School is about ready to start

Back to School Time!!!! Our homeschool co-op starts back on September 9th, but we have already started the homeschool year. Lily was just too excited about learning for us to wait. I love that about homeschooling. We can start whenever she is ready and we can take breaks when needed. Due to co-op, we needed a beautiful new backpack. Lily found this monkey one at target and loved it. We then had Poshy Tots Boutique put her name on it. Lily loves it sooo much!! Today the girls tried on their back to school oufits. Don't they look pretty!!

Lily is so proud to finally be a Kindergartner...even though all of her work is first grade level.

This year, Lily's favorite subject is history. She is working on Alpha Omega's first grade history. There is a different book for her to study each month. The first month is all about herself and her friends and her faith. She loved it so we went through it twice as fast as I had planned. So we are already starting the second months book. It is all on different methods of communication.

She reads all of the lessons and then completes the activities. There are also three quizes in each book and one final test. Lily loves being tested! ;)

My favorite subject to teach is bible. She has two devotionals. One of them we just finished and it was so perfect for her age. This next one is just for girls and I hope that it is perfect. We will be finishing the first one soon.

When teaching Lily her bible lessons, I also want to do activities each week that teach her about generosity and giving so we will be looking for ways to bless people around us. I think that is so important for her to learn.

We are also learning about Paul and his journey. Here is a map of his travels and Lily has been practicing reading the names of the cities. That is not easy, even for me. lol.

The last thing that I will share here is just a little bit of Lily's writing and journaling. We do writing every day. Some days we work on getting the letters properly made, but other days, I let her just free write about whatever she has done lately. I try not to be too picky with spelling and such because I want her to learn to try to spell on her own and to have initiative.

That first writing was about her fondue party and the second one is about riding her bike. I am so proud of her already. She is doing great!!

I left off reading and math and Valerie's work from this blog so I will add those soon. :)