Weekly Wrap Up ~ First Day
Friday
We were scheduled to start next week, but due to a garage sale we are participating in, we won’t be available to do work on Thursday or Friday. To make up for that, we started today. So today is really “Monday” for us! Since I went to a new planning system this year, each of 36 weeks is packed full of work to be done. Thus I laid out the year with weeks totally off like Thanksgiving and Christmas. But on weeks like next week where we had unexpected activities, we either have to make it up somewhere, or let it go. Given the type A in me I tend to lean towards make it up somewhere!
As the early part of the week progressed here, I watched Facebook fill up with pictures of all of our friends starting public school. I decided that maybe I should have First Day of School photos! I went on to make this comment “It is so much fun to see everyone’s first day of school pictures. When we start tomorrow should I take a picture of mine on their first day? Then the question is will they even be out of their pjs?” Well, one of my friends so kindly pointed out (Note the sarcasm!) that my oldest told her they were never allowed to stay in their jammies. She was right! We do get dressed every day as my husband feels it is important. So just for fun we decided (or rather I decided) to keep them in their jammies for their First Day of School pictures and morning work time.
This is our official First Day of School photo. We are in our jammies, in front of our new bookshelf!
This is Chloe working on her new math, Teaching Textbooks Pre Algebra, for the first time.
Ava is doing a calendar unit to begin the year. We are making a page for each month that will include any holidays and family members birthdays. We are starting with July. She included a flag that she colored and a picture of her Aunt Janet, Uncle Christopher and Cousin Kort who have birthdays in July.
Jayden is hard at work on his 7 Reasons for Exploration Book. It is the first activity in a 2 quarter series we are doing on Explorers this year.
September 9, 2011 @ 12:27 pm
Love Jaydens tongue sticking out! I do that too when I am concentrating on something! Great pictures thanks for sharing!
September 9, 2011 @ 2:31 pm
Whoever put those shelves up did a fantastic job!
September 9, 2011 @ 2:33 pm
Ha Ha Joey, very funny! Last time a checked they were still missing sides! 😉
September 9, 2011 @ 7:43 pm
When we started our school year it was on a Friday I think. We had something going on the following week and I knew we wouldn’t get as much done. Love your first day pics. Thanks for linking up to NOBH
September 9, 2011 @ 10:05 pm
This was the first year we did first day pictures. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it in the past. Ha!
Happy first day!
September 10, 2011 @ 12:55 am
Thanks for sharing your first day! Wanted to let you know that our oldest is named Chloe, she loves TT math, & peace signs! Do you know where you purchased those jammy pants? Her favorite color is blue too. She would love to have a pair.
September 10, 2011 @ 8:57 am
Abby, I purchased them at Old Navy at the end of the season this past winter. They are super fuzzy and nice. Not sure if they look blue in the picture but they are actually gray. Yes, she loves peace signs (as well as Ladybugs!).
September 10, 2011 @ 10:13 am
Thanks for sharing pictures of our grandchildren’s first day at school. Seeing the pictures and hearing your stories helps me to feel a part of it. So happy for you and very proud of the grandchildren for making it a fantastic start for the school year.
September 10, 2011 @ 10:18 am
Love the first day photo in their jammies! Sounds like you have an exciting year planned! 🙂
September 10, 2011 @ 11:34 pm
love the First day in their PJs!! We have ours dress every day, too!! More b/c it’s convenient to have everyone already dressed for the day in case we needed to go out or have surprise company… used to NOT care when they all were small… but had many “surprise” visits that caused me to change my ways;)
But it’s cool though b/c it makes a PJ day really special:)
Yay for 1st day pics;)
September 12, 2011 @ 9:37 pm
We just started using Teaching Textbooks this year… Algebra 1. So far it’s AWESOME.