First Day of School

With the older kids back in school it makes it a lot easier to organize and do activities with my little girls.  We do things all the time, but it can be a challenge to manage everyone at the same time especially since they are at such different levels.  Today though was the start of a great home school year at home too!

We started out with this Alphabet Cookie Game... C can identify some letters, and we worked on the others, as well as their sounds and words that start with each letter.

After that we stuck with the alphabet theme and got our wiggles out before lunch by going through the alphabet and doing actions for animals for each letter.  This was a lot of fun, and we ended up with a herd of zebra heading to the bathroom to wash up for lunch.

C was done with lunch before her younger sister, so she helped in the kitchen baking brownies for a special first day of school, after school snack.  Once those were in the oven it was on to reading time.  It was nice to be able to sit on the couch and read Dr. Seuss' There's a Wocket in my Pocket without interruptions form older kids who needed something!

I then put on a reading learning DVD for them while I got caught up with the lunch and brownie making dishes, and got some laundry started.  Now it's time for some coloring pages, and then we're heading to pick up the older kids from school!

I'm hoping I can find some time soon to go back and blog about some of the things we did at the end of summer.  We had an awesome astronomy lesson linked to out visit to the Lowell Observatory that we called a Star Party, and had a really fun time learning more about that.. I still have some activities left from that that I'm looking forward to getting done soon with the kids as well!