Today will be our first day to start formal academics and delve into themes and units for the year. Because we are learning-oriented and tend towards the unschooling philosophy, our whole family learns all the time about many different things, and we gravitate towards things that have educational (particularly historical) significance.
Today, we will begin a character unit study on obedience using the Konos curriculum. Throughout that study, we'll be learning about light, lighthouses, authority, kings and queens, printing, candlemaking, and more.
Today, we will lay the groundwork for the unit study. We'll begin copying verses and memorizing poetry. We'll begin practicing our multiplication tables. We'll begin timing each other to see how fast we can come when called. We'll play Mother May I and Simon Says.
Sweetheart will continue her reading lessons (she's doing so well!) and she is also doing pages from a workbooks called God's Colorful World and God's Animal Alphabet. I'm normally not into workbooks, but Sweetheart really is, and she asks me daily "what she can do," looking for ideas to feed her mind. Maybe she and I can make a book called, "What Can I Do Today?" to which she can refer when she's bored.
Yesterday, Monet asked when we were starting lessons. He said, "I think I'll do really great with lessons this year." :-) I think he will, too.
Here's to balanced learning...
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