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Day one, done!

Of course, we began the morning with the traditional First-Day-of-School Pictures: 
Here's Buggy with his awesome mohawk:

And Punky, also with a mohawk:

They talked me into the mohawks about a month ago, and I have informed them several times that this is a benefit of home schooling. If they were headed out the door to a school room with a teacher and other children that I would have never let them sport that style!

Beginning our morning. Don't they look thrilled?!

After Keil led us in a prayer, we called all 4 of the kiddos to the school table to talk about the date, the weather, and to listen to our hymn.

 We had a great morning, and the boys really loved our new curriculum. They are both working together in Bigger Hearts for His Glory.  Punky is a 4th grader, and Buggy is in 2nd, so they will be doing English (Rod & Staff) and Math (Singapore) separately. I also ordered an extension package for History and Science for Punky. The one thing the boys were a bit hesitant about was the Poetry lesson, but once we got into it they admitted it really wasn't so bad. 

Here they are doing the copywork from the poem. 

See, no looks of horror and torture! Win!

And finally, just to prove yesterday's post about being prepared, I took a couple of pictures of our classroom. Our basement is totally unfinished, but I'm making the best of it!

The library:

Our bulletin board. Isn't it fancy?!

And, our classroom:

Oh, and, no, I didn't buy all those bulletin board decorations and banners. When prioritizing the budget (as I'm sure is true with most home school families) curriculum is first and usually last on the list. We were so blessed to receive a local FreeCycle (check out Yahoo groups to find yours!) offer from a former teacher who was giving away a barn full of books, bulletin boards, file folder games, and tons of other educational games and tools! Over half the books on our shelves are from her, and many of them were on our curriculum reading lists!


Okay, that was day one. Day two was supposed to start 3 minutes ago, and I'm still blogging. Have a great day!!