First day of Gymnastics

Oiy, I am weeks behind on blogging!

School is going well for the girls - one month in already.

More pics to come later on that.

Well, we had our first day of gymnastics for both girls this week.

They LOVED it.

 Eliz is fearless on the equipment.

 Parachute fun!

They spent a lot of time hanging up side down with legs in a straddle position 

(which is not the most photo-friendly), so I won't include those.  :)

It was a fun week!

In full swing

We finished up our second week of Kindergarten and Preschool - and it feels great!  The girls are enjoying school time and we are moving right along in their curriculum.  Because I am not using a boxed program like many others, where it's all planned out for you, it has taken many hours to pull together thematic units and pieces from several curricula to tailor a fun, hands-on and creative program for the kids.  It is definitely not the easy road to homeschooling, and so I end up spending more hours than most putting it all together.  But it works and they love it, and it is worth it all in the end.

Five in A Row and Before Five in A Row - our main literature source and basis for extra activities including science, drama, art, social studies, etc.
Explode the Code Book 1 for phonics practice, along with Jolly Phonics and Don Potter's Word Mastery.
Handwriting without Tears for Elizabeth.  
Learn-at-Home Kindergarten for Emilie - handwriting, science, math, social studies supplement
Montessori Math Manipulatives and RightStart Math A for Emilie; Rod & Staff Counting with Numbers
Confessions of a Homeschooler's K printables for thematic units, as well as other websites
Leading Little Ones to God, The Big Picture Storybook Bible, Arch Book Bible stories
Memoria Press Kindergarten Recitation/Memory Work and music selections for Emilie 
Keyboard Capers (Music theory for children) - we'll see how this works.
Rod&Staff Preschool Series for Elizabeth

We'll also be doing our homeschooling co-op on Mondays, Community Bible Study on Thursdays, Gymnastics on Wednesdays, and Soccer on Tuesdays.  And possibly Korean School in the fall on Saturday mornings for Emilie.  It will be a full semester and will zip by.  I'm excited.