Its that time of year again

Well, here we are. Just one week away from starting a new school year.

This year we have made the decision to start Arielle in Kindergarten even though she is only 4. She is so beyond ready to start school and she could really use something to be doing with her day.

Dartanion will be starting 1st grade.

While searching for what curriculum I would be using I happened to stumble upon an online homeschool program. It is a Christian based education with Bible built in as one of the core subjects. A lot of it has an online component but I am working to modify it to be as offline as possible. There have been some that say it can't be done but they haven't met me yet! HA!

You can see more of that curriculum here at Easy Peasy All in One HomeSchool

Arielle will be going through the My Father's World Kindergarten program that Dartanion just finished. We had a lot of fun with this program last year and I am looking forward to going through it again with her.

Now that both kids are going to be "in school" I am going to be using this little corner of the internet to keep tabs on what the kids are doing. This will be the place where grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, and anyone else who wants to follow along will be able to see what we are learning and what fun activities we have going on.

My plan as of right now is to update every Sunday evening and Friday afternoon.

Sunday will be our weekly intro. I will share what we will be studying in each subject and any fun activities we have planned.

Friday will be our weekly wrap up. I will talk about any details we might have missed in our weekly intro as well as fun projects or activities we did in regards to the lessons.

I am hoping that this will be somewhat picture heavy since I want to capture the neat activities that the kids will do as they learn and grow.

I hope that you will enjoy this school year with us!

Keep an eye out on Sunday as I introduce the first week of school's lessons and activities!

Back to School

Can you believe that it is time for school to start already?!?  I feel like the summer just started with all the fun things we did.

For a little summer update we had 2 little friends with us for most of the summer. It was fun to have 2 more little bodies in the house to give Dart and Arielle some new friends to play with. That was a neat little adventure.

We also took a little big of a trip in the middle of July. Dart and Arielle got to spend some time with Grammie and Pa Pa along with Uncle J. and Aunt P. in Oklahoma. Mom went to a conference in Denver and Dad stayed home for a few days then went to have fun in OK. too.

And lastly, Grandma, Grandpa and Ma came to visit us right before school started. That was fun because we got to spend some time showing them around downtown and we got a super yummy dinner out with them while they were here.

AND...now on to back to school. Dart started Kindergarten this year and Arielle began with her 3 year preschool program.

Dart's 1st day of Kinder

Arielle's 1st day of Pre-K3

Here in our little area of the world we have A LOT of homeschoolers. We also have a lot of little ones who aren't in school just yet. And we also have a few kiddos who go to school a few days of the week and are home in the other days of the week. Kids are around to play almost anytime we are ready to play.

One of the things that could be come complicated is the need to be able to get through school uninterrupted.  That is why I created these cute little signs to hang on the doors.

Chalkboard is in right now so I wen't with Chalk board paint. And the red and green out line is for the kids. Most kids know that green means "Go" and red means "stop".

All supplies were purchased at Hobby Lobby!

Once. they were painted and dried I hung them on the doors outside and I 'try' to remember to turn them when we are focusing on school or when we are done.

On the front door by the playground

On the back door by the parking lot
I didn't have anywhere else to use so it hangs off the wreath.

And now school is in full swing. Here's to a great year!