We're back after a baby, some schooling without me keeping a log, and a "Summer Break"

This year is first grade for Connor. Here is what we have planned:

History - Story of the World - from the beginning (skipping over the Greeks, which we've already done) to the fall of Rome.

Reading - we'll continue with Phonics Pathways and Bob Books, adding other books as appropriate. I'm also using some additional material I found at Tampa Reads. We'll work some with "sight words" this year (Phonics Pathways does not teach any sight words, but groups all words phonetically. But jumping ahead with those words will help him to read some of the readers).

Math - we'll start with Singapore this year, as soon as I order it. Until then we're working on drill using games.

Science - no formal curriculum. Whatever books, games, kits and bugs catch their fancy.

Citizenship - as it comes up.

Aidan will end up doing a kind of "K4" this year, doing the history projects with us, learning his letters, etc.

Today we read Chapter 2 in SOTW, about the first people. Connor drew a picture illustrating the shelters of the nomads, hunting for food, sowing seeds for food, the first houses, the Fertile Crescent, and the first cities. He colored a map of the Fertile Crescent area, and found the Persian Gulf on a world map. He colored a picture of a man using a shaduf to irrigate his farms. He was disappointed that we didn't learn about the battles they had at this time.

He played his math "Lost in Space" CD working on simple subtraction drill.

We did a phonics worksheet and sounds review from tampareads.com

I read him a Ready-to-Read book Pearl Harbor. Then he practiced drawing items on the cover and from the pictures inside.

Aidan also colored the picture of the shaduf, and the map. He colored the Red Sea red, and the Black Sea black. He drew a picture of the first houses, made out of mud bricks. Then he added antennae "for the satellites". He sang the alphabet song for me, and watched a NOVA video about ants.