This year all three kids are school age. We have a 4th grader, a 3rd grader and one in Pre-K! We loved our curriculum last year in the Weaver Unit Studies and plan to use them again this year but I wanted to take a slow start approach to school and a special field trip opportunity gave me just the opportunity. At the end of last year a field trip group was formed on Facebook that we joined. They are the ones we went with on the field trip to the Tamale Factory in the Spring. Anyway, with as busy as the summer was we didn't get a chance to go on any others over the summer with that group. I was thrilled though to hear they had a field trip scheduled to go to an apple orchard at the end of August. Not only do we get to learn about what they do there, we get to actually pick apples off the trees! How fun. So, for this reason we started out our school year with apples as well.
Public schools around here started on August 24th but we decided to start a week earlier. The first week of school was a huge success! We read all about Johnny Appleseed, we painted apple pictures, we learned and labeled the parts of an apple, we made homemade applesauce, and we read lots of books about Apples. We also did math, spelling and some writing with the older boys and studied the letter A and the color red with my youngest. For our Bible lessons we talked about Adam and Eve in the garden and original sin and then we talked about the Fruits of the Spirit and made a Spirit Tree. It was a great start of the school year and really set a good tone. Tomorrow is the orchard field trip which we are all excited about as well. I will post pictures afterwards but here are a few from the first week of school.
Praying that all students have a blessed and safe year and that they not only grow in knowledge of school subjects but that they grow in love of God and love for fellow people. Happy start of school to everybody!
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