Home School, week 1!

So we jumped into our curriculum this week. We are using a unit study from My Father's World called Exploring Countries and Cultures (ECC). This allows me to do several subjects integrated and teach both girls at the same time. They work on math, reading, and English on their own level. Working with my girls in this way has already given me some insight into how each of them learns and what they struggle with. I also have been working with Lucy on pre-school concepts (to her we are playing games).
We are really enjoying the curriculum so far. The first two weeks are an intro to the year in which we will be traveling all over the world. This week the girls learned about maps in geography, habitats in science, and our study verse for Bible was John 3:16. In art we created a collage of beautiful faces from all over the world, and listened to traditional songs from all over the world. In math, as the beginning of the school year usually consists of review, both girls are reviewing concepts. In English, both girls are learning about sentences at their grade level. We also work on handwriting, spelling, and reading. I'm sure I am forgetting something!!
Here are some picture highlights from our week: we discovered how difficult it is to map a round world on a flat piece of paper, we observed the habitat in our backyard.