First Official Day of School

Today my two older boys go to the homeschool tutorial center for their first day of classes. They’ll be taking state history, Shurley grammar 6, study hall and American Sign Language. They will be in the same classes even though one is in 4th and the other in 6th grade. I know they’ll do great. My biggest concern is that they’ll get sick of each other being in the same classes together, but I’m stressing that they need to stick together and take care of each other.

Grace will be at preschool and Timmy and I will dive into curriculum. Saxon phonics 1 and Math 1. He’s a very smart boy, but reluctant to sit and do work. I’m praying this year will be easier, and I won’t have to chase him around the house or bribe him too much:)

My school room is fairly organized except for my desk. But I can live with it a couple more days. So here’s to the first full day of school!

Say a prayer!

UPDATED!

Thanks to everyone for your encouagement. We had a GREAT first official day. I guess it helped that I only had one kid at home. 🙂

But Timmy and I were able to breeze through 15 chapters of Phonics and math. It was all review so I didn’t feel putting him through tedious lessons of things he already knew were necessary, no matter how much the curriculum tells you to follow it exactly!

Anyway, today was our BIG sit down lesson day. The rest of the week will be filled with more hands on phonics and math.

Chris and Joey really enjoyed their classes, though they said they didn’t understand their grammar homework. I’ll have to take a look at it tomorrow.

We’ve all been on a pretty good schedule during the day and my computer time is definitely down, but I still can’t manage to wake up early enough to get in exercise or a decent quiet time. But I’m not worried. It will come. Hey, today after I dropped Chris off at musical theatre class I went to the gym and did the elliptical for 23 minutes, and I felt it working! That’s a really good thing!