Second day of school

Well, so far so good. Trying to ease us all back into the routine.  Serenity is quite excited to prepare "school" for Israel. eg she dresses him in special clothes and brushes his hair, and packs some snacks for him in his little backpack :) then she chooses some pages from his collection of activity books (like dot to dots, matching things etc.)
He loves having his own things to do during the first intensive parts of my school work with Serenity.
We start with reading a chapter or two (or sometimes 3-4) from the Bible.  We started from Genesis a year or 2 ago, and are currently up to the end of Job.  I read it straight most of the time, but occasionally i translate some tricky words.  I found a great resource of activity sheet sets, which include a colouring page she does while i read, a sheet of true/false statements relating to the particular reading, and a word find and maze.  All with 2 varying ability levels.
http://children.calvarychapel.com/SITE/curriculum.htm
  Awesome! check it out!
Im trying very hard to go softly softly with her reading and writing.  She struggles so much with it, and she improved so much in the last semester of 2009, that i want to give her a break for a little while.  After all, now she is delicately exploring small reading opportunities - like the tv guide at Nell and Grandpas house, and the new kids recipe book she got off Nanna Debbie.
http://www.littlekitchen.com.au/shop2/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=92

I read to her from a lovely book about the history of pianos.  Seeing as we had lo leave the piano in our home at Ulmarra, she cant have any real piano lessons for a while.  So ill do a bit of theory.
Of course when lunch came around they were hankering for a swim, so we all jumped into the pool.  Serenity is trying to perfect her new diving ability.