First Day of Homeschool!
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Walking to School
We started the day by walking to school. We left the house and walked around the block. I thought this would be a cute idea. It would get our blood moving and let us feel like we left home. Our block is enormous, so it took us almost 40 minutes. After about 10 minutes of walking the kids let me know they thought it was the most ridiculous idea I ever had. Gracy said, "Tomorrow, let's take the car to school". I hate when my sarcasm comes back at me in the voice of my child.
Registration & Orientation
After we arrived at school, we went immediately to registration and orientation where we went over our anticipated schedule and set up our weekly one on one meetings. We made a list of places that might be less crowded now that other kids are in school, and discussed things the girls want to make sure they learn about this year, and what their biggest fear about homeschooling is. This of course brought a few tears from Gracy. She's still concerned about her friends from school. Even though she's seen them pretty regularly. I remember all the tears I cried when we moved when I was about her age. We only moved to the next town over, but it might as well have been a different state in my mind. Fortunately things looked better, as I'm sure they will with Gracy. She'll soon get used to the idea of seeing her friends outside of school instead of talking her way through the day.
School Identity
Next, we created a school identity. We'd like to introduce: The Lighthouse Academy
Colors: Yellow and Black (taken from our family crest)
Mascot: Swordfish
We started making letterhead, student ID's, and T-shirts. We paid for the download of a tuff lookin' Swordfish from istockphoto, but I can't figure out how to open it...so we had to put that project on hold. (If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know!)
School Pictures
We made a trip to the local Walmart picture people to get some cheapy/cheesy school photos taken. Then they tried to scam me. They actually tried to sell me a $200+ package AT WALMART! Seriously! If I wanted to spend that kind of money I would have gone to a REAL photographer! They insisted the cheapest package they had was $79. I asked about the sign that read $4.99. They told me it was company policy to only allow one of those packages per person per day. So, I told them that had to be the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard, took my kidos and left. Apparently they thought I was an idiot with too much money on my hands.
We went home and took our own photos. Their not the best, but certainly better than $79 for each of them!
Maggie's a 5th Grader all ready!
Can you believe Gracy is in 6th Grade?!
We took a copy of our new school pictures and put together a scrap book page to kickstart the yearbook. They turned out SO cute!
Here We Go!
So tomorrow starts homeschool with school work. I think they are secretly looking forward to it. Gracy just picked out her outfit for tomorrow, and Maggie is getting giggly.
We started the day by walking to school. We left the house and walked around the block. I thought this would be a cute idea. It would get our blood moving and let us feel like we left home. Our block is enormous, so it took us almost 40 minutes. After about 10 minutes of walking the kids let me know they thought it was the most ridiculous idea I ever had. Gracy said, "Tomorrow, let's take the car to school". I hate when my sarcasm comes back at me in the voice of my child.
Registration & Orientation
After we arrived at school, we went immediately to registration and orientation where we went over our anticipated schedule and set up our weekly one on one meetings. We made a list of places that might be less crowded now that other kids are in school, and discussed things the girls want to make sure they learn about this year, and what their biggest fear about homeschooling is. This of course brought a few tears from Gracy. She's still concerned about her friends from school. Even though she's seen them pretty regularly. I remember all the tears I cried when we moved when I was about her age. We only moved to the next town over, but it might as well have been a different state in my mind. Fortunately things looked better, as I'm sure they will with Gracy. She'll soon get used to the idea of seeing her friends outside of school instead of talking her way through the day.
School Identity
Next, we created a school identity. We'd like to introduce: The Lighthouse Academy
Colors: Yellow and Black (taken from our family crest)
Mascot: Swordfish
We started making letterhead, student ID's, and T-shirts. We paid for the download of a tuff lookin' Swordfish from istockphoto, but I can't figure out how to open it...so we had to put that project on hold. (If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know!)
School Pictures
We made a trip to the local Walmart picture people to get some cheapy/cheesy school photos taken. Then they tried to scam me. They actually tried to sell me a $200+ package AT WALMART! Seriously! If I wanted to spend that kind of money I would have gone to a REAL photographer! They insisted the cheapest package they had was $79. I asked about the sign that read $4.99. They told me it was company policy to only allow one of those packages per person per day. So, I told them that had to be the most ridiculous thing I'd ever heard, took my kidos and left. Apparently they thought I was an idiot with too much money on my hands.
We went home and took our own photos. Their not the best, but certainly better than $79 for each of them!
Maggie's a 5th Grader all ready!
Can you believe Gracy is in 6th Grade?!
We took a copy of our new school pictures and put together a scrap book page to kickstart the yearbook. They turned out SO cute!
Here We Go!
So tomorrow starts homeschool with school work. I think they are secretly looking forward to it. Gracy just picked out her outfit for tomorrow, and Maggie is getting giggly.
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