Our First Day of School August 25th 2011

We weren't going to start school until Monday, but the girls really wanted to start, so we started today! Everyone was so excited! We started with taking pictures of everyone.

Then we said The Lord's Prayer and followed with the Pledge of Allegiance. One person each day will get to hold the flag while we say the Pledge but I forgot to take pictures of that today. Then we moved on to the Calendar time

After we spelled out the month and the days and we did music from www.abcjesuslovesme.com We did music for Days of the Week and then we moved on and I let them sing and dance to This is the Day and Deep and Wide

Then we read some Bible Stories and I decided to let them have a snack, so I firgured that since we were doing Creation and it was the first day, I would try to do something really exciting! Since I didn't plan on starting school today, I didn't have mini oreos like someone else had suggested for light and dark, so I had the bright idea that we would have icecream sandwiches because I knew we had them in the freezer, so I sat the kids down and went over the lesson again and said what are our colors again? RIGHT! Black and White! What did God create on the first day? RIGHT! Day and Night so we are going to have icecream sandwiches to go with our colors and the white for day and the chocolate for night- Then there is a bunch of screaming and they are so excited and they run to the table and I open the freezer and guess what????????????????? Dad ate them all! Oh No! So he is sitting at the computer the whole time not saying anything, and I say Honey, did you eat all the icecream sandwiches? He says yea why? So we ended up having popcorn with a little yellow on it and a pc. of Hershey's candy leftover from S'mores

Then we colored on our Apple Tree for today and Blake really didn't want to do this project as you can see in the picture

This is how many apples went in the tree today and the girls loved how I wrote on the poster and hung it at their level, they were singing this all day and tracing the poster with their fingers

The last thing we did was make the planet earth, the kids loved making this

We ended the night with the kids reading by themselves before bed and then after I put them to bed I canned some spaghetti sauce!