We’ve successfully started our school year on a positive foot! Captain Science rocked his first day of fifth grade (seriously, am I old enough to have a 5th grader? when did this happen?) and Tank thoroughly enjoyed his first day of homeschooling.
Captain S. woke up at 8 and by the time I was downstairs at 8:15, had his morning chore completed, was dressed, had been on his run, and had eaten breakfast. He filled out his daily schedule, deciding he would do history, grammar review, and then math review. He finished his history chapter, a two page spread on Bronze Age China in History: The Definitive Visual Guide, in under a half-hour, then did a few sentences in Practice Town, which necessitated a brief review of the various phrases, and then did a pass on the final bridge of Life of Fred: Decimals and Percents. He’s gung-ho about starting his new materials and his online classes (which he can on Wednesday, when our Internet is hooked up!).
Tank loves, loves, loves his school work. He did about eight pages on colors in a wipe-off work book and then another five or six pages in a book on opposites. I had to actually cut him off and send him to do some other tasks. I insisted that “block time” was an important part of pre-school and that he needed to go down and play with blocks for a while. We also had a little trampschooling for a while, when I put him on the minitramp for exercise time. I’m going to have to come up with a lot more to do, even when we add in the reading stuff.
All in all, great first day. Go us!