First day of school

We had a great morning. ('Cause that's when we're doing school... at least until I change my mind again. LOL!) I took a picture, being slightly jealous of my friends' kids with their adorable first-day-of-school pictures. Not quite the same, since there are no backpacks or nice clothes, but it works. =)

We started by reading How to Make an Apple Pie & See the World. Very cute book - a girl wants to make an apple pie, but the market is closed. Instead, she goes around the world to get the ingredients. One of the ingredients that she needs is salt, so she collects sea water & evaporates the water. Our activity today was to make sea water (the boys agreed that it tasted nasty). We put it into a shallow pan. Now we wait for it to evaporate.

Then we had a math lesson. I'm using Saxon Math for homeschoolers, the kindergarten edition. We filled in our calendar & discussed the day of the week (Monday), the day of the month (the 22nd), the month (September), and the year (2008). We'll be working on the calendar all year, so I am expecting it to take a while to sink into Jimmy's head. It's a pretty complex thing to learn. But so far, so good! Saxon makes it fun with alternating colors for each day (which means we'll also be working on patterns). After the calendar, we played with pattern blocks. Caleb got to join in. They made boats, flowers, houses, trains, and a few unidentifiable objects, LOL!

The last part of our school lessons was Letter of the Week. We're doing the alphabet in order, so this week is the letter A. We have a great book that goes through Bible memory verses by the alphabet. The verse for A is "A soft answer turns away wrath. Proverbs 15:1" So we read the verse & the story that explains it today. We'll work on writing the letter A & memorizing the Bible verse during the rest of the week.

After school, we took a walk around the neighborhood. It's a gorgeous day! I'm considering that part of school, too - PE!