First Day of School

Ah, the plans we make! Today was our first day of school. We were supposed to get started at 9am this morning. That was my goal. Of course, best laid plans and all, Lucy had her own ideas. She went to sleep all nice and sweet by 8pm last night, yes! Or so I thought. One of the disadvantages of our amazing new house is that I don't hear when she cries if we are watching TV. What's that you say? Use a monitor? Yes. I know. I have it right here on the counter. Or most of it. I'm too stubborn to buy a new one. At any rate, it should turn up. Somewhere. So, I didn't hear her fast enough and she was awake. Yes, my baby had now taken a 2 hour nap. At night. Awesomeness. After a Wonder Pets marathon, at 1am I told her I simply had to go to bed. We could watch in my room (and I could doze). After some convincing, she came up with me, settled, and we watched more Wonder Pets. She curled up in the rocker at one point to sleep, but didn't. Then asked me for a pillow. Then she made a bed on the floor. Then, finally, at about 3am (!!) she crawled into bed next to me. I slept til 8:45 (so no school at 9 lol) and she slept til...10:45!!!

We sat down to start around 11am, and it went pretty well. We are excited to study early American History, especially because we are living so close to the actual locations for our early history. In case anyone is interested, we will be studying the following this year:

Together:
American Story 1
La Clase Divertida Spanish
Song School Latin
Handwriting Without Tears Cursive

Lillian, first grade:
First Language Lessons 1
Handwriting Without Tears, print
All About Spelling
Rightstart Math B

Mickade, third grade:
First Language Lessons 3
All About Spelling
Math Mammoth 3
Writing With Ease 2

We also have an awesome homeschool coop we're going to start attending once a week called Renaissance School of the Arts for art, music, and other creative classes. It's going to be a great year!!!

I presented the kids with some Native American "crowns" to kick off the new school year. We will have a big focus on Native American history this year.





Rocking out with La Clase Divertida, as they act out and sing along learning los vocales in Espanol (the vowels in Spanish.)