Our first week of school

I know I'm a little late posting but it has been a crazy week! We have finished up our first week with Sonlight and it's going great so far! M impressed me with everything he has picked up on already and his enthusiasm for learning. It's wonderful to hear him ask when we're going to do school every morning instead of dreading that time of day. I was floored by how quickly he picked up on his memory verse (Proverbs 4:20 NLT) this week! By the end he only needed a word or two as a prompt and he was able to recite the rest himself. It excites me that the Word is already beginning to dwell in his heart and that he's just soaking it all up like a sponge. The verse for this week is a little more complex but hopefully we'll be able to master it just as easily. 


The curriculum doesn't include Math or writing for Pre-K but I have found some excellent resources for free printable worksheets that cover things like colors, shapes, numbers/counting, same/different etc. We try to do at least one worksheet each day and so far he really seems to like them. I also bought a book (that you can use with dry erase markers) so we can begin to practice writing letters. I don't expect perfection, we'll just do them as he wants to and work on them for as long as it takes to master them. We worked on A this week and by the end he was doing a decent job, although a lot of them looked more like H's! I wasn't planning on practicing them today (dad was making lunch about that time so he didn't want the girls to eat without him!) but later on he mentioned that he wanted to practice his letters. It makes me so happy that he actually enjoys what he's doing and asks to do more work! Hopefully this attitude will stick around for a while as he gets older! 


Now on to Week 2!

Starting school in two weeks!

We finally got all our curriculum in the mail! Felt like it took forever! We had a blast opening everything and looking over all the books. Now they are all nestled on the shelf waiting till we start. After some discussion we decided to start on the 22nd of this month. That will give us plenty of time and ensure that we'll be able to take a nice break when the new baby comes. I know I'll need time to recover and we'll all need time to readjust and get some sort of schedule going. I think I'm more excited than the kids are! haha I know once we get started they're going to love it. I've reviewed the first weeks worth of lessons and it all looks to be really simple and well laid out which is going to be awesome for me since I won't have tons of time for lesson planning.

In other news, we should be finding out whether we will be having a boy or a girl on Tuesday (as long as baby lets us see!) and I can't wait. It'll be the first time I'm having a 4D ultrasound so it should be pretty exciting. I've been feeling a lot of movement lately and the other morning the baby had the hiccups which is super cute. Now I feel like I'm just twiddling my thumbs till Tuesday!