The Start of a New Adventure

Welcome family and friends!  As many of your know, we have decided to take on the adventure of home schooling and we are thrilled to share this with you!  Coming to the decision to home school was not a decision we came to easily and we only made this choice after much research and even more prayer.  We are happy to report that we have experienced so much peace after making this decision and we truly feel the Lord's hand in our decision.  I decided to start this blog in an effort to be able to share our adventure with all of you and I hope you enjoy going along with us on this journey!  We hope you join us often to read up on what is happening at what the kids and myself have come to call J.A.M Academy or Jesus and Me Academy. 

Now for the fun!  We started our school year on August 18, 2014 with a week filled with exploring rules and boundaries.  The kids were excited for the first day but a bit nervous about what it would all be like.

We had yet to receive all of the curriculum we had ordered so for the first week I planned our lessons from scratch.  We focused on the Ten Commandments and Jonah and the Whale and talked and learned extensively about following God's rules, school rules and directions from others.

The other item we concentrated on that week was developing goals for the school year and talking about what they wanted to be when they grow up.  We read one of my all time favorite books, Dr. Seuss' "Oh, the Place You Will Go" and made hot air balloons and pictures of ourselves.

Our first week was a blast and we learned a lot about classroom schedule, rules and how this all will work.