Friday, September 4, 2015

Day 1 & "Classroom" Tour

Josiah's official 1st day of 5th grade was on September 2, 2015.  


In typical Josiah and Becky fashion, we started our school day "late" in the day vs. early.  We started at 11:45 am.  Now for you naysayers and Type A personalities, no worries, we will be starting a normal school schedule after Labor Day.  But for this week, I followed the advice of other home schooling moms and we've enjoyed half days to get us back into the groove of learning.

We had a super, first day together!  We both set academic and personal goals, enjoyed devotional time outside under our big maple tree, saw a hummingbird at our bird feeder, created a prayer bucket, took Max for a walk (PE), played a math game together and I taught Josiah the ins and outs of interactive notebooks (or also sometimes called lap booking or note booking).   Overall, we spent 4.5 hours learning, which included math, vocabulary, grammar and writing.  

Queue the highlight reel-- Josiah will share a bit more about our home school room and his first day highlights.  If the PLAY button doesn't work, just click here:  Josiah's Home School Room Tour

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5 comments:

  1. This was so fun to read and watch. Thanks for sharing, Becky! Good luck!! :-) Steph N.

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    1. Thank you for your comment! We are really happy and I'm pleased we are off to a good, solid start!

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  2. We're so excited to read about your new school adventures!!!!

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  3. I am so excited for you and Josiah to learn together! I'm also happy that your family has this special time together. We miss you, Rob and Josiah so very much!

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