Home School Excitement!

I finally got to order my curriculum for our first year of home school. Actually, because it is so expensive, I only ordered half of it and I’ll order the other half next month. Anyway, we were so anxious that we almost tackled the FedEx man before he could get to the door!

SonLight box

Smarty was dying to rip into the box. He was kind enough to wait until I could take a quick pic of him first, though.

Once I gave him the go-ahead, he was off!

He ripped right in.

I like that the box can be turned into a castle when it’s empty. Smarty liked that too. He couldn’t wait for me to get the books on the shelf so he could have the box. If you look, you can see the print of the castle walls on the inside of the flaps.

The first thing he came to was a gift for me. How sweet is that? It’s a pendant made from a Widow’s Mite (read Luke 21:1-4). I can’t wait to wear it proudly. I should’ve taken a picture of it but I forgot. I’ll try to post a picture of it soon.

He was excited to see a CD from the Bible course. I’ve listened to it and it sounds pretty good. It puts their Bible memory verses to song to help them learn them.

He pulled out all of the books and called out the titles so I could mark them off of the invoice to make sure we had them all.

We made quite a mess! We had fun, though, and that’s what’s important!

I piled them all back in the box for a day or two until I could get the new bookshelf from my parents’ house. Once the shelf was in, I cut little yellow strips from the self-adhesive paper they sent with the curriculum and color-coded all of the books. The idea is that by having the yellow stripe on the binding, we should always be able to remember to put the books back on the correct shelf. I hope it works!

*Obviously, the cigar box isn’t part of our curriculum but I needed something to serve as a bookend.

I’ve been reading my Instuctor’s Guides and I really believe I’m going to love this curriculum. I can’t wait to get the rest ordered!

Thanks for sharing in this journey with me,

June 30, 2009 | Filed Under Uncategorized

Comments

3 Responses to “Home School Excitement!”

Luke Holzmann on August 11th, 2009 2:10 pm

Happy Box Day! (late, I know)

Hope your year is going super well [smile].

~Luke
Mike Armstrong on October 26th, 2009 5:24 am

Wow that’s really great.. I am a degree holder and I really miss stuff like this one. I am missing the school. Good luck little man.
I Can See The Light : A Heart For Home on May 6th, 2010 9:05 am

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