First Day of 5th, 2nd and prek!

We had our first day of school this Tuesday and it was great :).  Aly was slightly hesitant due to starting when many of her friends are still on summer vacation, but we're just starting back part time (they spent the entire next day sewing with their aunt LOL), and we need to stock up some time for when we have to take some time off for my consignment sale event.

1st day of school

We're very excited to be going with My Father's World this year.   I really wanted to do it last year, but going with a "box" curriculum has such a stigma attached to it, and the cost of it seemed so high, that I just avoided it.  I thought I could do better for cheaper.  Well...I wish I wouldn't have done that, so this year, MFW it is!  We're starting their 5 year cycle by using Exploring Countries and Cultures.  This will be a full year of world geography where we not only learn the locations of countries on a map, but we truly learn about the culture of the residents of many of those countries.  We will also learn about the different religions in these regions and how we, as Christians, can pray for their lives to benefit them the most.  We will learn how they eat, live, work, etc. 

We started by reading the book Maps and Globes.  It's actually a Reading Rainbow book so we're going to be watching the episode on it soon as well.  We then read the intro of Window on the World. From there, we went on a walk through the neighborhood as we prayed for our neighbors, showing us that no matter what we're doing, where we are, or who we're with, we can pray :).

Praying throughout our neighborhood

The girls then had to fill out an application for their passport for this year.  They filled out the application, wrote the check for $80 and addressed it to the passport official (Daddy).  The Passport Official told them that unfortunately there was a 3-5 week processing time for getting their passports, so now they're just having to wait.  It's like torture.

Mir loved working on her preschool work.  She feels like such a big girl when she gets to do this.  Her sisters enjoyed it too because they each had their time when they got to work with her on her MFW Preschool toys while I was working individually with the other sister.  Love seeing them all work together...and enjoy it!

Besides the fun stuff above, they also did the 'boring' Grammar, Spelling and Math.  No fun stories about that...just something we all have to do :).  We ended up getting more done for the first day than I had planned, so that was nice.  At the end of the day, when I asked how the first day back to school was, I got a resounding, "GREAT!"  Makes for one happy Mama :)