First Week of School

I couldn't have asked for a better first week of school. The kids were so great and excited every day and it was so much fun doing the different activities with them.

Day 1

Christopher was so excited for school to start and was waiting outside for his friends to come.

We started off by learning the morning routine:
The Learning Box, Calendar and Weather.
They caught on to the songs quickly.

Then we went on a hunt through the house for the color red. They were very good at finding the things I had placed all around and had fun singing about them later.

Talked about our names, tried to recognize which one was theirs and write/trace them. There was some funny talk about determining how girls felt about boys (and vice versa) by the way they were coloring them on the picture. Thank you Ryan! It made me laugh.

I was so impressed with the patience and preciseness of the kids while they traced their name with lentils.
Christopher was grateful I shortened his name though. We call him Christopher, but for things like this feel free to shorten it to Chris. :)

We read a fun book all about our Eyes, Nose Mouth and Toes and more! We all had lots of fun doing all the actions of the book. We read this book every day.

We were supposed to trace ourselves outside with chalk, but since my LARGE box of chalk has disintegrated all over the neighborhood, we opted to trace our heads on this paper. I liked it better anyway. More permanent.

These girls are so cute with their creative free play time. Lot's of tea parties and horse riding and playing house.
Sometimes they even got the boys to play house, though they were always "at work" with Legos and cars.

Some fun letter and face cookies in the shape of a circle.
I love Eisley's face.

We had some fun balloon play, trying to hit the balloons with our elbows, heads, feet, etc.

On Thursday we learned about circles!! They had fun doing actions in, on, near, around, far from the circle.

For snack we had a variety. We sorted out what was circles, and what wasn't. We also discovered that all the circle snacks were in blue bowls and the non circles were in red bowls!

Hooray for circles! And hooray for an awesome first week of school!