Are we ready?

Books are ready.

Scheuletes are ready.

Gnomes are ready.

Am I ready?????

                                     

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Schedule for 1st Day of School (August 15, 2008):

• Attend morning Mass for Feast Day
• IHOP for breakfast
• Break out the scheuletes and let the children linger over their oh-so-new, smelling-of-glue goods
• Go over new books, plans, schedule, outside activites, get feedback from children
• Nature Scavenger Hunt
• Fresh Tuna Salad already in refrigerator for lunch
• Reading
• Math
• Traditional first-day-of-school treat...ice cream at the ice cream parlor
• Back home to watch Nim's Island over a bowl of popcorn

Comments

[Kimberly]

Have a great beginning to your new school year! We are finishing up our fourth week and I must say, it feels good to be back in the groove.

[Tracey (Connections)]

Cay-
I want to come to your first day of school!

We "school" year round so we don't have a first day of the school year. Your plans are making me regret that!

Have a wonderful year!

Tracey (Connections)

[Cassidy]

Have a great start to your school year!

[Paula in MN]

I'm coming to your house!

[Meredith]

Have a great first day Cay!

[Cheryl M.]

I want to come to your house too, Cay! :)
Sounds like a wonderful first day!! :)

[Betsy]

What a cool mom/teacher! We never do anything special for the first day. I need to come up with something...

[Candace]

Oh wow, Cay! Sounds like a fabulous day!! I hope it goes beautifully for you! :)

[Dana]

Sounds like a great plan! We traditionally go out for doughnuts the first day of school and I've been trying to think of something else fun to do. Thanks for the ideas!

[Becky]

Sounds like a great day Cay! Care to share what you have in the scheuletes for your kiddos? I love that tradition but have yet to start it around here.

[Deb]

Oh, what wonderful ways to start back! I'm going to have to adopt some of those! I love the breakfast out. I might amend it to homemade waffles with choc chips on top! Cheaper and keeps away the temptation to do just one more errand while we're out, which would push school off...Off to think.

[Cay]

Thank you, everyone.

We had a great first day back. Like Kimberly said, it is great to be back in the groove.

I'll say one thing for schedules and routines. They help with the discipline around here. :)

Tracey, I like to "think" we school year-round because I do believe the children are always learning. But there is a lot to be said for new school supplies, new books, fresh starts, and first days of school. We all need fresh starts. :)

Betsy, you should really try it. It's worth the effort just to see and hear the children's excitement.

Dana, it'll be doughnuts next year. I've already told the children. IHOP was way too expensive. Thank God for Grandmas. Oma forked the bill on this one (excuse the pun).

Thank you, Oma. Hugs and kisses.

Deb is right. Making your own chocolate chip happy-face pancakes is just as good. If you let the kids mix and cook them it's even better. :)

Becky, I will share what was in the scheuletes and the evolution of them within our home. I made small ones this year and should have kept them large.

More later. My computer time is past up.

Hope everyone's school days are picture perfect. :)