Kaitlyn officially started second grade last week as we continued our adventures in homeschooling. We've made some major changes in how we are running our little school and after a challenging year in first grade trying to figure it out, we are going back to the style we used in Kinder. Relaxed! I learned a lot about myself as a home educator last year and about how my daughter learns best and about how best to be her teacher. That's another post for another day...if I get around to it. She has an amazing love of learning and reading and I am so blessed to be her teacher. I am learning a lot with her as well and am finding true joy in being a homeschooling momma. I am sure we will still have some speed bumps along the way, but I just know it's going to be an awesome year!
Ryan started his first day back at Mission Baptist Academy as a big pre-K-4 student. We can't believe how much he grew this summer! He was so excited to start school with Ms. O'Hara as his teacher and spend 4 mornings a week with his little 4 year old buddies. Here are some first day of school pictures for you to enjoy.
Kaitlyn's school day started with handwriting/letter formation practice in the shower with shaving cream and continued with some spelling practice as we played Appletters at Starbucks over a fancy coffee drink for me, a strawberry milk for her, and a doughnut for each of us. I can assure you that the treats at Starbucks are not part of our everyday homeschooling routine, though the creative learning is. ;) Next we headed over to Sophie's for some independent work and our last hair appointments before our awesome stylist takes a couple of months off to have a baby. Here's a picture of our spelling...taking and posting pictures of our handwriting would have been wildly inappropriate! ;)
