Our First week of school in Review.

Adjusting to a new school year can be rough! But I think we did good. All of our pacing guides have us as aiming to complete lesson 1-3, and we completed 1-5 because it made sense with the flow of the course, but also to get in the swing of things. We tried a little variation, this is the first time I've taught 2 different age groups. I tried teaching each kid individually with with the other kid playing with the littles, but this doesn't work as well as you'd hope. So far it actually works better to just sit in the middle of them and work with both of them. M and B play at our feet, and sometimes help.
Thursday was the day we picked for Library, and we found a PE for home school class at the local community center. It starts the first week in September but we went to get signed up, and since we had early voting there, I went ahead and took the kids to vote with me.

As part of the first science lesson for C it suggested going for a nature walk to practice observation, H5's lessons for the week also tied in (Scientific Method ) so on Sunday we all together went for a nature walk, observed, and gathered samples to draw and examine.

Because of the location of this park, and it's historical significance we also tied in to Florida History for H5.  It was a great first week, I am looking forward to a great second week too.