Samuel’s Baptism

Samuel accepted Christ as his Savior about a month ago during VBS week.  He was so excited to be getting baptized by Pastor Mark!

First Grade – Week 1

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.

Uncle Jon’s Birthday

Uncle Jon, Aunt Kristin, and Kristin’s mom, Cookie, came to visit for a few days and to celebrate Uncle Jon’s birthday.  Grandma and Gramps came down as well and we had a great time.

Samuel wanted to take them to Metcalf Bottoms, so we went there in the morning and took hot dogs for a cook out.

Samuel all ready to go

Gramps, Cookie, and Aunt Kristin watching from a distance while the rest of us had fun in the water.  They refused to get in, saying the water was too cold.  Wimps!

Jon jumping off the rock

Adam kissing crawdads…not sure why

gramps finally got brave enough to wade a little bit

The cold didn’t seem to bother Samuel

After we left Metcalf Bottoms, we went home and cleaned up.  Then we did a little shopping at the outlet malls and went to dinner at Damon’s.  After that, Jon wanted to go to The Track and ride a few go-carts before going home for cake.

He hides his age well…

Oh wait, that’s more like it!