We have had another great first part of our school year. She is learning so much, and reading has been my favorite thing to watch her learn! Even though we don't have actually tests for her to do each week I create my own spelling tests and math tests and she is so funny about taking her tests. She gets extremely nervous and has to get every one right or she gets to upset. I love that she wants to do her very best even for me, her plain old mom! She loves learning about science as well, and asks a lot of questions. One thing we have done this year is use our Fridays as our "home-ec" class. We bake, do our music lessons, crafts and we work on sewing projects together. We enjoy our easy Fridays and she loves not having a ton of actual school work to do.
I honestly love homeschooling, but it has also been incredibly hard this year with the amount of sessions I had this this year. Pretty much this past end of summer/fall and early winter consisted of us waking up and doing school in the morning, then we would eat and put Tucker down for his nap and then I would head upstairs and literally edit until Tyler would get home from work. I would come down just enough to get supper fixed and then clean it up and then I would head back upstairs to finish editing and Tyler would put the kids to bed. He pretty much did all of the laundry and dishes for a few months. I felt like I had no time with kiddos and school just happened.
So Tyler and I have both decided that if we continue doing this next year, something will have to change in order to have things work a little smoother. I really do love this journey that we have started and there are some days that I dread getting out of bed and beginning the day knowing we have to squeeze school in on top of all the daily things we have to get done. But I have never regretted it and I absolutely love seeing our daughter read on her own and learn new things and know that I had a part of that! And we both love how we are able to incorporate Christ in her schooling every day!
Her First Grade Pictures
This is one of my very favorite pictures of her!!! I absolutely love
her missing front teeth and her blonde hair with that blue dress:)
Praying with daddy before school and then releasing her balloon up to Jesus.
School shopping, she loves picking out her own supplies and picking out a few clothes on her own!
Ya, we have a little too much fun shopping:)
Watching the eclipse
Their first day of Co-Op
Co-Op pictures
Love our Breath Of Life co-op group
Fall Party
Thanksgiving Feast
She was so nervous about this test, and she practiced so much for it!
Dissecting a deer heart
She has done a lot of baking this year for school. She is making applesauce in this picture.
Field trip 1-Fort Wayne Zoo
For their art project before our zoo trip they picked their favorite
zoo animals and created it with their hands. Tenlee of course picked a giraffe!
Field trip 2-Ligonier Fire Station
Field Trip 3-Merry Lea Center
Field Trip 4-Live Nativity in Columbia City
