He woke up and waited in my room until I was ready and dressed, and then he went and got his outfit on and backpack. (He was so good about waiting and not going downstairs to peak). First, we went outside to take some pictures, and then we came back inside to do more pictures and explore the new school area and kitchen. He was SUPER excited about it all! This made me so happy!
He's so proud of his new Avenger backpack, and he wouldn't let me not take a picture of it!
Going into school! ;)
Jaden and Max!
Cory had this great idea to "drive" Jaden to "school". Jaden said "I'm already at school, Dad!" But, we finally got Jaden to go into the car, and he kept asking "Is this for real?". Cory just drove him around the block, and brought him back, and he had so much fun doing this! He was ALL smiles.
We had Chocolate Chip Pancakes for breakfast!
While I was cleaning up, we had about 30 minutes before school started, so he sat down on the floor and looked through his new backpack with the binders that he is to bring with him everyday to school and his new Avengers pencil case, that he loaded with new pencils, scissors, glue stick and dry erase marker. We have all of the other school supplies in our little table top spinner in the school area. I seriously just loved his excitement about today!
Since today was the first day of school, we didn't get into any curriculum or core things at all. We just worked on a lapbook that told all about him! With this, he was still getting practice with spelling, sounding out letters, critically thinking about answers, coloring, cutting, and all that good stuff. He LOVED doing this, and we lasted the entire day! I wasn't sure about his attention with this one thing, but since it was very involved he did great! I have a daily schedule that we are going to be testing once we get into our regular schedule with english, math, science, music, art, health, and religion. I definitely have more of a schedule than I did last year, but I continue having the heart of flexibility...because honestly, schedules are more of a guideline that will most likely be broken more often than not :).
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Looking through his lapbook for answers to the All About Me worksheet that he was doing. Some questions repeated themselves, and the ones that we already answered for the lapbook, he was able to recognize and search for the answer and copy that down on the worksheet! He was very focused.. :)
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We had our lunch break from 12-1245 (this gives him time to eat and play a little with Max...kind of like a recess, I guess). He picked out a lunchbox, and was so excited to be able to use it. I packed it last night, and PLAN to do that every night...so hopefully I can stay on top of things and keep this up! He was thrilled to be able to grab his lunch box, sit down, open it up for surprises, and eat it. I just had so much fun today with him!
Today was a great day, especially when Jaden said, "Can we do this again tomorrow? This is the best first day of school."...It was a fantastic start to a new year...but don't worry, I've been doing this for a year (still not very long I know), and I'm definitely not oblivious to the challenges of Homeschooling...some days are just not gonna happen, but those that do happen are going to be great. I am so thankful that Jaden is so happy and willing to learn from me and enjoys it! I'll take this as long as I can get it :). I love homeschooling him, and I can't wait for Jenna to get here and one day add her to the "class"!
