School days, School days

Although we have started a bit late this year, we have finally begun our schooling! We are now  2 + weeks in and starting to settle into a bit of a routine. Due to some changes in our schedule at home, we are now back to doing our schoolwork in the evenings, usually after supper. On my days off, we usually get it done early in the day and I hope that becomes our "norm" in November.

Mikayla is getting some practice writing her numbers.

Once again, we are using curriculum from Heart of Dakota.  We used Little Hands to Heaven last year and have moved on to Little Hearts for His Glory for Mikayla's Kindergarten.  As I was getting ready to start the school year, I decided to let Susannah begin Preschool by following along with us.  There is just no real reason to give her separate Bible, History, Storytime, Science, or Math since she sits in on all of this anyway. I have a separate program for her to use to develop fine motor skills and am working on basic phonics with her instead of reading. So far, this has worked really well.  Susie loves doing schoolwork like a "big girl" and I love that we can all work together!

With Susie, I am working on one-to-one correspondence.
Here she lines up her pizza pieces on dots under the
corresponding numbers.

One of the things I LOVE about the Heart of Dakota curriculum is that it is totally Christ-centered. Everything coordinates- History has a corresponding story from the Bible, then Science is taught from a Biblical perspective, then we can move on to our devotional and memory verse, etc, etc. It has been a real blessing to our family.

Here is just a sampling of what we have done for the past couple of weeks.

First, the colored the papers all the colors of the rainbow.

Like sin does, they covered all their beauty with a purple or
black crayon.

Then we used a paperclip to scratch out a beautiful
NEW heart that comes after forgiveness. <3 

Susie is practicing her coloring and shapes.

Adding stripes to the zebra--she loves her science!

After talking about Noah's ark, the girls and I built boats out of
foil and then tested them to see if they would float and
how much weight they would hold. Mine was the only one that held weight,
but we had a good time anyway!