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!