Today was our first day of this school year! And I'm feeling much better, thankfully! Unfortunately, I think Quinn is catching my cold now.

We had a fun day and managed to get a lot of work done. Riley was proud of herself and even thanked God at her dinner prayer for a "fun day of school" and prayed for a good week of school this week. We started with Animals and Their Worlds - here is a photo of some of the books we are using this year.

We studied animals with exoskeletons today. In addition to that for science, we also fit in handwriting (Riley is getting much better at this(!) and Quinn practiced a few letters), math, Bible, art, language arts and reading. I did some reading to the kids for their read-alouds, and Riley did some independent reading to Quinn and me as well. The only thing I'm hoping will improve is that we will do more hands-on projects. It looks like we will hit more as time goes on. We spent about 2 1/2 hours on school today, and celebrated our first day of school with a trip to TCBY after school!

Brad came home from work for just a bit this morning when we started school. He brought an apple for the teacher.  Sweet guy. And spent some time talking to the kids about school before heading back to work.

Here are some more pictures from our first day - enjoy!