Garrett and I started American history. We are so excited about this! We are reading biographies and working our way through important events and people, starting with Columbus.
Riley and Cole are starting Astronomy, which is going to be so much fun with the Apologia book. Lots of cool experiments and projects in there! They are also doing Lentil from Five in a Row this week.
Tyler started some "How stuff works" type science and was typing away on his computer about some discoveries he made. He is also reading a George Washington Carver biography and doing a Beyond Five in a Row unit with that.
We are all going to be doing "Around the World" together this year. We are starting with Italy, and looked at some travel books today. Tomorrow we will explore the life of Leonardo Da Vinci. We will also be reading some Michelangelo and Galileo biographies, doing some authentic Italian cooking, and studying Italian art, history, and architecture. Stay tuned for more on Italy!
And, as always, we did our diet Coke/Mentos experiment. It has become tradition to do this every year on the first day. I guess it's kinda like our version of first day fireworks or something. Honestly, I don't see the getting-doused-with-Diet-Coke thing wearing out anytime soon. Being in the middle of a huge mess just never goes out of style for these particular kids. We did it 6 times.
We don't gots to wear no shirts or shoes in our homeschool. Ain't no dress code here.
Here's what Cole wrote in his journal today. He's right. We do always "Coke experiment."
Grammy and Grandpa had a cookie made to ring in the new school year...
And because clearly we are fans of the traditions, we ended our day by meeting David at Incredible Pizza. Just like our very first year. And second year. And third year.
I seriously can not even believe I get to do this with these kids. I am so very blessed.
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6 comments:
What a fabulous first day, Deleise! Julie in AZ
What a fantastic first day! I am totally stealing your mentos and coke idea. Justin has been wanting to do this forever and I bought my "supplies" the other day. What a fun surprise for him and Kaden!
So fun! I wish I could send my kids for you to homeschool:)
Kristi
Love it! Traditions are great. What memories!
If you want to correspond with our friends in Italy, we can give you contact info. We also have about 1000 pictures/videos. Hope your Italian cooking is better than what we ate.
It will be so fun seeing the coke experiment pictures even when they're teens! I know...you don't want to think about that. Today as I was taking J's first day pic, I had that same thought about the no shirts, no shoes thing. A shirt and shoe rule would not fly in this homeschool!
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