What time is it?

Unlike most of our friends, we were not asking this as the alarm went off this morning, but as a rousing game of "trick your sister" was played with our clocks (and with smoothies of course).

Zoe felt like a first grader - on her schedule was reading, grammar, math, geography, and handwriting.  Whew!  It's hard work to fit it all into 3 days a week.  We enjoyed our first grammar lesson though.  We added phrases to make complete sentences.  My favorite: "The baseball player...... found a wife."  Sigh.

Lucy enjoyed the new items on her shelf.  Her favorite was wood polishing (a bit of a dud in my opinion - need to tweak that one) and handwriting using her new dry erase board.  You can put any page inside.

...and we revisited some old favorites.

Then, we had a celebratory late lunch, a rest, a quick play date, and dance class.

I am wishing we had done something a little more fun for the first day back, but it is what it is.  The first of school is so full of excitement and fresh starts and new clothes, it's a bit of a hard time to be a homeschooler.  But a mom of a fellow first grader told me her daughter was asked by another girl if water had calories in school today, so I did feel better...  No choice is perfect, but we had a great day.