"Real" School Time

For several weeks now we have been having "real" school, as Eli calls it! We made a deal back in the fall that when he started wearing big boy underwear we would start. He kept his end of the deal in late fall and so we began at the beginning of the year. It was a slow start as I didn't get around as quickly as I would have liked and we had lots of sick days early on too!

But we are pretty much into a routine now and I thought I would share our routine of "real" school (I'm not sure what "fake school" would look like, but oh well!!)

We begin with Maddie, Evan (the 18 month old I babysit for) and Eli all on the couch with me as I read a Bible Story from this book.

This book was given to the boys for Christmas and I thought we would start with it. Eli seems to be enjoying it and Maddie and Evan just like to be read to!

After our Bible Story we say a little prayer for our school day! This picture is priceless. I love that I was able to capture this today! We usually pray for Eli to have a fun day of learning and for Maddie and Evan to get along during the day of play!

So may captions could go with this above picture - it's just awesome! Proverbs 22:6, at work!

Next Eli says his Bible Verses, we are working our way through the alphabet with Bible Verses - He's doing great. We also have some music and sing the songs that go with our verses!

Then Eli gets to Journal. Lately his journal pictures have been about our Bible story!

Then we have a couple of workbooks that we are using. He's learning things like his letters, numbers, shapes, colors, opposites, etc. Below he is drawing squares!

Maddie and Evan usually get a long pretty well. Today they were having a little reading/school time of their own.

Lelah usually just crawls around and plays while everyone is busy!

Our school day is not usually long, but we get in just enough to keep learning!

The first day we did "real" school, Eli was so excited. When we finished he wanted to call someone and tell them about his first day. We found Grandma Adkins at home. So now (almost) every day after he is done he calls Grandma to tell her about his school day!

So...we're really learning around here!