First day of school! It's a little earlier than we're used to :)
Garner was so excited to have some work of her own. Working on learning letters this year...
Blows my mind that he is in 3rd grade...
Greer's time with Garner usually includes a little teaching and some girly play with babies or dressups. They matched fruits this day :)
The girly way to practice kindergarten spelling words :)
Gehrig reads Greer her read-alouds each day while I work
Around day 3, I remembered that I didn't take the traditional first-day-of-school pics. So, officially... Gehrig starts 3rd grade and Greer starts Kindergarten. I'm so thankful I get to go with them to school every day!
Stamping and dotting As
And matching colors...
Melting into silliness...not sure there's a sight better than this :)
We didn't really know where we would all end up sitting, but it looks like it will mostly be in the dining room to have a table space big enough for more students now. So thankful to have it and the schoolroom too for some work, play and storage.
We started Veritas history this year and the kids LOVE it! They beg to do multiple lessons every day.
Girl time with counting bears while Gehr and I work...
So fun to play with old-school felt boards from Bebe...
Garner-Bug matching bugs while Greer works on her calendar notebook...
All I know about preschool time, I've learned from Jenn and her favorite homeschool blogs. Love these trays and Garner loves seeing what she has each day!
Gehrig can't wait for his time with Garner every day :)
Greer squeezed in for a pic too...what a blessing to be home with them! Makes me stop to give thanks.
We also copied the calendar notebook that Jenn put together for Madi last year. It is one of Greer's favorite part of the day! A couple fun parts of it... she counts the days of school using place-value (yay for my love of math!) and draws a picture of whatever she wants each day. So thankful I will always have it to look back at.
We weren't even awake by this time each day last year ;)
Another fave activity this year is the bigs' thankful journal time. Gehrig's has a lot of mentions of sports and friends and animals, while Greer's is more abstract and girly...swirls, designs, hearts, love, etc. And then fun entries like this too:
Learning to cut and sorting poms...
All 3 have loved co-op so far, with Gehrig getting more into bigtime work, Greer moving upstairs for elementary and Garner being happy as long as someone is reading her a book :)
Sending love to Daddy one morning
And what Gehr chose for the mammals section of his co-op animal notebook... I was thinking "bear, monkey, whale..." And why is a golden lion tamarin not a lion at all, but a monkey? :)
Sweet Bug started 2yo preschool...
Went straight for the books...it's her comfort
Brain hat from MayMay's fun body class at co-op...
And what most days look like...good working and learning and a little football reading close by...
But we do have some that are tough too...when we have to keep going when we don't feel like it and lose play privileges for not working hard. Always praying that we balance it all well and thankful that we get to work through these life lessons together, learning that His grace is sufficient for all our weakness!
Never planned on homeschooling or even being home full-time, but am so thankful that He did. I've never loved a job more. His ways are always higher :))
