First day well done!

 

The first day of school has come and gone.  The notebooks, books, and binders are back on the shelves and ready for tomorrow …thank goodness all is corrected! 

And I didn’t even raise my voice today -- at all.  A few tense morning moments occurred when the busy toddler rode his noisy musical zebra into the schoolroom, but after a couple times I remembered ‘the toddler boxes’.  Louis played with elbow macaroni noodles, a measuring spoon and a cup the rest of the morning.

Pictures taken the night before.

As I’m a planner, I did lay out a plan for today.  The difference is that this year Eric and I talked to the kids about the plan last night.  This helped very much!

We’d all eaten breakfast, dressed, and had time for reading the paper and doing a few chores before our 7:40am rosary time.  The rosary went well.  Louis played quietly, and Graham has really grown up a lot over the past year because he’s now able to sit quietly.  I actually had the hardest time because my head and thinking are fuzzied up by allergies right now.  This has just been a nasty year and nothing seems to help for long.

By 8am, we were ready for pictures, Schultutes, and measuring (height and weight).  I saved the poster-board schultutes from last year and just used new tissue.  Easy – peasy.  The kids loved getting new school supplies, a few rare fruit treats, and one snack-sized candy bar.

We officially started lessons at 9am.  Everyone, but the high-schooler finished by noon (we expected this outcome and I had prepared Dash for more work). 

The Freshman:

The Sixth grader:

The Third grader:

The Kindergartener:

The Toddler:

Other photos from today:

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We ended the day with a JV football home game.  The Loboes won 22-0.  Dash now plays guard and is #66.

He’s at the right edge of the bottom photo.