First Day of School~ Fall Term 2015

"Everyday is a School Day (And That's The Way We Like It!)"  is our intended mentality, but our reality includes new back-to-school activities  every now and again. 

It helps us pretend that we aren't weird home schoolers every day... only most of them. 

It also gives us a window of time to measure progress for our required annual review. 

One Year Ago:

 

Now: 

I took a lot of photos intending to hopefully luck into a few good ones to share, but to haven't found the necessary time or focus to sift through or edit photos, so here we are, squinty eyes and all...Scroll quickly....

Aletheia First Day Fall Term

Our Fall Term started last week.

We rearranged our classroom.

Started with coffee, of course... 

Rye insisted she wanted "real" coffee in her cup...

... I think she liked it. 

First Period: Individual Grade Photos

FISHER KAI

Fisher is in Jr. High now

6th-ish Grade

LOGAN ALEECE

 Logan is finishing Jr. High

8th-ish Grade

CHANDLER BRICE:

Chandler is a Freshman (& not very fond of having his photo taken) 

2nd Period: Group Photo

 AFTER SEVERAL ROUGH DRAFTS...

ALETHEIA FIRST DAY FALL TERM 2014-2015

 3rd Period: Group Work 

  A peek into one of our favorite classes: Rubber Pencil 101

(and a video about Earthquakes) 

Pre-3 runs simultaneously in the same room: 

Weather gal :

Fidgets have been added to each desk space~ a listening aid, believe it or not: 

A Book Butterfly:

Riley in her "Music Appreciation" tent..a.k.a. naptime:

She now says "I hate music appreciation!" 

There were many other things not pictured, like a lesson on Earthquakes,  LoF Decimals & Percents, LoF English, 100 Essays: Essay #1: The First Day of School, Lunch & Break Time, Books Aloud and more. 

We ended the day with cookies.

In an ideal world, maybe they would have been homemade cookies. That was the original plan, too, make a special treat to close out the day.

But, homeschooling (amongst other things) has taught me that we do not live in an ideal world and sometimes, one must wing it.