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Aug. 27, 2007

Our First Day of School

Well, it was our first day of school and I have the pictures to proove it. I must say that it has been an amazing day. I woke this morning fairly nervous for our first day of school. Why was I nervous? It is not like I had a class room full of students to teach and entertain, nor did I have to give any kind of speech but yet I was still nervous. I suppose it is because I have had very high expectations for this day to be a fun filled learning experience which for me means that I would have to control myself through every trial... the fits, the accidents, the silliness, the distractions and the emotions. I didn't want to be a blinding hindrance to their joy of learning. I started off the day with 3 prayers, one for me, one for Superman and one of T-Rex. I originally wanted to get them all up by 7:00 but as the procrastinator that I am I still had just a few things to finish and so it was 7:40 by the time I made it to their room. Superman began getting ready and T-Rex was left to sleep for a little longer. Superman ate breakfast, oatmeal and then little T-Rex came in to join him all dressed and ready. Soon after began our morning chores. Then Superman went to his room for some quiet time with the Lord and T-Rex, Butterfly and I had our own quiet time together. When Superman finished I glanced at my Schedule for the day which looked like this:

Week 1

Monday

Tuesday 8-28

7:30 Bible

Bible Truths

Lssn: 1 "It is Good"

Bible

Read and Praise

Memory Verse

OT Books

Genesis-Malachi Flashcards

Gen. 1:1

A Beka Poster

8:00 Grammar

FLL

Lssn: 1

Activity

Needle and Lace

Reading

Independent

Letter of the week

Lssn 1 Theme Cows: acted like cows

9:00 Math

Horizon

Lssn: 20

Poems, songs, Rhymes

Find animals/Old MacDonald

9:45 Spelling

Spelling Workout

Lssn: 19

Gift Play

Playdoh

Copy Work

Bible

Letter&# Activities

a=coloring page

10:30 History/Science

STOW & VP CD

VP & Chapt. 1 Reading

Color Sheet

Listen and OM CS

Read Aloud

Wind in the Willows

Chapt. 3

Eli's Schedule

Kai's Schedule

Together

and then we all began our 1st day of school together:

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Comments

Aug. 29, 2007 - hooray

Posted by Onduli

I'm glad your first day was a success! Yes, if I click on the view show button I can go see the pics over at the site. Neat to see your ideas in action - like the fun bag of playdoh etc. Thanks for sharing!

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Aug. 30, 2007 - Hi!

Posted by byourlove1

I love hearing about others first day of school and adventures throughtout the year, I'm glad your day went good. If you have a chance come over and check our fist day out.

Angela

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Aug. 31, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by drewsfamilytx

Great pictures! (I had to click on view show button too see it though).

I love first day of school pictures. We are hoping to start on Monday. I cannot wait! It really does get easier and easier with each year... busier but easier!

By the way, great handwriting! My children are not gifted (yet) with beautiful handwriting. But ugly legible is better than not legible, right?

I hope the rest of the week has gone smoothly for you, too.

Love,
Marsha

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Sep. 3, 2007 - What a great first day!

Posted by angiejmq

I remember homeschooling my little ones (who aren't so little anymore!) when they were that age. How fun! Enjoy them, they get big really quickly.

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Sep. 11, 2007 - Untitled Comment

Posted by loricarr

I tried putting a photobucket slide show on my blog but it wouldn't work. I only got the code. How did you get yours to work?

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