First Day of School 2008

Well, ready or not, here we go!!! The girls have officially begun 1st and 3rd grades. Wow...that makes me really old (nevermind that we just sent Tony off to his Soph year at U of M)!

For those of you who have an interest (sorry to those who don't), this is what the girls are studying this year:

Math: Erin, Horizons, Grade 2
Alana, Abeka, Grade 3

Spelling, Handwriting, Both

Language, Both

Latin, Alana

History, Story of the World, Both

Science, Abeka 3

After reading "The Well-Trained Mind," I've decided to try my hand at the Classical Method of homeschooling. Basically, what sets it apart from other methods is that they study Latin (which may be dead, but can have a huge affect on their ability to master not only English, but other languages as well) and in history, we begin at the beginning. Normally, in Elementary school, they would have "social studies" and start first in the child's community, then state, then country, etc. We are starting the "story" of our history at the beginning. This week, we're talking about how the people 10,000 years ago were nomads, and then began farming in the Fertile Crescent. And they built walls around their villages and cities...like Jericho.

Anyway, hopefully I've organized myself enough to keep my head above water...at least for a while!

These are pictures of the girls on Tuesday, our first day of school, in front of their school (that would be our house!)
(Yes, Alana looks a bit funny...she has a bad cold and her sinuses are horendous!)
And with Colin (we've been taking a lot of pics of him lately).