Getting the Hang of It

Today is day 3 and homeschool is going more smoothly.  

Bible is going well.  The kids are memorizing John 3:16.  They made posters yesterday, so today I am just randomly asking them to recite it.  Our reading assignment was out of the book "God Speaks Numanggang" by David Hazell.  It was interesting to learn how the Hynum family moved to a village where they did not even know the language.  They had to learn the language then create an alphabet because the Numanggang people had never written their language down.  Then they had to teach the villagers how to read and write their language before they even started the translation process.  Wow, what dedication!  (And to think I complain when my kids do not listen to me.)  We also have praise and worship time.

After handwriting we break up and go our separate ways.  They rotate every 15 minutes between spelling, math drills (on the computer), and phonic (with the tape player) with my Super Hero having center time.  Today I heard my President actually say he loved math drills!  This kid has always hated math, always.  I am so encouraged that by this because I still sometimes have lingering doubts wondering if we did the right things by taking them out of public school. (I know this is just the devil trying to steal my joy!)

Then my Fairy joins her little brother and the two older kids rotate between Spanish (on the computer) and language arts.  This is the most chaotic part of the day right now because my Fairy and Super hero will not leave me alone while I am trying to teach language arts.

Next is Math!  I love Math-U-See and so far the kids do too, but here again my Super Hero is not compliant.  I am hoping to do more with him next week but I just have not found the time this week being as we are constantly behind and my goal is to be done by the time my husband comes home.

We eat lunch at some point.

Today science will be was with daddy outside so next we did health.  My mom measured the kids and we wrote it down on their sheet.

Last we read their geography assignment and my President looked up and located places using the illustrated atlas.

Granma worked with my Super Hero and made words with the letter crackers and shapes on paper.

We also shucked and canned corn today with my mom or Granma to the kids. YUM!

After Daddy got home we all went outside and measured off a 1 yard x 1 yard area and looked for animals, plants, etc in that area. Bugs, worms, crickets, mosquitoes, dead leaves, grass, sticks, ants, many other things were what we found.  We all had a great time.  My Fairy said she couldn't wait til the next science class!  Afterwards they each sketched one things they had found in their area.

All in all a productive day.  We even finished a whole hour earlier than yesterday, too!