And, we're back!

Today was our official start day for Corbin's 1st grade year. Here is what we did:

Math-Singapore Math 1B, we are working on larger number subtraction. Once I feel he has a good grasp on it(he is very close) we will move on to money.

Language Arts-
Grammar: Mad Libs
Phonics: Explode the Code 1.5, Last book in the second set of Bob Books
Writing: Handwriting without Tears Power Printing 1st page, Garden Journal

History-we are using Story of the World 1 book and activity guide
Read "What is History?" then answered the review questions

Science-we are using "Let's Read and Find out" as our spine books mixed in with Singapore Early Bird Science. I am using "Learning through the years" as a guide for what topics to cover.
We talked about Taxonomy. We are keeping it to Mammals, Reptiles, Amphibians, Fish, Birds, Insects and broad Invertabrates. Over the next 7 weeks we will cover one "family" per week. For our first week we are covering Mammals. Today we talked about the characteristics found in Mammals. We hung the Mammals up on our wall chart(that will eventually hold all the different families). We listed a bunch of animals then followed the characteristic "clues" to decide if they were mammals or not.

Corb has also been following the pumpkin seeds he planted 7 weeks ago. Each week he makes a journal entry about the growth of the plant. This week he discovered 2 little pumpkins. He drew them life size in his journal and wrote "There are 2 little pumpkins."

Hadley started back up with her Math, Writing and Phonics. She decided to join us for Science and Mad Libs but not History.

We took an unplanned trip to the Vet today as well.

I am going to start offering ETC and HWT to Lennon after his birthday on the 14th, but it will be entirely up to him if he wants to do anything or not.