Christian starts Super School!

Christian went back to school on Monday... at our house!

He was really excited to start back into school. Some things are different this year. Sam moved and Laurie is doing a different school. :( Christian was sad about that and commented, "It's too bad that Sam had to move." At the same time he was glad to have two more friends, Ansen Beck and Zane Greene, joining him here.

We are creating our own school this year.It will be a lot like what the moms and I did for Victoria, Makayley, Josh, and Carter a couple years ago. It will have some differences too.

Alicia came up with the name and theme for the year. It is called Super School! The boys are the heroic super learners! They have the power to learn!

Here's Christian in our living room, getting ready for his friends to come!

As you can see, he loves school and was excited to get started.

Then the kids came!

Here are the boys with the things that their moms made. Alicia made a Super School Picture poster. She was nice and included the siblings pictures too. I made a little show and tell bag. Priscilla made a great calendar and weather board. The boys were happy to start.

School was here first. We studied Ss for School this week! We also learned about the number 0, squares, and the color blue. It was amazing how easy it was to put together a lesson that introduced them to our school and the way we want it to run.

Super School Schedule:
Start- went over some basic morning components including windows, date and weather, letter of the week, number of the week, shape of the week, show and tell, etc.
Singing time
Story time
Stations/Sorts
Snack
Sleep
Social Studies
Science
Sports

This is not a schedule that we use everytime or anything I just used it on Monday to introduce them to some things that we will often do at school and to show them some Ss words.

Anyway the boys were great! I was really pleased. Here are a few more pictures from the week at school.

Zane did a great job tracing Squares.

S snacks(breadsticks)

Ansen enjoyed writing S in salt.

Christian set a great example at rest time! They were all so still for 5 minutes! (They don't really need a rest, but they need to know how to lie down quietly so they can do it in kindergarten next year. Rest time is a time when a lot of kids have a hard time with talking and rolling around. I think it can also be a good thing to have quiet time for rest and for self introspection.)

And lastly, the boys with their "Sammy the Squares". It really was an introductory week and served its purpose. The boys know what school will be like and had a good time!