School!

Today, we started "school". Zach is a sponge and love to go to Bible class. He always talks about it being "school". So, in keeping with my post below about spending time with your kiddos, I decided that it was a good thing to start. My goal is 1/2 hour a day. Zach's goal seems to be all day LOL. He loved it! I'm sure that with a few "lessons" he'll get tired and it wont be as much fun. His favorite thing, cutting with scissors. I think he now associates "school" with cutting. And I do have to say that in 1 day, he has learned how to hold the scissors properly and he's figuring out how to use that motor skill for opening and closing. I didn't realize how hard it is to use scissors for a kid!!

Jay is also participating, altho most of his lessons involve coloring and picking up Zach's cutting scraps (I didn't make him..he decided that was the most fun thing to do!!)

I am using the letter of the week program. Its slow and steady. I think that a 2 and 3 year old will do fine with it. This week, we're learning about cows, calfs, the letter A, the number 1 and the shape square. Each day you add a bit. Since we had 3 1/2 hour sessions today, we did cows/calfs and the letter A. Here are a few pictures of our "first day of school".

oh..p.s. I let him cut as many tiny pieces of paper as he wanted. I sat there for like a half hour one time.