FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!
Summer school was fun—lots of swimming, playing outside, gardening, and so forth.
Now, it’s time to get serious.
Mommy has schedules! And plans! and lessons!
I woke up this morning almost as excited as I would have been if it had been my OWN first day of school for the new school year…I LOVE LEARNING!!!
First things first, our Gospel lesson. I’m dissecting one primary lesson per week into smaller bites for our Gospel lesson time. The boys were very attentive:
Okay, I had a cool pen. They were distracted by the cool pen. We had to examine the cool pen thoroughly before we could move on with any of the learning I’d planned:
However, by the time they were done checking out the pen, Galoot had broke through the baby barrier and joined us on the table for our Calendar time (we learned about seasons, months, dates, and weather all at once. It may have been a little much.):
Giant filled in the temperature of the day:
Then the sneaky kid started reading the words from our alphabet book:
After our Calendar time, it was Independent Play. Giant made paper airplanes:
And I started cleaning the kitchen. However, I was shortly joined by boys wishing to bake. At first I said no (too much mess, lack of control, I had other plans, etc). But I have a goal to become more patient with my boys in the kitchen. So, they baked. I cleaned and lent advice. It went amazingly well!:
They even did their dishes too, of course!
While waiting for the cakes to bake (to celebrate back to school of course!) the boys played with trains:
…and looked very cute. Dang I love my boys!:
Cakes baked and cooled. The boys had a finger-liking good time icing it with strawberry icing (they love pink!):
After lunch, we, along with Daddy, took turns saying things we were excited to learn about (Giant-fixing cars, Ettin-eating cake 😉 ) and added candies to the boys’ side of the cake:
Of course Galoot got some too!
We read stories before naps. Giant reads me one first and then I read him one:
After little boys were napping, we looked at history:
And then Giant really wanted to look at maps. But first, in order to get the laptop working, a quick lesson in laptop battery care (Giant switched the batteries for me):
…and we found different continents and countries for a while:
After Ettin woke up, they boys played with playmobile:
And quickly became knights themselves. Giant needed a knight flag (“niT FLAeG”)
…and so did Ettin (lots of “o”s):
—I think it’s terribly cute that they did not ask for swords, but flags. Oh, and Giant needed to save a sad Grandma—she missed her grandkids, you see. He brought them to her 🙂 We’ll see how long this peaceful knighthood lasts before things get a bit more violent!