First Day

Well, our first day of lessons has come and gone and it went very well. We went out for breakfast at the Bagel Mill and got all of our lessons done by 12:30. Then we headed to Twinkle Town for lunch, a round of mini golf and ice cream. After that I decided to go grocery shopping so that we wouldn't keep eating out.The sunshine was plentiful and begged us to be outside so we were.

The mini cubicles came in very handy. I caught Evelyn practicing her sign language alphabet in between dictation sentences while she waited for her brother to be done. (That can take some time!) Quinn utilized the writing checklist after he was done his writing to find out that he had forgotten all of his punctuation and most of his capitalization BUT had in fact used his very best handwriting. He was able to fix everything on his own without me telling him. What a spectacular feeling!

We did our first key word outline on Benedictine Monks after reading our section in CHOW. I realized to my amazement that Sonlight provides little summations of the readings in the notes section and we did our outline from that. Coming up with three key words per sentence proved to be pretty simple for both kids and by the end they wanted to do another! They were able to tell back the information after with no problems and even added their own articulation. Something tells me Quinn won't be so motivated at the end of the week when we get to write up the paper but I am pleased with the excitement level today.

CBS homework was a lot easier with the new handy dandy booklets that they put the lessons in. I am very excited about this change. They even added a splash of color.

Our new read aloud Red Sails to Capri is even pretty exciting already. We read the first chapter and then Quinn finished reading the book on his own.

We kept math short an sweet so as not to ruin the day completely. I was relieved to see that Quinn still remembered his times tables despite the longer than usual break.

Overall I have declared today to be a success!