Ancient History and Literature (AHL): Week 1 Day 1

Well, Rabbit is a bit ambitious. We are enrolled in a homeschool co-op this fall for her Biology labs, so that is going to take about 2 hours out of our day once a week. Rabbit is starting the AHL part of her year now, trying to get about 30 days out of the way so she won't have to do AHL on those days.

The first day was pretty good. We went through the lesson plans and just worked through them together. It was shorter than 3 hours, so we filled in a lot of reading. Plus, she's been doing Logic this summer, too.

I did copy all the timeline pieces from the AHL packet onto Avery 8 x 11.5 label paper, and Rabbit has already started coloring some of them. I think it will look really nice doing it this way. It even has me thinking of making an accordion fold timeline for each of the boys to keep in their history notebook, and then copying the Creation to the Greeks timeline pieces onto the label paper so they can each have their own timeline. I would still put one on the wall using the pieces we colored and laminated from the first time through.

Oh, I forgot to mention, Rabbit is in All About Spelling Level 7. I am very excited about the content of it. It covers Latin and Greek roots (which we will also be covering in Creation to the Greeks this fall), and words that we have pulled in from Italian and Spanish. Plus, it has a system for the kids to keep adding words they need to work on as they go.

We didn't get to math, or Physical Science (we have the last module to finish), but I also started the boys on our summer-school light program. I think it may take the whole summer to figure how to juggle two programs, but that's fine. That is one of the reasons we do summer-school light.