We started My Father's World 1st Grade curriculum last week! The week was fantastic and I am so happy with the curriculum I have chosen for the boys.
Here is the bulletin board I put together for the school year. It has the calendar, Hundreds chart, and the character trait we are studying.
We start our mornings off listening to a song from the Seeds Family Worship CDs. The boys love the music and this starts our day off on a positive note! Then we do the pledge and say a prayer.
Ryder fills out his calendar and hundreds chart every day.
BIBLE/HISTORY
Every month during this school year we will be focusing on a character trait from the Character First curriculum. The month of August we are focusing on Attentiveness. Monday the boys watched a nature video about White-Tailed deer and colored a picture of the deer. Every day we went over the definition of attentiveness.
Each morning we did a devotional from "My Big Book of 5-minute Devotionals." LOVE this book! We also talked about "history" and scrolls this week. The boys made their own scrolls!
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
Ryder is finishing up the last few lessons in All About Reading 2 before we move onto level 3. He also had several handwriting worksheets this week. Some of the worksheets will be made into a Handwriting Scroll in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
Ryder is finishing up the last few lessons in All About Reading 2 before we move onto level 3. He also had several handwriting worksheets this week. Some of the worksheets will be made into a Handwriting Scroll in a few weeks. Stay tuned!
MATH
Ryder finished Lesson 1 in Math Lessons for a Living Education Book 2.
Ryder finished Lesson 1 in Math Lessons for a Living Education Book 2.
SCIENCE
The topic this week was "close to the ground." We read in our Usborne Things Outdoors book and during read aloud time I read the boys books about moles and ants. They also watched a Magic School Bus video about ants!
The topic this week was "close to the ground." We read in our Usborne Things Outdoors book and during read aloud time I read the boys books about moles and ants. They also watched a Magic School Bus video about ants!
ART
This week Ryder colored Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. He loves drawing, coloring, and stickers! So I see art being one of his favorites this school year.
This week Ryder colored Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. He loves drawing, coloring, and stickers! So I see art being one of his favorites this school year.
PRESCHOOL for MERCER
Each week I am focusing on a letter for Mercer. This week was "A is for ambulance." He loved the do-a-dot pages!
Each week I am focusing on a letter for Mercer. This week was "A is for ambulance." He loved the do-a-dot pages!
He is also going to be working on tracing this year.
Here he is sorting capital and lowercase A's!
He used scissors for the first time too!
Both boys did excellent this week! They were both so excited to start school and had great attitudes! I am looking forward to Week 2!
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