First Day of School!

Big doings in the Dorrell households today...first day of school! A really big day for Elijah (2) his very first day of school. This picture shows him getting ready for a lesson with the sandpaper sounds. We started working on "c," "m," and "s" today. He also had a counting lesson and a lesson with the colors with red, blue, and yellow. Then he did two puzzles using squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles. It was a great first day! Joy came over when Elijah did and she read out of her school reader and then read a "Super Book" (a short phonetic story) to Goosey (Woody). When Elijah finished his lessons with me, he went downstairs to read and play with Goosey. Then it was Esther's turn to come over. We had a good first day too. She did a lot of reviewing of things that she had done before to refresh her memory before I introduce new things. She worked really hard and then got to do some puzzles using shapes...hexagons, equilateral triangles, trapezoids, rhombus, squares...several new terms for her. When she finished, she went downstairs and Woody read her a library book...she liked it so well that she had him read it twice! Then she stayed and played for a while. Graham and Abigail had a good first day of school over at their house. Graham did come over to work on some math with Goosey. Abigail came over all excited this afternoon because she had gotten a letter from her penpal, Abby. I will start having lessons with the older grandchildren next week. This week I am starting slowly and getting in the school groove with just the preschoolers as the three older children are having swimming lessons starting tomorrow...so we will get into extra math, reading, sewing, and art lessons next week with Graham, Abigail, and Joy. Let the fun times of school begin!!!! Kathy said that Graham was so excited to get going on school that he was up before her this morning...so looks like a good start to a new school year.

Woody did get up early this morning and walked his four-mile route. At noon Woody and I went to church to hear a guest speaker. The neighbors were there too...we waved at each other from across the room! Woody has just left to go back to church. He is going to take care of the grandchildren while Nathan and Kathy have a meeting at church. There is a church service tonight so all (neighbors, Woody & I) will end up in church around 6:30...I will meet up with them a little closer to the church service time...staying home to have time to blog and do a couple of other things. I'm hearing rumbles...wondering if a storm is rolling in.