Our First Day

First Day

The two oldest headed back to school today and we started some review in our home school adventure.  First learning experience is to start home school once the two oldest are in school full day.  It is a crazy two days of running them back and forth and trying to get review in without interruptions.  Even with the craziness we had a good start to this new experience.

Wonder Wall:  

I saw this on Pinterest and loved the idea.  http://nurturestore.co.uk/wonder-wall   It is perfect to keep track of teachable moments that otherwise we might not remember to go back and research.

This was a fun activity to start with.  This allowed Lawrence to be hands on with his learning choices.  This also was good for his gross and fine motor skills.  It was big whole body movements while laying/painting our bricks in a pattern on our wall.

We added our first note to our wall.  It is to research Birch trees and the woods and forests.

Lawrence has a couple fine motor skill issues so I am making sure our activities are hands on and fun as we build up his strength in these areas.  

Overall it was a pretty good day of review and starting some of our regular curriculum work.  We started our Handwriting without Tears program, http://www.hwtears.com/hwt    We reviewed our math facts, started our reading log and book reports.   Nightly reading has also made its way back into our routine.  

Day 1 down and only 179 more to go ... LOL.   I will continue to blog our experience over the next couple of days and weeks.  Friday our math programs makes its first appearance and our reading/language arts program starts on Monday.  We will be building and transition into our home school days through out the month of September.