Surviving Week One of the 2009-2010 School Year

We have managed to conquer our first week of school for three of the girls this week. I would say we have definitely accomplished a lot! This is a condensed list of all the learning that has taken place in our home this week:

• 25 math lessons: place value to billions, inequalities
• 17 literature lessons: “Chanticleer and the Fox”, “It Could Always Be Worse,” “Chura and Marwe”, “The Tiger’s Whisker”, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “The Story of Scarface”; “Beowulf”
• 15 language arts lessons: vocabulary, spelling, parts of speech, kinds of sentences, conjunctions and interjections, prepositions
• 13 social studies lessons: Geography, American History after 1865, American Government
• 10 science lessons: ecosystems, producers, consumers, decomposers, physical systems, measurement and the international system
• 10 Spanish lessons: greetings, Spanish alphabet, Spanish comparisons
• 4 art lessons: kinds of art, an artist’s role

That’s an amazing 94 lessons in just one week! We even survived it all with no tears or temper tantrums. I was very impressed with how cooperative and excited Jordann and Whitney were to begin their school year. I am hoping that it will still be smooth sailing as I begin my semester on Monday.