First day

Our first day was pretty good. Of course it is always hard starting a new routine, but they did great!

We started after breakfast with our language lessons which consist of Spelling , grammer, creative writing and phonics- spending about 10 minutes on each subject. After that we moved to History where he is studying Ancient China, truly a favorite around here.

We saved math for last, mostly reviewing what we covered last year. Basic addition and subtration, counting by 10's and writing numbers to 20.

So while I spent this time with Avery (which took only about 2 1/2 hours) Emile played with play dough and colored with his new Dr. Seuss markers. He did pretty good giving Avery his space (I was a bit nervous), but his volume seems to increase when he doesn't have all of the attention. We shall see how this evolves. I kept it simple to begin with. No hands on activities today or messy projects yet. I just want to get our routine down then we can have a bit more fun.