First Day of School

Typing this up during quiet/nap/reading time:
James and I still have math and French scheduled this afternoon, but Sean is done for the day and James should be finished by the time Chris wakes up from his nap.

I was worried about the logistics of school with two and a toddler, but if today is any indication, we are looking at the start of a successful school year. (Aren't I optimistic?!)

After breakfast and prayers, we managed to begin (on time no less) with circle time. I put together a calendar board. And yes, it would look better if I hung it on the wall, but I need to slip it out of sight during the day because Christopher can't keep his hands off of it.

We go over the calendar and have songs for the days of week, months of the year, and the weather. There are removable cards for the weather, days, and seasons. I realized after we started that the calendar printout for the month said 2010. :-/ I'll have to fix that! Luckily I have a card there with the correct year.



















The cards on the right hand side are: the character card we are working on from We Choose Virtues, and our memory work from the Memoria Press K program. We also sang a couple of active songs to get out the wiggles before we sat down for some seat work.



















Chris sat with us for awhile and colored, snacked, and did a few fine motor activities. Here he is dropping toothpicks into a spice shaker.


















And feeding the frog pasta shapes.


















Sean is learning about liquids, solids, and gasses this week. We melted crayons into liquid and then let it harden back into a solid. It was our first semi-fail of a science project this year(of which I am sure there will be many more) I used cheap crayons because I did not want to melt my nice beeswax crayons, and the consistency was never quite a liquid and the end result chunky. Not worried about it though, the rest of the lesson went well and he still had fun.



















Once Sean finished up his seatwork we put on this weeks music selection, "William Tell Overture", and the little boys danced(ran) around the living room. We looked at and talked about the Mona Lisa, and then read The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. I love that these are laid out in the curriculum guide, along with the memory work and poetry.

Now off to finish the not so fun stuff with the oldest...