I guess this is the absolute latest start date we’ve ever had for school, but I had to give myself until after Labor Day to try to get the house in order. It’s not there yet, but we had a lot of help this weekend, and it’s getting there. Meanwhile, the Iowa City public schools started today, so we had to, too!
We started the year singing our hymn of the year, “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” and reading a chapter of Mark, then working on our poetry memorization together. The big kids have several core classes that they’ll be starting at the Mid Prairie Homeschool Assistance Program (a sweet little school district down in Amish country, about half an hour away) next week, so they did what they could, I worked through math, Latin, and language arts with the little girls, and then after starting history (Minoan culture), we ended around lunchtime. We spent the afternoon baking with our bounty from this weekend’s apple picking adventures with Grandma and Grandpa Muller!
