School Starts September 4th

I’m so excited for school to start! It has been
constantly occupying my thoughts for weeks. I was really blessed to find the 1st grade curriculum for My Father’s World on a home school classifieds web page for less than half the price. Last year, I was unable to afford the deluxe set with all the extra curricular activities, so I ended up trying to do them my self with only marginal luck (If you remember, our caterpillars never made a cocoon and we couldn’t find any ants in December). But this year, because I saved on the curriculum, I was able to find all the extra parts for the deluxe curriculum on Amazon.com. This is going to be a really fun year.
Most of the schools in our area are starting in early August, but we are giving ourselves a full 4 months of summer. It works out well, because, just like last year, our curriculum is only 160 days. That gives us plenty of time to finish by May including holidays. We’ve used our 4 months of summer well, though. Besides the Reading Reflex, which has been a super fun and easy way for the kids to learn phonograms, we have also gone to several movies in the park, cultivated an ant farm (successfully!), hiked and caught frogs at Willow Lake, hiked and done more bird watching (we saw a bald eagle!) at Lynx Lake, hiked up the trail at Humphrey’s Peak while Daddy got his surgery, took care of Daddy while he was incapacitated, attended Vacation Bible School at Robert Road Baptist Church where the theme was “Outrigger
Island”. They even taught us some Hawaiian — wiki wiki means quickly. And that is how we should choose to follow Jesus — wiki wiki! We took swimming lessons, read over 100 books from the library, got to know cousin Emmy, and added regularly to our blogs. Ardara and Huyler’s artistic talents continued to blossom. Huyler has completely conquered his articulation problem. And finally, all of us were able to say goodbye to Grandpa John before he moved to Heaven. It has been a full summer and we are thankful for all of it. Now, lets get schooling!