We finished our first week of first grade this week. So far, we are both really enjoying Sonlight and are both looking forward to having a great year.
This week we…
Started reading through the Bible using Egermeier’s Bible Story Book…
Started memorizing Romans 3:23 – All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. One thing I’m really excited about this year is that Samuel is going to learn a verse for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet, and by the end of the year will have to recite them all in succession…
Learned about the first people – what they wore, how they lived, what they ate, how they traveled. One thing I added to Sonlight, is a history notebook. I found these composition books at walmart and each day I have Samuel tell me one thing he learned, I write it down, and then he draws a picture to go with it. Evenutally, I’ll make him start writing his own sentence, but I wanted to start slow.
Started reading The Boxcar Children…
Learned about the seasons in science and also did an experiment to show how air makes things move…
We are also using SL LA & Readers 1 which involves spelling, reading, explode the code, handwriting, and weekly creative writing assignments. I probably won’t mention that much on here because it is basically just doing the next thing. Nothing exciting to record. But, if Samuel has a particularly great writing assignment, I’ll probably include it.
