Lighting the Fire: First Day Photos

Our life in books

This is our eigth year of homeschooling and I finally got around to blogging about our adventures a few years ago.

I love the path that God has us on.

We get to enjoy the lightbulb moments in educating our children and have quite a few of them ourselves.

We are starting Exploration to 1850's this school year, 2012-2013 using My Father's World curriculum.

In the past, we have enjoyed the 'MFW Adventures' and 'Exploring Countries and Cultures', and 'Creation to the Greeks',

Rome to the Reformation,

Exploration to the 1850's and NOW.........

1850's to MODERN TIMES !!

Below is the week by week of lessons for this year if you'd like to start at the beginning.

There is also a handy LABELS area that you can peek through to find a specific lesson.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

First Day Photos

It's Official - we have begun the 2011-2012 homeschool year. I have 4 students this year. A fifth grader, a third-grader, a first-grader and a pre-K student. It's a hoot really. I would never have imagined myself here 6 years ago but here we are indeed!

They jumped right in with the routine which I am so thankful for. We start school right after breakfast and go until just after lunch which makes for about a 4 1/2 hour school day. We also started a new season of our responsibility chart. The kids earn tickets for their completed chores, responsibilities throughout the week and they can 'cash' them in for extra activities, prizes or save them for something bigger like a date with Mom or Dad. So far, we have two dates on the calendar and one saving for a sleepover.