Another Week Begins

As we start another week of school I am filled with excitement for my daughter. The fact that she is so eager to learn brings a great deal of joy to my life. I grow more and more excited and joyfull as I watch her grow and discover and learn with such ease. We shall see how the rest of this week plays out with new lessons and and tasty science project for later in the week.

This Weeks Topics:
Bible Study: Adam And Eve
Math: Ordering, Sorting and Sequencing
English: Short and Long Vowel Sounds
Social Studies: My Family
Science: The 5 Senses
Art projects: A Standing Family Tree, A Family of penguins, Popsicle Stick Frames,

The End of Week One

Today we ended the first week on a high note. We had our weekly review and all was well. The first week jitters are done and I anxiously await what the following weeks have in store. I am looking forward to many more highs and even the lows this wonderful journey that my daughter and I are able to take together.

So whats coming up this weekend. A time to hopefully relax a bit and get ready for the next week of lessons. some grocery shopping and another wonderful Sunday with our church family. This Sunday happens to be the first Sunday that Rebecca is allowed to partake in the Lords Super. This is another wonderful thing that I am looking forward to shareing with my precious gift from God, another way to help her gorw into a strong intelligent woman of God.

Liveing and Learning and Helping Eachother Grow!

As we continue on with day 2 and 3 I can see the wheels in my daughters head turning. Rebecca is one of those children that loves to learn and is always asking questions about everything and trying to figure out her own way of doing things. I smile As I watch her, as she goes about doing what has to be done. Sometimes things are not so easy, You know those momments when you just want to scream? But I wouldn't change anything. My little girl is growing and learning and teaching me along the way. I find I have learnt more about life in the last 6 years of being a mother the the last 26 years of just being me.

I am taken back a few years ago My daughter and I had just finished breakfast and now she is running around making siren noises pretending she is an abulance and that everyone she meets is sick and she has to help them.... She she comes running over to me and tell sme i'm sick and shes a doctor and then she rubs my arm and kisses it and looks up with those big brown eyes of hers "its ok mommy", she gives me a hug and then continues on her way. I also Remember a time when she was about two. I figure she maybe sits still ummm never......LOL no she dose but its rare and almost uncomfortable because its not something we're used to around the house. So needless to say after a few minutes of silance I decided it was best to go check on her..... I looked in all the rooms and then notcied a light on in the bathroom and the door was closed..... I opend it ato see what she was up to and there she was washing the toilet with Grandmas brand new toothbrush. I gave her some money and told her that she needed to give it to Grandma and apologize for using her toothbrush as a scrub brush. It's momments like these that make me so happy to be a mother. Some of the best times are when nobody is in the room and she is sitting their happily watching TV laughing her head off because whatever it is in the show is extremely funny to her and nobody else knows why.... Around the age of 3 she was waiting to watch Madigascar so I went out to help her start the DVD. Anybody that has seen the DVD knows that when you press play the Crate with the girafe falls over... Rebecca Saw this and just burst out like it was wrong not to.... She felt that it is was her duty to climb into anybox she could get her little body into and fall over. It's amazing how the simplest things (a cardboard box for example) can keep a child occupide for hours. Sitting here refflecting back on what has been a rollercoaster of a ride for the past 6 years I relise I wouldn't change a thing. Why would you wnat to when you have something so precious. I can not look at being a parent as a job but rather a privledge that God would trust me with such a precious gift.

When i feel down I think about her hugs and kisses and smiles. Her laughter brings more joy then the sun. I could never imagine a day without my precious angel.

Day 1

Today we started our lessons. I was a little concerned on how this would work out with house guest leaving, but they were off bright and early which meant that it didn't have an affect at all. Rebecca was eager to get started and as a reults she was able to get her work done early and head out for a walk to collect objects for our next math lesson. Will she be as eager tomorrow??

This weeks Topics:
Bible Study: To be determined
Math: Comparisan
English: Beginning and Ending Consonants
Social Studies: All About Me
Science: My Body
Art Prjects: Hand Butterflies, Finger Print Bugs, Twig Frames, Plaster Foot Prints

If you would like instructions and Material Lists for any Art Prjects that we Do throughout the year please do not hesitate to ask.

Off On A New Adventure

I'm the single mother of one absolutely amazing little girl. My daughter Rebecca is 6, this means the start of grade one and all sorts of new challenges. After much thought and consideration and countless hours of prayer, 3 years to be exact, I decided this year that I would go out on a lim and try my hand at homeschooling.
This will be no easy task but it is one I a bound and determined to go whole heartdly into with God's guidence, a solid lesson plan, and much support from other homeschooling moms that I have come to meet over the last couple years. I am greatly looking forward to the time I will be spending with my daughter helping her learn what is required by the Province and adding in the little extras that will make it a wonderfully fun and excitieng experience for her and I both.
I plan on using BC Mum as a way to share our accomplishments throughout the year and as a way for me to just get out what I need to get out at the end of the day.