First Week of School!!!

I am calling it a dry run, so to speak. We are waiting on his math curriculum to arrive. The K level stuff was too easy for him, so I had to order First Grade level. While Caden is not super advanced in that area, he is beginning addition and subtraction which this curriculum did not cover for the Kindergarden year. It's crazy to think that I can move at his pace and skip the busy work once he's mastered a concept.

Doodoodoodoo (twilight zone music).

Handwriting bored him, but the Box Car Children, Bible Stories,

Verse Memorization and Science stuff were very exciting.

AND he napped for 2 hours the first day of school. He NEVER naps...

I guess we really exercised his brain!

Caden Memorized

Romans 3:23-24

this week:

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely

by his grace, through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

We learned about the world's first people. We studied their culture, clothing, food they ate and where they lived. Caden made a necklace with an arrowhead and bear claws like the mighty men from these ancient tribes. We also learned about an African man named Hosi who learned to read, a very rare thing where he lived. He came back to his tribe as a story teller in their village gathering place called the onjango. Hosi taught them about Suku. Suku is God who is the creator of all things. This God loved them and protected them. And through stories about men like Abraham, David and Jesus the village came to love and trust in Suku and no longer lived in fear of evil spirits.

Caden's tough man necklace

He will be learning about frogs over the next month so we surprised Caden and got him two African dwarf frogs. Their names are Piglet and Fighty. They are a whopping 1 1/2 inches long!

This week we worked on months of the year. Caden and I worked on our August calendar and we also skipped rope to memorize the months. He got up to two years and I was able to do four- I've still got it! We also worked on understanding time concepts. What two weeks looks and feels like. We also talked about how many days are in each month. And what a schedule looks like for gymnastics. He really seems to be getting these concepts which is neat to see things clicking.

This is Caden with his buddy and fellow homeschooler, Matthew...

more adventures with him are sure to follow!