First Week Down!

We completed our first week of school for this new year!  All of the boys fell right into our school habits, and overall the week went really well.   We ramp up lightly, just doing a few subjects the first week and add in more subjects each week until we are full scale by the end of August. 

We all did our Exploring Countries and Cultures together.   We started this week with basic geography terms, learning about North/South Hemisphere, Equator, and how map makers are able to turn a map of Earth, which is a sphere, into a flat map.   Even I learned something!  Did you know that Greenland is actually much smaller than South America?  If you look at a flat map, it appears to be the same size if not bigger.  But if you look on a globe, which is more accurate, you see that Greenland is much smaller!  It never dawned on me, and apparently I had been looking at the large wall map we have had up for a few years.  Huh, ya learn something new every day!  

Cooper and Max had a little art project, creating Children of the World.  They both enjoyed it and I actually had to ask them to finish up and put it to the side so we could move on.  They would have made those children all day long!

Chandler started a literature study with the Bronze Bow.  I am happy with the thought and care he is putting into his answers.

We also signed up for our co-op classes that will be on Fridays, starting  in September.  I was nervous that we wouldn't get the classes we wanted, since we are the newbies this year and had to register after the older members.   But as it turned out, we got all the classes we wanted!

Max will take a class for K5 students for three hours, with lots of different fun activities, and one hour of Art.
Cooper will take Royal Rangers (a type of bible-based Scouts), Magic School Bus Science, Spanish and Pioneer Club (another scout type program).
Chandler will take Apologia Physical Science, IEW B (Composition), Book Club, and Wacky Math.

It should be lots of fun!

We have been busy going back and forth to Chandler's football practice four nights a week.  He is playing with the Anderson Cavaliers, http://andersonfootball.org/, which is about a 50 minute drive for us each way.  Add to that the actual 2 hour practice, and it pretty much eats up our entire evening.  By the time we roll into our garage, the boys are all hot, dirty and tired.   A quick clean-up and everyone jumps into bed.    I am thankful that we found another family who lives about 5 miles from us, and has a son on the same team.  We will start car-pooling this next week, so that will cut down that trek for us a few nights a week.

Children of the World created by Cooper and Max: