Easing Back In

So we have wrapped up out first week back to school and it was a success overall! Yay! As I said before, we started out with half days (so only about two hours a day) to transition everyone from Summer Mode to School Mode.

I already covered our first day in a previous post. On Wednesday we went to the library on post. This is where I have to make a "bad mommy" confession - this was the first time we'd gone to any library in over two years! Eek! To be fair, we have TONS of children's books in the house and are constantly adding new ones to our collection but still...

We got there in time for Story Time...where my kids were the biggest and oldest of the bunch since all the others were in the 2-3 year range but they had a good time and everyone picked out some books.

We continued our "All About Me" project with a page on Favorite Things and Favorite Foods during the rest of the week. Aside from drawing and coloring, they each had to try to write the words as they sounded them out.

Fridays are usually our quiz day (spelling and math) and then fun art projects or music. As we didn't have any spelling words this week - we were left with art mostly. We made Monster Marks (corner bookmarks), which I found here on Pinterest. Lots of cutting and gluing and folding involved but pretty simple and painless. Plus it's easy to offer lots of options to make the monsters full customizable. 

J's is the pink pig monster. I's is the leopard monster. A's is the orange thing that makes me think of Animal from the Muppets. The Purple critter is mine. I helped with some of the cutting and the instruction but they picked out the features and assembled their creatures.