First Day of School

We've been counting down to this day with a lot of anticipation and it has finally arrived.

Our first day of school was a lot of fun.  The first few weeks of school in any curriculum tends to be basic review so I decided to add some fun review games to make it more fun.  Obviously, the kids enjoyed it.  Hudson and the twins played a review game with our colors.  I would call a name and a color.  When your name is called, you get to find the color paintbrush and match it to the paint bucket.  The little ones thought this was great fun. 

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom is one of our favorite books.   We listened to the audiobook version and Hudson played a letter matching game that goes with the book.  The coconut trees have upper or lower case letters printed on them.  Hudson had a bag of coconuts with the coordinating upper or lower case letters on them to match to the trees.

We started our numbers study with a fun book about the number zero and a counting review.  We also reviewed how to read a calendar and started our weather graphing chart..

After beginning our science study of insects, Josh and Joy reviewed sentences with a fun capitalization pocket chart game.  We had fun reading a few of our new readers together and I am thrilled with Joy's improvement over the summer.  We are going to have three awesome readers this year.  Overall, the Lord blessed us with an amazing first day of school.