First day of school

Well the first day of school has officially come and gone. Things went relatively well. There were a few bumps in the road. Mainly dealing with Jonah getting used to being more structured at home then we normally are. At one point he said he was done doing school at home and so we talked about why. He said he wanted Mrs. Weber to be his teacher again this year. I explained to him that she couldn't be because he was in 1st grade now and so mommy was going to be his teacher. That actually went over quite well. We were really flexible in the schedule. Jonah kept talking about how he wanted to do show and tell, which was not on the schedule, but he wanted to do it, so we did. He talked about a few of his toys and then he was ready to do more "school". Another time we were going to read the scriptures and they wanted to read other books, so they (Jonah and Simon) each picked out one book and we read those first and then we read the scriptures. Their behavior was really pretty good!
Some of the things that we will do every day are the pledge, reciting our family motto, doing the weather and calendar charts in both English and Spanish, and prayer. We will also do Brain Gyms every day. This will help the boys to be able to move about more and at the same time work their "brain muscles" to enable them to think better. We will also read the scriptures every day and work phonics into that.
Every week we will have a value of the week that we will work on. This week it is Honesty and Candor. We played a game were we pantomimed feelings and then we pulled papers out of an egg carton with different scenarios on them and talked about how they would make us feel. The boys really liked that!
Every other day we will work on either language arts or math. Today we worked on language arts. We did a few letter games and then Jonah did some work in a workbook on the letter "F". We are also going to study Spanish this year because Jonah is really interested in it right now, so in addition to doing the weather and calendar in Spanish we are going to work on other words. This week we are focusing on Colors. Today we learned rojo which is red. The boys loved this. We sang a little song that said red is rojo and then we went around looking for things that were red and said rojo as we pointed to them. We worked in piano practicing as music study also. All in all, I think it was a great day!