Creation Museum

We spent a full day at the Creation Museum today.

sick day (just a normal day here)

Caleb and the rest of the family are sick and so if he had been attending regular school, he would have not gone today, but since he is schooled at home, it was just a normal day.
He continues to do Bible using "Family-Time Bible in Pictures", which the boys and I have really enjoyed. We're only about 1/3 of the way through, so we'll be using this for quite a long time. Each section has a couple questions following.
Then he does his Math U See work. Today he learned how to skip count by tens. We have gotten into a routine of doing 2 pages a day. If he gets anything wrong, I erase his answer and he reworks each problem until he gets each correct. If I notice he's not understanding something, we go back and review. He does one chapter lesson over the course of 3 days, usually.
Today we continued on with our history book, which we really like, as well. We are about 2/3 done with this book and so I'm on the outlook for what we will do after we complete it.

Nest Family Videos

We bought the Animated New Testiment Nest dvds at the homeschool convention we went to in April as part of our curriculum.
http://www.nestfamily.com/24-Animated-New-Testament-DVDs--P131384.aspx
They have been great. Today we have watched three, which we don't usually do. The ones we picked out today have to do with end times, faith in Christ, and the miracles of Jesus. We're feeling a greater urgency to be teaching our boys about these things.

Caleb got to use all of his blocks for Math U See today and he was very excited about this. After he was done with his worksheets, I let him play with the blocks, which I figure will help him continue learning.

What we accomplished today...

We started with more Bible, Math, and Writing.
Caleb read Cat Traps.
I read to them the first chapter of Stuart Little.

They are now listening to Devotion and building Legos. We bought this album when the African's Children Choir came to our area last year.

First Day of School

Caleb...



Luke...



Joey tagged along...



Math U See
First they watched a video and then worked on the corresponding worksheets.



Science
We set up three bowls of water: warm, room temperature and cold. They placed their hands in the warm and cold bowls for 30 seconds and then placed both hands in the room temperature one and noticed how much different each hand felt in the same water.



This is the book Caleb read to me. He surprised even himself with how well he did.

We also read Nate the Great, our Bible story book, and we watched the documentary, A Journey Home.