Our First Day Of School Fall 2011

Today started with everyone waking up late, mom feeling yucky do to a cold or allergies (not sure which just not fun), and no breakfast cereal in the house.  Do to allergies cereal is mostly what the kids eat for breakfast is cereal I make other things but they don't always eat it.  Anyway then it took 2 hours to get dressed and chores done because we didn't want to do them.  (Nothing new around here.)  I went to the store after my husband got off work at 9 am so I could get cereal and stickers we needed to decorate the school boxes.  I got back by 10 but they were still finishing chores.  Finally at 10:30 we had scripture and prayer (we skipped a morning song just to get they day going)  the were to excited about the school boxes to actually listen at scripture time but we made it through.
Here are them decorating their pencil/marker/crayon/everything boxes

Everyone had fun decorating their boxes.  The preschoolers have one box to share and they did decorate it but it was later and I failed to get a picture.
After school boxes we got Phonics done/reading, then math, and handwriting.  In that time we also had lunch. Do to slow starts and schedule changes (swim lessons then swim lessons canceled do to rain) we skipped spelling and first language lessons)
But we did lots of art projects.  Everyone got three blank pages to create.  Next I printed off some color, cut, and paste school houses.  They created them how they wanted then they each wrote in their journals about their school: what they would name it, what they would learn, etc.  They had a ton of fun.  Even with a rough start we had a great first day.

These are their schools.
After school for a snack (which I made during lunch) Fruity Pebble Treats.

Here is Mr. Man because we couldn't forget about him although I never had the camera ready when he was doing school things.

And that was our first day of homeschool this school year!  Tomorrow I go with my mom and my girls to the American girl school for the opening of two new dolls.  I have never done anything like this but it sounds so fun!