Grade 1

We are in Grade 1 now and still homeschooling.  We have a good virtual school that he attends 2 mornings a week and is enjoying.

He just turned 7 years old and is a big boy for his age.  He is very sweet and happy most of the time.  He loves his video games and plays whenever he can.

He's lost 5 teeth and has grown 23 back with 2 more coming through.  Makes for a very cute smile.  :)

Daxism's

Yesterday for lunch he had cheese and crackers, juice and gummies for desert.  He came over to where I was sitting with a piece of cheese over his nose that he was holding in place.  I asked him what the cheese was for and he said it was so the gummies don't jump up his nose!

Today he was sitting on my lap and we each had a hotwheel car and ever since he was little he has always driven them down my shirt and he parks them in my bra.  Well today he wanted to put his car there so he told me he needed to park his car in my booties.......  All day I had a yellow truck parked in my "bootie"  (they warm up and you forget about them)

Dax loves hot chips.  So once the bag is opened he eats some and then he holds the bag shut as he brings the bag to us to get a clip to hold the bag shut and it needs to be done right now.  When asked why he says it's so the heat doesn't get out.

September beginnings

Getting organized and gathering supplies to start teaching D some of what he needs to start Kindergarten a year from now.  I like some of the ideas I have seen for getting the little ones started learning and getting into the routine of the having a quiet time to sit and be read to, learn his alphabet, learn his numbers and what it actually means.  I think a trip to the dollar store is needed to supplement what I already have here.  We need some baskets and alphabets and number posters, some new paints among other things.

I already have a few pre-K workbooks and one for 4 year olds to get them to start learning how to form letters.  I might need a printer to start printing some work pages etc.

Right now I am thinking a good area to have our little learning space will be in the kitchen so he needs a shelf to hold his stuff and I need a few tubs to keep my stuff in.

He is signed up for swimming lessons starting the end of the month for 2 weeks-5 days a week for half an hour.  The pool and rec centre is just a few blocks from our place so that will be a good activity for him for those two weeks.

I am going to have to figure out how to flow from one thing to another to keep him intersted and I think I am going to set a fairly rigid routine until we get used to following it each day then we can go from there.

It's a start.  :)

His room needs better organization too.  I am going to take a tub or two and put away alot of my art supplies for now so I can concentrate on him.  We are going to do some baking as well.  Lots of ideas and lots of fun stuff for us to do each day.