All summer I have been planning an
exciting back to school day for Olivia, usually we just start school but this
year since we are going into first grade I wanted back to school to be a
celebration. We talked about it all week and we
were both super excited when the day finally arrived.
We started back to school last week and it was
a hit. I think that we are going to have
our best homeschool year yet. We started
off our morning with a very short photo session Olivia was not to into it so
she only let me snap a few pictures. Then we put her daily calendar activities
into the binder that she got to pick out.
Then we decorated her math binder
*stickers really are all we need to have a good day*
Olivia’s favorite thing of the day
was making an abacus. It really was a lot of fun, and super easy all we used
was beads kabob sticks and big popsicle sticks.
We also had our first trip to the
library her eyes lit up when she saw all the books everywhere. I showed her how
to pull out the books where she would know where to put them back if she looked
at it and decided she did not want to take it home. We went over the library
etiquette and Olivia was able to get her very own library card.
There was
one more activity sheet that I created and intended to do, it was a first day
of school questionnaire, but my computer got a virus and I could not get it
printed out so I guess I will turn it into a “whoohoo I am 6 questionnaire”.
Since we practically do school year round I think that celebrating
the first day of a new school year is a good way to start fresh, and I can not wait
to keep this tradition going and growing.
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| Edward enjoys doing school with us as well |
What kind of things do you do to make going back to school fun for you and your kids?
