First Day

We’re too cool for school – Glenwood School that is! Today we opened The Saunders Academy (as named by our children). We accomplished a great deal, despite the fact that I had to work in the morning. Here is a breakdown of our day:

6:30 – Shelby and I went “dogging”.

7:30 – We returned, woke the kids, and had a shower (Shelby too).

8:45 – The kids and I drove to the Y (they read their respective books while waiting for my class to start).

9:30 – We all taught Discover and Learn. Jake and Emma were a huge hit with the little ones.

12:00 – We arrived home for lunch, unloaded the dishwasher, and started the laundry.

12:30 – We practiced and discussed the First Article of Faith (after a prayer of course).

12:45 – We reviewed Spelling rules and entered 20 new words into our Spelling notebooks.

1:30 – Adverbs lesson

1:50 – Vocabulary Building

2:15 – Math (Emma worked on multiplication and Jake worked with prime numbers).

2:45 – Jake’s piano lesson, Emma at the computer for math games

3:15 – Social Studies (Ohio history, President William Henry Harrison)

3:45 – Emma’s piano lesson, Jake created playing cards for our Ohio history game

4:15 – Poetry Reading and review of the day

5:00 – Swim Lessons

*Tomorrow we’ll include science, writing, and cooking!