First Day of School! First Day of School!

Why Home Schooling Rocks, Reason #372: You can dress up as a pirate for your school day and say, "Argh!" when a math problem isn't going the way you were hoping.

Today, H officially started the first grade!  R also started his second year of medical school, and A had his official first day of “we have no idea what grade you are in, but let’s do some math and science and a bunch of other fun stuff.”

We are a homeschooling family.  I have yet to mention anything of this in our blog, mostly because I was hoping to start a whole separate blog devoted towards our school, curricula choices and reviews of those choices, schedules, lessons learned, and anything else that might prove beneficial to those interested in homeschooling or learning more about how we spend our days.  However, time waits for no man, even procrastinating stay at home moms who can’t seem to figure out which way is up some days, and on other days reupholsters a dining room chair.  And just because I didn’t make a home school blog doesn’t mean that we skip announcing the kid’s first day of school!

I learned two things today: 1.) There is a reason why public schools give kids a bit of a review at the beginning of the school year.  We attempted to jump right back into math where we left off in June, and, well, yeah.  That wasn’t the best idea.  H even told me with her eyes as wide as saucers: “But Mom, during ALL of this summer when I WASN’T doing math, I was learning other things.  They took the spot where the math things were.”  2.)  Singing hymns with my kids is pretty awesome.

Being tough. Just like a pirate. Her choice of picture pose and words.

Aside from Christmas carols, I never thought singing hymns was something we would like and I personally thought I would feel uncomfortable and out of place.  Heck no, techno!  H came over and hugged me while we sang (along with you-tube..thank you technology because if there was no one else singing we would have sounded like a bunch of howling cats), A laid his head on my lap, S continued playing with his little toys, and E was looking around taking it all in.  It was heavenly.

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