Today was our first day of School for 2011-2012! We started early again this year since my due date is Sept again. This way we can take a few more weeks off school if we need to! A~ turned 5 in Feb, and today was her 1st day of 1st Grade! S~ just turned 4 in May and today was her first day of Kindergarten! E~ turned 2 in June and today was her first day of pre-school, and T~ will be 1 in August and she was just along for the ride.
I was a bit upset about the photos today, we had several great photos that we took and we lost them so we had to improvise! So what you don't see today you will see in our photos tomorrow.
We started our day out with our school songs, and then we did the pledge to the American Flag, Christian Flag, and the Bible. Today E~ got to be the bible holder.
Our number for today was the number 1. S~ got to put up the 1st apple on our tree today! We also wrote the number 1 on our 100 chart.
A~ did her number of the day worksheet. She practiced writing the number 1 and then we wrote equations that equaled 1.
A~, also gets to start her first math book this year. We start this year off with learning about patterns. It was actually a bit more challenging then I thought it would be. We used blocks to help her understand the problems and she did great!!
A~ did page 1 of her student workbook, which for the next 9 days is just reviewing the ABC's how to write them correctly and their sounds.
Today we learned about the first day of Creation. Genisis 1:1-5 In the beginning God created the sky and the earth. The earth was empty and had no form. Darkness covered the ocean, and God's Spirit was moving over the water. Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness. God namaed the light "day" and the darkness "night." Evening passed, and morning came. This was the first day."
We colored the number 1 for "Creation day 1" and also made page 1 of our creation book showing dark from light.
Then A's~ bible lesson today was about Scrolls. We learned how the bible was a special book because it had God's words in it. It was written a long time ago and instead of books, people wrote on scrolls. Instead of having pages like a book, scrolls were made of one large long sheet, up to 35 feet long and 10-12 inches wide. The sheets were made from leather, parchment, or a plant called papyrus. They were rolled up from left to right between two wooden rollers. The rods were usually decorated at both ends with knobs or ornaments, to protect the scrolls and make them easier to handle. Scrolls were often stored in pottery jars. The writing was in short vertical columns a few inches wide, written side by side, and separated by a narrow space. To read the scroll, one column at a time was uncovered and read, and then rolled up on the other roller. usually people only wrote on one side of the sheet. It took five scrolls to write the first five books of the Bible!
When a bible scroll got old, people couldn't just go to the store and buy a new one like we can with a book today. Somebody had to copy ALL the words by hand! They had to write VERY VERY carefully so there weren't any mistakes. The words were so special because the Bible is God's words to us!
So on the pages above A~ wrote the letters A, B, & C in her best handwriting! Then as we finish all 26 letters in the next few days we will link them together and make our own scroll!
Today was a great start to the year I'm looking forward to sharing our day with you tomorrow, since we lost a few photos today!
Awesome, Toneka! You are doing a great job and you're an inspiration!!!
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