We have an eighth, fourth, and third grader and a kindergartner and a get into everything, climb on your lap and take the pencils and laugh turkey.
We started the morning with lessons and when Big O Daddy O, finally resurfaced from the covers he went to go get our annual Krispy Kreme treats for the first day of school.
Suprisingly, things went really well. I was sick through late morning and lunch, stress of the last month caught up with me, but the kids kept plugging along.
Most everything got finished.
We celebrated by going swimming at the Y this afternoon.
1 Day done, 176 more to go!
~~ I got a lot of "why start on Wednesday? questions." Well I discovered not too far into my homeschooling venture, staying true to lesson plans that HAD to be Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri... all the time just didn't work for us. No flexibilty in it. This year, praying and pondering, I realized first days don't go well on Mondays for us. We have all the hullabub coming out of the weekend. So we had our crazy Monday/Tuesday. We started Wednesday. We are getting our feet wet, starting slow with 3 days and then a weekend. Instead of sticking to a M-T-W-H-F schedule (some things we do...like music lessons/spelling, etc.) I plugged everything into HomeSchool Tracker and we'll plug along. And LIFE is well, pretty much that way. Things just don't always happen on schedule or the day you specify. Just gotta roll with it. The beautiful thing is, IF we stay on track, some of our stuff will be done in April and the rest in early May. So, I have some wiggle room for sickness this year. That will be nice, it is a first for us. So we are just going to do what Homeschool Tracker tells us to do each day. Can't argue with a computer !
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Happy First Day of School!
Another advantage of homeschooling--doing what works for your family.
Wishing you all a great school year.
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