First Half of the First Day

Today was the first day of homeschooling Moriah. It isn't as if I haven't homeschooled before - I've homeschooled children from 1993 until 2012. Because of everything that we have gone through, I chose to put Moriah in public school... until now.

And so, today was the first day with Moriah.  It is hard to convince a 4th grader who has been in school for 6 years, that you are now the educational authority in her life, especially a strong-willed child. So, I am using BJU's digital school for her Math, Spelling, Handwriting, and Reading. I am teaching her Bible, History, Science and Language Arts. Another day I will write about these, but I thought it would be good to chronicle my use of DVDs to teach my daughter.

So we started with Bible.  The BJU 4th grade Bible is solid, and I wanted to have the privilege of teaching Moriah what I consider essentials to her faith.  Today we talked about 3 Omni's: Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient.  We started the beginnings of Catechism, and focused on how God sees and hears the cries of His people.  We will finish Lesson One tomorrow, but I felt like I was introducing the subject Bible, as well as teaching it today, and I didn't want to overwhelm her.

We went on to do the Math 4 Videos. Moriah loved shouting out the addition drills! She smiled and laughed and told me that she liked it! I was so happy to see her excited about math, and she was more than willing to write things in her "Ship's Log" as well as starting her Math Journal (yes they sound like the same thing, but they are not.)

We finished with the Handwriting Video. Moriah did NOT like the puppets, and she complained bitterly about the words to America The Beautiful were too much.  She has a terrible grip on the pencil and this is going to take every single day to get her to use the correct one.

I stopped after that. I had stayed up way too late waiting for my daughter Jacintha last night, and I was getting a terrible headache.  After I rested for a couple of hours, we sketched our home from memory (the front of he home,) and I read a chapter from Little House on the Prairie. All in all it was a good day. I've set up for tomorrow when we will finish the first day...