Monday: I already shared our first day of school pictures. I have a couple more from the first day, but was mostly preoccupied with everything else in the moment.
Tuesday: I didn't take many pictures because I forgot, but I did get some of them doing a science activity of sorting and organizing pictures that they cut from old magazines.
One more picture from the day is Samantha with her drawing of Horton Hatches an Egg. She had to listen to the story for her Easy Peasy lesson, and she loved it.
Wednesday: Today was mostly pictures of Samantha starting in her adult coloring book that Cayce wanted to get her and teach her to do. She caught on quick to keep everything the same on the opposite side and she learned that symmetry.
We also started reading Charlotte's Web out loud and the kids LOVE IT! Cayce even laughed a couple times.
While Samantha was doing her art with Cayce, Ariana was working on her reading eggs.
Thursday: I brought back quiet time today. The girls were excited for it. They were starting to burn out and have attitudes on Thursday and Friday.
Ariana learning about odds and evens
Sammy doing her mathseeds on reading eggs.
Friday: I have made a new rule this year that we will only watch movies if they go with what we are doing and it will only be on Fridays at the end of the day. So we had a movie day today and we watched Charlotte's Web. We are halfway done with the book, so they watched the movie and I had them discuss at the end what was similar to the book and what was different. The understood it and they also told me their favorite parts and the parts they hated.
I cannot wait for this week. I even had fun last week and I was stressing the whole week before, actually I think I was stressing all summer about the start of this school year. I am going to try to keep this year fun, so it can go by fast but also be interesting for the kids.
