School's In Session!

Today marks the first day of kindergarten for my little man! We opened with prayer at 8:00 this morning, and thus began our new routine for the next year. We started off SLOW (he is NOT excited about school or doing any work), but things got a little better as the morning progressed. Today we only had school from 8:00-9:45. I figured we are not on a time schedule and so we will work at a slower pace until we get into the routine of school. Our supplemental school starts September 7 so I hope we are going strong by then. At that point, I will work on reading, writing and math at home (and I will still do some science, history, etc) on Mondays and Wednesdays (I hope to take Fridays off!). He will do some language arts and math on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but the bulk of his time at school will be science, history, art, Spanish. I hope this will be a really good fit for the both of us. I will be teaching first graders while he attends kindergarten.

I am nervous about teaching him to read .... but then I have to remind myself that people do it everyday, and that originally ALL parents taught their children at home - way back before there were public or private schools. :)

Aaron also starts another semester this week. He begins classes tomorrow and will be one busy man! He is still working 30-40 hours per week, and he will be taking 12 semester hours again. With each seminary class he takes comes at least 1000 pages of reading per class .... can someone do that math for me??? Needless to say, he DOES NOT do any reading for pleasure during the semester! His schedule has him leaving at 8:00 am on Tuesdays and Thursdays and being at Southern until 3:45. He will go straight from school to work... so pray for all of us this semester! It will be challenging on all of us! On a bright note, though, it is his next to last semester of seminary! If all things stay set as they are now, he will graduate come May!!!

All in all, I think this will be a fun, interesting year. And come May, we all will be happy to celebrate summer!