Day 1

Today we had our first day of homeschooling. I think over all, it went well. We made sure to give each boy an hour of his own individual "school" time, which I think was good. :)

Jack: Jack wasn't given any work to do from school, so we worked on a few things I knew he needed to learn. First, he did a science experiment to visualize why hand washing is so important. Then he wrote a paragraph about it and typed it up.

"We have to wash our hands before we eat. The germs go away with soap. We did an experiment with pepper and water and soap. We saw invisible germs on our hands can get in to our food unless we use soap. We should wash our hands for 20 seconds."

We ended his hour working on review of addition and multiplication.

Jason: Jason was given a program called IXL to work on, which he did for 20 minutes. He moved on to his math packet and then to his wax museum project he needs to complete.

Shawn: Shawn was given a ton of work to do, so he spent his hour working some of the math work sent home. He was working on reducing fractions, which he found a bit frustrating. He pushed through it though. Tomorrow, we'll likely focus on reading/language arts.

Our day in pictures...

Hard at work. LOL

Creative Time...

Painting the rainbow we saw outside.

"I'm painting a Monet," he said.