excitement

Our first day of  kindergarten homeschool was a smashing success. Natalie arrived at 7:30 AM and was reading her first new word before she crossed the threshold. 

I remember my elementary days when a new pair of tennis shoes for gym class was part of the back to school purchases. Instead of gym shoes Natale was proudly sporting a new pair of chicken shoes. 
 

I found a set of books at the public library titled Games for Reading and Games for Writing by Peggy Kaye. They have so many good ideas that I decided we needed to purchase the books as I was taking notes on almost every game I read. 

I tried out the "Gift word" idea and presented Natale with a pretty box containing the word "Like". I remember from my classroom days that this is a very useful word for new writers.  

With all the new school supplies and exciting things to do it was a little tricky to stay on one task for long but we were able to accomplish quite a bit including a first journal entry, "Today I wore my chicken shoes" and a first page to a book, "Natale likes strawberries".