First Days

Well, this week marked two firsts for Miles. On Monday, he started kindergarten at the Sonlight program, then on Tuesday, we started our homeschool. He loved Sonlight and even made a new friend, Corbin. His teacher, Mrs. Wilson, gave him a Hershey's Kiss for good behavior all day. I walked him in in the morning and then went in to his classroom in the afternoon to take a few photos and pick him up. But if I want to, I can drop him off and pick him up without ever having to leave my car! They have teachers there to walk the children to the door, and some to walk them to the car in the afternoon. I have a car tag to hang on my rear-view mirror with a number and Miles's name on it so they know I'm there to pick him up. Also, I'll soon be given a card to swipe to get into the children's area if I ever need to come in during the day. I'm impressed by the precautions they take to keep the children safe.

A few shots from his first day of kindergarten:

A close-up of Miles's custom backpack, designed by Mommy! Our first week of homeschool was great! I had so much fun printing out all the activities for Miles's lessons. We studied robots this week. I read a few robot storybooks to him, as well as went over the definition of a robot, parts of a robot and things robots can do. Miles colored robots, colored robots, practiced handwriting by writing things robots can do, and even built a robot! We also studied Genesis 1 and learned all about the days of creation and did various activities related to it. The other subject we did was Mandarin Chinese. I checked out a video from our library that teaches Mandarin to kids and we watched it together. On Friday, we went to a local park for a "Naturalist Club" program sponsored by the City of Denton Parks and Recreation. We learned about the life cycle of butterflies and Miles got to make a caterpillar and butterfly. Then we took a walk on a nature trail and learned to identify poison ivy (which, I'm ashamed to admit, I didn't already know).

Here are all the projects Miles worked on this week.

His very first assignment, to make a creation book:

Working on a robot collage: Building a robot:
This is serious stuff!In Miles's own words, "The coolest robot ever!!!"His robot "lapbook".My proud kindergartener:
Wow, we did a lot this week!

We had such a great time! I know every week won't be this full, but every week will have opportunities for Miles (and myself!) to learn new things together.