on some of our tv habits. I will say, I've worked pretty hard on cutting out electronic devices, which I have been fairly successful at. Sams behavior has been all the better for it. Now we just need to adjust how much tv we're actually watching. Like this thing does not need to be on all day.

Ok, this is what we have on deck for activities this week. It's going to be a pretty slow week:

Monday- Start our new routine.
Tuesday- Woods and Books creek play in the morning
Wednesday- Regular homeschool day
Thursday- Holiday! No school.
Friday- Regular homeschool day
Saturday- Regular homeschool day
Sunday- Church

For anything curriculum this week, we are focusing mostly on reading right. Sam is VERY VERY ready to read. So, my goal is to ramp up reading times. Later this week I will post what our daily schedule looks like and give an update on how well I'm following through. Eventually we will be adding in other subjects.

Reading list:
Proverbs- 1 chapter each morning at breakfast
Winnie the Pooh- Finish at least 3 chapters
Bob Books- Officially move past the first 5 books. Sam has struggled with remembering certain key words, such as the word and. It's been a month or so since we last read any of these books. So, I am hoping some of these reading word issues have resolved themselves.

Bible memory:
Deuteronomy. 6:5

Thats it for now friends! Have a lovely week!

Lori

To Know God and To Make Him Known

Happy Tuesday Friends!

Co-op is over for the year but we will continue on with some learning. Because of the laid back approach I take with Samuel we sort of never stop with the school stuff. 

This week are continuing to work on the sight words at, it, and, has, what, and why. I have to rotate the words out longer for Samuel to help keep his attention. And we have to circle back a lot to help make sure he really has learned something versus just memorized it. The word has has been an exceptionally hard for him to remember.

Speech therapy continues on this week. The are continuing to work on eye contact and taking turns and all the speech that goes into that.

For reading, we will read the next chapters of our Bible and our read aloud book, Winne the Pooh. For Winnie the Pooh, I'd like to read one chapter a week but that is definitely not what we have been doing.

Lastly, we will continue to spend a lot of time just playing. Samuel got over a fear of worms yesterday. He was super proud to show me wormy!

Lori

To know God and to make Him known