A fun day 'playing' school

We had a great day. Aria wanted to start our homeschool the same day as all of her friends. Which was today. I wasn't planning on beginning till next week, but since she was motivated I thought I'd go along with it. She wants to be the same as her friends who go to school without the stress of going to school.

We got up at 8:30am, which is a feat for us, since we are all night owls. We got dressed and ate a little something. We took a walk for "PE". Then we came back and read for a little bit. I picked out a story I thought Aria would like, but she got tired of it pretty quickly. I read some of Alice in Wonderland to myself.

Then we tried out Aria's Garden Stone kit. This was a bust, though, as the kit sucked big time. It's called Just My Style Room Decor Sweetheart Garden Stones. It's plaster of paris which dries so fast that you cannot decorate it. We tried with all four bags of powder and none of them worked even though we followed the directions. After that Aria put on music for 'music' class.

Then they kids ate some lunch which they made for themselves. Peanut Butter and Jelly. And finally math. They both did a few pages of a packet that I made for them. Aria got four of them done and Casey, three. Casey speaks math I think. He understood right away how to count by tens and hundreds on the rods and flats worksheets I gave him. And then he was able to add digits ten and less to digits up to 9 with no problem. He made many comparisons between the number problems like 6 + 2 and 3 + 5 had the same answer. And he knew the answer to 10 + 3 because he had just done 10 + 4 and it was just 1 more then 10 + 3. He also sounded out the word scan today.

Connor scribbled on some worksheets I printed for him also and was happily in the mix with the kids most of the day. It was a nice and busy day.