Turnig "home" into a page

Hello, I’m using a child template of wood-is-good on my new blog and I can’t solve this problem related to my home page that is native with the template. I would like to have a static home page to introduct the website and a separate blog page. I made some trials but I can’t transform that “home” into a page to handle it better. I suppose I should work on this tag on the header template:

<ul id=”nav”>
<li <?php if(is_home()) { echo ‘class=”current_page_item”‘; } ?>>“>Home
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?>

What shall I put instead?

Tks, Luca