Well, it’s finally here. The first day of school! (I’ll have pictures later). Seth has been walking around the house all morning singing, “It’s time for school! It’s time for school!” and laughing his head off. Not that he has any idea what school is, but he knows it has something to do with all of the pencils and notebooks and crayons that are awaiting us on the dining room table. And he can’t wait to get his hands on it all!
Elijah is dragging himself out of bed like the tweener he is. Kait and the other two boys were up early and are eagerly anticipating what we’ll do today. Noah has a great big write-on/wipe-off book that he’ll get to use today. Kait will have worksheets with Math and Science and History. And she’ll read - something she’s already gotten a jump start on. Last night, we thought she was outside with her friends, but instead she was up in her room “practice reading” for school today. Elijah will start an intensive reading program to see if we can get him where he’s supposed to be. Now that his reading is really improved, we’re going to get him caught up. If he’s not caught up by Christmas, we’ll be getting him a tutor for the second half of the school year. But he’s excited to start things like math, science and history again. He loves those subjects!
So, the teacher - yours truly - will drink another cup of coffee to prepare herself for general silliness on this first day and we’ll get started! Got to love the first day of school!
Elijah hard at work on his spelling…
Kait - loving the first day of school…
Noah hardly working…
Not everyone was too happy about school. Seth was rather sad when his playmates had to sit down and work instead of playing with him…
But cheered up once they got him involved in the fun…
awww…you make me miss homeschooling! I think I was always just excited about new school books and supplies as the kids were…but wait…I just realized…I am home from work on my lunch break and all my kids are at public school (today was their first day back too!) and it is REALLY quiet and peaceful around here!! Ok, don’t miss it anymore! Have a great school year! (and so will I)
If I could do school work on a bed I would be sleeeeeeping! We are about to start back after 5 days off and I am ready.
Awww… poor Seth…!!