For Tate and Eliza, our first week of “full-time” school was all about the letter N.

I did not take very many photos of school last week, but I want to include these few in my little scrapbook!

We made lots of crafts about the letter N.

Because crafts + littles = a WIN.

I always follow the My Father’s World Kindergarten plans with the littles – which is why we have the structure of a letter each week. Then I add a bunch of printables and all the other fun stuff I find!

The littles really enjoy being read to, and I had collected a huge pile of “N” books from the library. Here are a few from one day of reading.

Our first FIAR book for this school year is Follow The Drinking Gourd.

This book is set in the 1800’s and is about slaves escaping to freedom by following the big dipper in the night time sky.

SO many things to run with because of this book!

We have been learning about slavery, free states and slave states, southern plantations, cotton growing and harvesting, stars and constellations, measures of time, compound words, bird calls, Harriet Tubman, and so much more.

FIAR is probably my favorite curriculum that we use!

We painted night skies with the big dipper hanging in it.

Lane matched some compound words.

We did a lot of map work concerning the free states and the slave states before the Civil War, including an interactive map on line.

Last week was a very fun week of school! And a great start to our year!

As I am typing this, I realize I have not used my camera once since Tate’s birthday party on Saturday night. Drat!

This week has been fun so far too! It is “T” week! And we are still rowing the book Follow The Drinking Gourd!

AND – Addie Mae took her driver’s test and PASSED!!! WOO HOO!!

Hope you all are having a great week so far too!