Tuesday, September 7, 2010

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: