Our First Day!


Hello everyone, we started the first official day in our learning journey. I implemented my new plan to tackle spelling by introducing the ‘At' family. 

As I sat down with the girls they automatically reached for paper, fair enough it was clearly going to be a spelling and handwriting practice combo session. The girls quickly caught on to the pattern and spelt nine words easily. Sophia then made a sentence using several ‘At' words. She found the session really easy once she could apply the logic.

We also started our ‘On the farm’ project which will hopefully continue all year through. I am following a set of DeAgostini ‘My animal family' books, which corresponds to a farm set collection. This week’s book was on cows. 

The girls were very enthusiastic, I started by reading the first two pages of the book to them whilst they were holding the cows from the farm set. They then watched YouTube videos which reflected what we had read and talked about. Sophia fell in love with a nosy cow who was sniffing the camera and was petting it. She then ran to draw a picture depicting what she had learnt. 


The girls also read a few pages from their reading books and practiced some more handwriting. Sophia did a lot of drawings whilst Kira did some pages from her current English work book. 

They also completed thirty mental math questions. The afternoon was spent free time, playing kitchen role play and in their ball pit before bedtime routine took place. Xander played at feeding dolls with the pretend food, spent time on his ipad, read a book on colours, and enjoyed garden time. The girls ended the day with a trip out blackberry picking with their dad which they loved.


Kira told me, ‘It's been a best day ever’. This is a paraphrase from my girls current favourite YouTube artist 'A for Adley'. It is currently Kiras form of highest praise, as you have to work hard to earn her approval, which she does not give lightly. So I'll take it for the first day back. 

Sophia drew me this picture to show her appreciation of the day. This is what makes homeschooling special and worthwhile, and makes my heart sing.

I hope you all are having a great day as we did, and that fellow home ed parents have an awesome first day back into their learning journey whenever that may be. 

          


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