Explaination of our Homeschool

Okay, so I am still trying to figure out Wordpress.  I couldn't figure out how to write this description in the previous post so here's what I wanted to add.

We started a very light homeschooling book called Before Five in a Row where we would read one children's book 5 days in a row and take from it a new area of learning each day.  They absolutely loved it.  We did that consistently for about 2 months.  Lelia got a lot out of it and Sedona just hung in there for the readings but not usually the 5 minute lesson afterwards.  That's great with me.  Sedona isn't quite ready for all of this so I just let her wonder off once she's had enough.

Then, after a few weeks of very bad days with Lelia we thought that she needed some more structure in her days.  That's when we started another very light homeschooling curriculum from the website www.1plus1plus1equals1.com that's focus is mainly on Scripture.  Lelia had an enormous breakthrough the very first day we started and life around here has been so much smoother ever since.  We are so grateful for the woman who provides the learning materials from that website, completely free to any user.  Take a look at it if you are interested.

Our focus right now is just to take things at Lelia's pace.  She is only 3 and doesn't need to be formally taught right now, so we aren't.  She's loving what we are learning.  She has 2 Scripture verses memorized from the first 2 weeks and knows 2 new songs that we do each morning.  We also have some tracing for her to do while she's learning her letters.  Eventually I will be teaching her how to read.  I can't wait for that, that really excites me.  Being the one to teach my daughter to read is something I will always cherish!  Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself.  So she traces, cuts and learns numbers, all out of workbooks that she does when she asks to.  That's it these days.  It's exciting!

Starting to Homeschool

I have seen a huge improvement in Lelia's cutting since we started school 8 days ago.

Lunch with Uncle Pooya & Laura

Lisa's Baptism

A very good friend of ours was baptized on Sunday.  Check out the pics...

Mim's Jumpers

These are the jumpers that grandma Mim made for the girls for the Fall / Winter season.  We got so many compliments on them at church.  Someone even mentioned them a week later!  Thanks, Mim!

Monuments by Moonlight

One of Tom's birthday gifts was a Monuments by Moonlight tour of downtown Washington, D.C.  It was a really nice evening for Tom and I to get away for a while alone.  We drove down to Union Station, took a cab to a terrific resaurant in China Town then came back to Union Station to pick up our trolly for the tour.  It was a  beautiful night!

Apple and Spinach Picking

We went up to Larriland Farms to go apple and spinach picking on a beautiful Fall afternoon.  Mom had to climb a tree to get to the good apples, all of the good ones from the bottom had already been picked!  We all had such a good time.  The fresh, hot apple fritters covered in powdered sugar weren't bad either.



Silly September Pics

 

Build-A-Bear Gift

Here are pictures from our visits to Build-A-Bear the girls got as gifts from thier Aunt Beth in Arizona.  They had  a blast!!



Sedona's 2nd Birthday!

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Our precious Sedona turned 2 on September 16th! Here are a few of the pics.  She had a little too much help on opening her gifts as you can see.  Since then we've been seeing the very real shift to a full blown 2 year old.  Testing the boundaries and manipulating with the best of them!!  But, inspite of all of that, she's a pleasure to be around.  :)