Week 1

  Well, we've officially started back to school. We've started a brand new school year and a brand new way of doing school.
  This week we started by learning about the Fruit of the Spirit, we are starting with love. We are also using the Magic School Bus for science. For the first week we learned about ants. How they work together as a team, and how their bodies are formed. Tater and I are learning/reading/discovering the American Girl series. For this first 6 weeks we are studying Kaya. She is a Native American, Nez Perce girl. So we are getting to experience a brand new culture. In Language Arts, Jr Bug is reviewing his letters for the first few weeks of school. Then we are going to move on to making and reading words. Tater is working on using Rod and Staff curriculum. And in math, both of the kiddos did a review for the first week.
  We have had a busy week and we are moving forward at a fast pace. So, I'll show you some pics from our first week.

Tater's American Girl binder and her recreating the story of the Nez Perce people. 

Jr Bug doing "fishy" math. 

Writing his letter A.

Building her ant. Attaching the legs to the thorax. 

Showing off her ant that she made. 

Working on building his ant. 

Showing off his ant that he made 

Playing with her ant. 

As you can see Jr Bug is learning how to write his numbers. He's doing pretty well. 

Both kids made an ant hill with oats and black beans. 

Letter writing. 

Ant worksheets for both kiddos. 

Letter A sensory worksheet.

Since we are learning about Kaya for our AG series, we made a Kaya paper doll and a teepee for her doll. 

As big sister is working on her lessons, Jr Bug is playing letter factory".

As a part of our Fruit of the Spirit lessons the kids are learning Galatians 5:22-23.

My babies are required to update our calendar, our weather and recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day that we have school. Here's a picture of them doing that. 

Watching the Magic School Bus Gets Ants in its Pants. 

Since we were learning about ants we made our own ant farm. 

Jr Bug working on his numbers. 

Tater working on her math. 

See, I told you a busy week was had last week. And that was the first week of school. It's only going to get busier from here. Keep up and hold on because our first week is done and our second week is on deck.