We are getting ready!

Hannah has 2 more days left of school after today. I am feeling a bit guilty for taking her out. I know her friends mean so much to her and she really loves her teacher. She goes back and forth between being sad and being excited about doing school at home. I am very excited as well.
Her birthday party will be on Saturday so she will get to see her friends again then. (Ohh! I gotta go order that cake!)
I have contacted some people through a Homeschool Yahoo group here and we are setting a weekly park day. We will meet around 11:30 for a pic-nic lunch and then have time to play and socialize. Hannah will love this and it will give her a great chance to make some new friends.
I went to Children's Books in Lyman yesterday. That place is crazy overwhelming. There is sooooo much there to look at. If you don't already know what curriculum you want to use it can be quite confussing. We got the Horizons K Math curriculum. I am going to start Hannah about half way though and Bekah in the beginning. I hope to have Bekah caught up by next year so I won't have to teach 2 math lessons.
Besides the Horizions I will be continuing Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. I have also found a handwriting curriculum on-line that follows along with this.
We will be going to the library to explore insects and animals and to learn about countries. I have decided to have the kids make lapbooks to document what they have learned about these topics. This is a new concept to me and looks like so much fun. I also bought the girls some journals that have blank space at the top to draw pictures and write about it. I hope that they can journal about what we learn. This will be more difficult for Bekah but it will be good to practice letter and sentence formation and will give her an idea of what is to come.
Here is a video I found on lapbooking that got me excited about it: