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Following a long-established (well, this is only our second year doing this) tradition, here is our first day of school photo:
We began our new school year last Wednesday. Yes, I know that was four school days ago. I'm very behind on my blogging. Sigh. I have tons of photos downloaded and blog entries written in my head about them, but little time to sit down and actually blog. Ah well. The kids seem to be enjoying the school year so far. Well, Daddy called after we finished classes the first day and I was appalled to overhear Claire's end of the conversation: "Yeah, we had school today. It was pretty boring." Gads! They had seemed to enjoy everything we read at the time -- they had lapped up Shakespeare, especially. If nothing else, she could have said something good about A Midsummer Night's Dream! I felt better at dinner, though, when happy reports flew across the table of what they had learned that day. Whew! A successful day at the end! This is Anna's first year as a real student using the AmblesideOnline curriculum. She is very happy to be "official" and enjoys our school time together. Claire gets excited when we bring out her old books. "Oh -- Paddle-to-the-Sea! I loved that one!" or "Just So Stories were my favorites! Can we read the one about the rhinoceros today?" These are statements I hear from Claire all the time now. Anna announced today at dinner that reading was her favorite subject. Funny, since two weeks before school started, I asked her to read something for me and she appeared to struggle. I was disappointed, believing that all our efforts last year were in vain. I don't mind that my children are late readers, but she had seemed to do so well last year, and we took the summer off not by choice but by necessity, so I took this regression hard. So I took out her reading book on the first day and she read through the first story (The Little Red Hen) without stumbling once. Little stinker. She can read. She apparently just didn't feel like reading when I asked her before. Claire seems to be enjoying herself as well. Her favorite subjects so far are Health and Shakespeare. It looks like it's going to be a good year. Audrey and Drew keep each other occupied while I work with Claire and Anna, so in that respect it's already much better than last year. We are spending quite a bit more time on school work than last year, partly because I have two official students this year and partly (gasp!) because we're actually completing everything scheduled. I'm amazed everytime I realize we've checked off every item. That never happened last year. Drew has been a very good baby, but he certainly did make school last year difficult. Thank goodness for a bit of maturity! That's my rambling first-day-of-school post. I'll try to post more often from here on out :-) |
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