First Day!

Today was our first day of school!

The kids (and I!) were all so excited to jump back into our routine, and we enjoyed our first day back with new books and new plans!  So fun!  

Ella is officially joining us for school this year, focusing on colors, shapes, and letter recognition!

I think Sammy was the most excited to start school today.  In fact, at a couple points of the day, he started crying because I wasn't giving him the next activity fast enough.  He wanted to school ALL day.  So cute.  Such a little lover of learning.

Micah's day was successful, and he enjoyed starting in on multiplication and some other new books!

Our attempt at getting Sophia into the picture.  As you can tell, she was not really wanting to stand still (but does she ever?).  Sophia napped through some of our schooling time and made mischief the rest of the time.

Our new plan: Start the morning with a walk.  This was really nice, and I love how Ella wanted to push her baby in the stroller too.  And notice Sammy...doesn't everyone carry a croquet mallet along for a walk around the block??

Some highlights:  Ella started learning about the color RED, and she colored red things, ate red tomatoes, made a red sticker page, and read red books.  This girl has not been wanting to learn her colors (other than pink and purple) so we'll see how this goes!

Micah and Sammy did a fun Skittles math activity for the first day!  (Thanks, Kim, for the fun idea!)

A couple of other victories from the day:  Sammy read his very first book all by himself.  Actually, he read four!  My goal for Sammy this year is to learn to read, and he is off to a great start with these little BOB books from the library!

And Micah started learning cursive!  I was on the fence about this, but we decided to take the plunge, and he loved it!  Yay!

And lastly, their self portraits from the first day of school.

So thankful for a fun first day!  Excited for many more days of advenure and learning ahead!  

Happy New School Year!!!