Before she woke up, I read my devotional and it was perfect for today! I definitely have learned about building a house - a physical one as well as a spiritual one - and I've learned about storms and the firm Rock which is Christ Himself.
As you learn these lessons, you are to teach them to others. I will open up the way before you, one. step. at. a. time. ~ Jesus Calling
Each morning during breakfast I try to read a few verses from one chapter of Psalms and one from Proverbs. Today is August 8th so I read Chapter 8 from each and they both fit perfectly for the first day of school - one about wisdom and the other about creation, which was our topic of the day. :)
Jelly face: This is how our day started. :)
I don't know why she never looks at the camera, but she's cute and growing!! 34 1/2 inches!
She was a little frustrated with the magnets not sticking so well but she did get just trying again. I will have to figure something else out for those...
I basically just explained what the calendar was and how it's used...to tell what day it is and what things we need to get done that day, etc. She will get to add a new number each day. We are also going to start counting down to her birthday!
Then we went over to our other magnetic calendar since she is familiar with this one. It's Melissa & Doug... She insisted on adding that today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day lol I also told her we have a playdate with her cousin. : )
She would just sit here and play with this calendar all day long. She wanted to "organize" everything, she said, so I let her place everything in rows like she wanted. :)
Counting 100 days of school using star stickers during "Calendar/Circle Time"
Later I asked her what her favorite part of school today was and she said, "Painting!" She wanted to paint a tree like I did, so we are going to use her tree for adding our fruit of the spirit. Today we added Gentle Grapefruit and Goodness Grapes to our tree.
I'm trying to start a student/portfolio notebook that has all of her coloring sheets, her letters (example: a B that looks like a bunny), etc. So here she is coloring the first sheet of our creation portion of the notebook.
She happened to notice on her own, that I had added the story cards for ABC Bunny. She was frustrated that she couldn't fit them all in one line. :)
She's pretty thrilled that she can "read."
Then after that we took a letter for insurance to the mailbox and listened to a bird on the way back! Then we happened to see Nana, so she got to play for a little bit. They played tee-ball and went on the swingset and even got to play in the rain! After that, she got to go play with her cousin! There we read ABC Bunny, and we sang the ABC Bunny song from YouTube. We also happened to watch/come across a DVD The Legend of the Three Trees and it happened to go along with our creation theme.
Oh, right before we left the house to go see her cousin, she played in the rabbit sensory bin. We "hid" the paper bunny under the popcorn kernals and under the plastic eggs. We pretended the bunny was eating carrots. We scooped and poured...
It was a busy day but a good day! I still can't decide (at 11pm) if we'll do school again tomorrow or if we will wait until next week. I don't know if we will do one or two days per week. One of the days is Bible study, so that counts as one school day since they really do learn in there! :) I could not have asked for a better first day of preschool! I hope she enjoyed it as much as I did. :)
