Sydney's Creative Writing

First Day of School

Here are pictures from our first official day of 1st grade! We actually started "reviewing" the end of last year's material last week on 8/17, but started new material this week. Sydney is adjusting very well (better than last year) to our schedule again after having most of the summer off. I had planned to continue through the summer, but with everything that was going on - my miscarriage, Pamela's wedding, our little summer trips here and there, well, before I knew it, summer was over and we did not do "year-round" school like I had intended. But we have officially started up again and we are both happy to have our "routine" back. We have even made it to morning Mass a few mornings!

First grader

First grader

The Principal

The Teacher

Pre pre-schooler

Lesson 1: Spell your name

Yearbook Pages

The Catholic Knowledge Bowl

Oh my goodness! We came in 2nd place! I have to throw in that we tied for 1st place, but we missed the tiebreaker question. I think we were all still in shock from realizing that we actually tied for 1st place?!?

For those of you who didn't know, our homeschool group formed a team of 4 homeschooling moms and decided to enter the 2nd Annual Catholic Knowledge Bowl. We were Team #6 (out of 15) and we were called "Leaders of Little Hearts," sponsored by the Immaculate Heart Homeschoolers. We studied (individually) but mostly did it for FUN and to LEARN. The Knowledge Bowl was held yesterday on Sunday, January 25th from 1:30 - 4:30 PM at Holy Family Parish in Victoria.

Our final score was 142 out of 150, not including the tiebreaker question that we missed. Once they post the questions from the competition, I'll post those here so you can see what your Catholic IQ is!

From left to right: Me (Jennifer), Heather, Denise, and Marie

Sydney's 1st day of school!

Well, not really. We have already been homeschooling for a year and a half, but I had to have "official" first day of school pictures. I have pictures like this from my first day of school...with my dad, my mom, etc. And since Sydney is technically in Kindergarten this year (based on her age - 5), we did what we would have done had we sent her to public school. Can you believe the dress she is wearing is one of the dresses I wore when I was in Kindergarten, back in 1979?!

By the way, THIS is the reason I have not had any time to post any pictures of our family until now. Homeschooling is very much worth it, but it does take up a lot of my time!