Welcome

This is my homeschooling blog for Flora's 1st Grade year.  We are using lesson pathways primarily - lessonpathways.com

The goals for this week are:

- Learn about King Tut and life in his times.
- Learn about syllables and continue learning sight words
- Read the poem "Bed in Summer" by RL Stevenson
- Learn about nature in our neighborhood; bird watching and tree identifying, make a nature journal and write in it daily etc.
- Continue to work in her Dorling Kindersley math workbook

We live in PA, and since Flora was born in November we will not need to keep records for her homeschooling until September 2012.  Third grade!  I prefer to keep my own records now, however.

Today we went to the library and got all the supplies, so we will be read to start tomorrow.

For "life skills" she will continue to help me with household chores and color in her safety themed coloring book.  For physical activity she will continue to work towards mastering her bicycle. :)  She is a new and avid reader so I will continue to make her favorite CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS books available to her and give her the time and space to get bored enough to read them.  These subjects I prefer to take a more unschooling, unplanned attitude towards.