Woo Hoo!
School has now begun!
The coolest way to start school is with an
ICE CREAM PARTY!
Here are our students: (left to right)
TJ- Junior
Katie- 6th grade
Andrew- 2nd/3rd grade
Shane- Freshman (neighbor)
Bryson- Kindergarten
Shelbee- Pre K/ K (neighbor)
Our formal class picture!
Our crazy class!
We went over our school rules.
The older kids rules on top;
littles on the lower board.
We discussed our new idea this year;
Our KINDNESS Project.
One intentional act of kindness each week.
The younger kids colored their “All about Me” book;
the older kids wrote down a few goals for this year.
Shall I share a few ideas with you? MmmHmmm… think I should….
(We’ll keep whose idea it was anonymous)
Spiritual Goals:
Spread God’s good love of Jesus Christ
To be baptized
To show the love of Jesus more
Community Service:
to serve in the Children’s program at church on Wed nights
to volunteer at Portland Adventist Community Service (PACS)
to volunteer to entertain/babysit two little girls one afternoon a week.
Home:
Don’t burn the house down.
Math:
To finish my math book by the end of the school year.
History:
To study the Revolutionary War
Science:
to memorize the entire periodic table by the end of the school year.
Writing:
to finish a book for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month in Nov).
Bible:
to read a chapter a day.
Other:
watch the Seahawks win the Super Bowl.
Not too bad of priorities, eh?
Next we picked out our school colors;
yellow represents joy
blue represents peace
green represents growth
Then we picked a school mascot (Honey Badger),
to represent being fearless for Christ.
Our School Motto this year; DO HARD THINGS
(common past ones were “Be His Light”, and “Live Outloud”,
both with the intent of sharing Christ’s love.)
We had fun making tie-dye shirts using our school colors.
We will use these for our school field trips.
I’m curious how they will turn out.
Last year it was disasterous (orange & black turned into mucky yuck).
Stay tuned for the results….
We additionally spent time praying for our new school year.
All in all, we had a FABULOUS 1st Day!
Homeschool? Public School? How do you make the first day special?
and just for FUN, here is last years 1st day Fun Adventure:
Ape Caves!
(no one was interested in that big of an adventure this time, lol).
Traveling the Narrow Road 
I wanna be your neighbor and do school together. 🙂
Oh so wishing we had friends to “do school” with.
Love ya! Miss ya! Hope to see you soon!
Maybe we need to do a September “field trip” to the beach again.
Laurel 🙂
I’ll check into that, to see what is available. ;^)
Holy cow you get Teacher?Mom of the year! I was happy to get through the curriculum, expectations and their Bible lessons done!!! It looks like you had a blast!! Miss you!
ha ha, well it was all about setting the momentum for the year. The real work begins tomorrow… *smile*
I love this! I am going to borrow your model if you don’t mind – I don’t think I’ll be able to accomplish all of it but WOW!! My kids would love it and your various goals are wonderful. We’ve never done that before. Family is eating dinner – must go but I had to comment!
Please do! That is what us homeschool mamas do; share ideas, right?
What an awesome mom, having ice cream to start the day! I wish I could say I was that cool, but I can’t. We DID have some yesterday though. (laughing) Keep up the awesome work! You’re an inspiration.
lol, Cool as in messy. I still have green hands!
I am humbled that you think I am an inspiration when I often glean so much from you~
This looks like so much fun! What a great idea and a great way t kick off the school year! Thanks for sharing your great ideas! ~Blessings~
Thank you! I appreciate your kind words! Let’s just hope the fun continues while the studying gets done! *smile*
So awesome, Sheri! What a fun way to kick off the new year!
Love your blog! Curious, our homeschool is The Aufderheide L.I.F.E. Academy (Lasting Impact For Eternity). Wondered what your stands for?
How fun! =) Ours stands for Living In Faith Everyday *smile*
In the ‘better late than never’ category, and perhaps displaying how juvenile I am at heart, I nearly died laughing at the ‘don’t burn the house down goal’. Indeed, that’s always a good one to start with.