Celebrating our first week of school . . .

About half-way through the week, I decided that we needed to start a tradition of having a Friday night family time of sharing what we did in school each week. This particular week, I made a blueberry pie and homemade icecream sandwiches to celebrate our "first" week of the school year. Martin recited his memory verse for the week: And then he sang his Bible song, and he recited the poem(complete with hand motions) that he learned this week:Aaron recited his memory verse, and sang his Bible song: Jonathan shared that he learned the letter G this week: (okay so it was really the letter A that he learned. . . but at least he's not too far off! LOL)
Once they did their recitations, we walked around our dinner table and got to look at all that they did during the week. I put out all their worksheets, art projects, history timelines, journals, copy work, and handwriting samples. It took up the entire table. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of it. I'll have to do that next week. It was a challenging week for me to juggle schooling two of them while also tending to the spirited two year old, and a nursing infant, but once I put everything out on the table and saw all that we accomplished in only one week . . . WOW, it was rewarding! So, I think I may just have to lay it all out like that each week, just as an encouragement! I love our new curriculum. It challenges them to think and has lots of fun hands on activities to engage their minds. I am so thankful that I found this gem!

Once we were done with the presentations, we enjoyed a yummy treat of homemade ice cream sandwiches. I'll be posting how I made those later this week!