We Survived the First Day!

After months of fretting and stressing about how I was going to facilitate educating the children at home this year, I am please report that it went well! WOW! We are through our very first day and the only tears that were shed were mine. Tears of joy of course.
Sweet Emily was struggling with her math today; she had to spell out several large numbers. Though her first attempt was a good one, there were many misspelled numbers. She was not happy about having to redo them. With a little encouragement she agreed to try one more time. When I came back down to check on her, to my delight, it was perfect! She did it!!! And, her handwriting was beautiful too. I could not have asked for a better effort. She literally brought tears to her mother's eyes. What a journey this year is going to be. Emily's thoughts about her first day of homeshool, "How FUN this is going to be - I am so excited!"
Miss Alyssa finished her first day of school with ease. She had no trouble with kindergarten what so ever. She is spending time in our reading corner enjoying a book from Mrs. Darbie "The Night Before Kindergarten."  Alyssa's thoughts about homeschool are "I love it!"

What is Michael doing through all of this?  He spent his morning at the table with girls working on his lacing letters.  He is learning the letter Ss and all about the sun and creation of earth.  He has a much shorter day than the girls, so he gets a lot more hang out time.  Michael says, "I like playin' trains!" Well, not really school-related but at least he does keep busy and has fun while the rest of us work on school.  




Thankfully, our newest addition AJ spent a good part of the morning enjoying his morning nap.  He is such an easy-going guy.  I could never get through the day if he was fussy and irritable.  Thankfully, he had a wonderful day, even with teething.  If every day goes as well as today we will be just fine