First day of Homeschool!

“it’s back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time.” – Steven Colbert

That makes me snicker, but I’ll tell you, I really enjoyed watching the bus drive by this morning while my kiddos were in their jammies eating breakfast. Welcome to our first day if homeschool! It certainly isn’t our first day of home learning. We’ve been doing that since the wee ones were born! Today was our first day of government sanctioned school at home. I cant believe we are here already. Emily is 5 and 1/2. Wow time goes quickly. Im going to be blogging our journey as a way to remember and for our support teacher to know what we’ve done this year.

Here is our first day! Emily in Kindergarten and Avery in Preschool.

We started with Waffles! I think thats going to be the beginning tradition! I would have made real waffles, but we just got back from Calgary late yesterday and we were missing pretty much everything to make them, so Eggo was the waffle of the day.Then Emily got dressed in her back-to-school Justin Beiber shirt.lol. We were going to take the back to school pictures but the new printer isn’t hooked up, so I’ll print out our sign in a few minutes after I blog and then we’ll take the pictures.

We started with Bible. We started right at the beginning of Emily’s Children’s Bible and I explained about the New Testament and Old Testament and how they fit together. Then we read the story of Creation and had a time of prayer.

Then we moved on to Math. We are still waiting for part of our Math to get odered, so we are working out of 1 workbook for now. Its called Early bird Math We are in the 1st unit and are working on Matching.

While Em was working on Math and Reading, Avery played with playdoh. She created mushy masterpieces for about an hour before she switched to colouring.

Then we read from Book 1 from Progressive Phonics. We are starting with short /a/ sound words. Emily is picking them up really quickly. The writing portion proved to be the tough part of our day because Em isn’t very patient and neither is Mommy with this one. She thinks she know it all already, so she just squiggles whatever and says she’s done. This one is going to take patience I think! Get Set For The Code is another writing book we are using and that went better,but its less actual letter writing.

Then we tried out our back to school sensory bin!

It’s got Shredded Paper, Magnet numbers, 3 sizes of tweezers or Tongs, squishy fiddle bugs, erasers, a little burlap bag from a friends wedding last month, a scoop and bouncy balls. The girls thoroughly enjoyed it and they are already excited for the other sensory bins.

We decided to call it quits for the day and made lunch. I’m sure we will do a few things after nap time, but Mommy needed a break! They did too.

Id’d call that a successful first day of school!