Today, we embarked on a new journey as a family.
Today, I sat with our girls, all three of them, around the kitchen table and studied the Bible. We learned about Joseph and some of the trials he faced in his life. Some as a result of his choices and others as a result of his brother's choices.
Later, we created a "collage of many colors". The girls had a good time discussing the story while they cut and glued and laughed.
Then, as we talked about the coat that Joseph was given, I asked the girls if they knew how cloth was colored in that time. I grabbed what was on hand and steeped some tea and threw some frozen blueberries in a bowl with some hot water. We took 2 pieces of white fabric and swirled them around in the water. Princess N said she thought the fabric in the tea would turn a reddish color and that the one in the blueberries would be blue. She was surprised to see the one in the tea turn brown.
Afterward, we watched "The Ballad of Little Joe." We had been anticipating our next door neighbor's son's arrival, but I found out that he was going to a friend's house today instead of ours.
It has been a good first day of school. Lady A still protested a bit that she didn't want to have school at home, but she did well through the lessons.
I just pray that tomorrow things go as smoothly!
10 years ago
3 comments:
Congratulations and welcome to home schooling! I had been wondering what you had decided. Glad you had a good first day. We had our homeschool evaluations today. We passed :).
YAY for passing your evaluations!!
I didn't know you were going to home school. Sounds like a great first day!
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