First Day of Homeschool



We started school today, and I think it went really well!  It was a learning process, and there are several things that I will do differently tomorrow.

1. get Anna started on her work before I start with Trin. Trin finished all of her work way before Anna, and was upset that I did not have more for her to do.  She insisted on doing school work until Anna was finished with all of hers.  That meant she got to work on the ipad for a long time.  That made her happy.

2.  Tomorrow, Mason will not be confined to the same room that we are in.  I'm putting a gate on the stairs, and closing all the doors so that he has free roam.  He had the whole room torn apart, and the door to the play kitchen broke off in about 10 minutes.  (My girls never broke anything, and it seems my boys break/broke everything.  Why is that?)

3.  I will not decide that the game of Memory will be a good idea to break up the work schedule.  The game took forever, and we ended up not even finishing.  Trinity won, so she was just fine stopping the game. :)

4. I will pre read Anna's spelling book, so that I don't look silly when I don't understand the book at all. That way, I can make sure we finish start the lesson. ;)

Here are a few pictures from the day.  These were taken on my phone, so they are not the best quality.  The lighting in the school room doesn't photograph well.  The pink curtains throw it off.



One of my favorite moments from today:

Trinity: Miss Teacher?

Me: yes, Neen?

Anna: You don't have to call her that.  You can still call her Mom, you know.

Trinity: Well, right now she is teaching us, so I will call her Mom.

Anna: Well, she's been teaching us our whole life.  She's always been our teacher.

TRUTH...right there folks.  The kind that makes you cry!

We also all had a good laugh at lunch today when Mason tried on Anna's glasses.  Doesn't he look just like Chicken Little! Hilarious!

I hope all of your kiddos have a blessed first day of school!