Oh, how I’ve been missing this!

We started school, so blogging time has been nil. But, so far school is going well! It has not been without its challenges, some of which I expect to be ongoing for much of the year, actually. But I’m done freaking out about stuff, so I think we’re gonna have a great year.

For anyone who is interested, the curriculum we are using this year is as follows:

*Mathematics: Math on the Level, from Family Lifestyle Learning

*Science: Exploring Creation with Astronomy, from Apologia

*History/Geography: The Story of the World Vol. 2: The Middle Ages, from Peace Hill Press

*Language: BOB Books for Jonny and basic alphabet work for Aveline. They also both draw a picture in a journal every day and then write something about their drawing. Aveline copies one word of her choosing and Jonny writes, with guidance, one or two sentences of his choosing.

*We read Bible Stories from The Golden Children’s Bible and we read poems from A Family of Poems compiled by Caroline Kennedy.

All of the programs we’re doing this year offer such great flexibility and ideas for taking it further. I recommend all of them, if that ever changes, I’ll amend that statement here.

Here are a couple of photos from our project last week, to go deeper into our study of the Celts. We made Double-Headed Celtic War Axes!

Dig her Celtic warrior face?

Dig his Celtic warrior stance?

And, what the hay, here’s a drawing I did during my students’ journal drawing time one day.

Happy Beginning of the School Year!