We've officially begun our 16th year of home schooling and I'm posting a few highlights from our first week.
This has been a really fun week... the excitement was building for the first day of school and the kids were so happy to awaken to Schultütes waiting for them on the table! (Click here for an explanation.)
Several snacks for the week and a few fun-ish school supplies were found inside.
Crash was a bit perplexed at first, but once they were opened, he had as much fun with the empty posterboard cone as he did with the goodies!
Then he got the girls going... They thought they were being gnomes; Dad was thinking dunce caps! Too funny.
We pulled the math manipulatives out.
Once we had a bit of fun by creating cool designs, we got down to business.
While the girls were geared for buckling down to their studies, Crash got to work on a few pre-school activities I'd made ready for him, as well as a good dose of playtime.
So far he's worked with the math manipulatives...
and some of his math...
And some really cool pompom work! Here he's using tweezers to place the pompoms into muffin tins. Later in the year we'll work on sorting them by color, but for now, we'll just work on manipulating those tweezers. This was his first try, and he did a great job!
One day this week, while we had a bit of quiet time before lunch I caught Liza reading to Crash.
