Start of the school year

Today was our first full "official" day of homeschooling. I couldn't be more pleased with how it went. Last year, when I took out the phonics book, Zack would pracitcally fall asleep in his chair. Now, he wants to do two or three lessons a day.

I'm also fairly he's more of a kinesthetic learner, since both last year and this year, when given the choice between using objects, or number lines to work out his math problems, he always goes with objects. Here's a pic from my phone of him using the abacas for his addition today:

Snowmen in January shouldn't be a bad thing right?

Unless it's the living room and the snowmen have been drawn in marker! This is one of three snowmen the boys drew on the living room carpet. The largest of which was about Mia sized. Washable markers thankfully. I think they figured if they Xed it out, I wouldn't notice......and here are the little angels cleaning it up.