Back from Break

We had an amazing Spring Break and spent lots of good time with family playing and now we're back to school this morning.  It is really hard to back to normal after such a long time away, but we're slowly getting our act together.  We started our morning off with tons of chores.  I pulled out some spring/summer clothes for the girls yesterday, so we had lot of laundry to put away this morning.  We also had dishes and toys to put away.  We finally got around to doing some school work around 9:00 this morning.  Rachel and Ford practiced writing the number 7.  Ruby did some coloring while they were writing.  Rachel then practiced writing from 0 to 100 in her math book.  It worked out very well for her to be working on this concept this week because Wednesday is the 100th day of the year.  Vanessa and I are trying to come up with some 100 day activities.  Most schools do this on the 100th day of school, but I thought it would be cool to do it on the  100th day of the year since we've talked so much about the calendar.  Since we did number 7 today for handwriting, we talked about the seven days of the week and sang a song about the days of the week.  We looked at the calendar and pointed out that today was Monday, April 8.  They're getting pretty good at talking about the calendar and knowing which day it is as well as which month.  Then we talked some about Wednesday being the 100th day of the year and for snack time we counted out 100 almonds.  We're going to try to find 100 pennies by Wednesday (most of them will come from their banks, I'm sure!).  We read some stories and then we decided to head outside since the weather is so nice.  I am so thankful for nice weather that allows us to get outside and be creative on our newly renovated fort in the backyard (I guess it was a playhouse until Papa took off the roof yesterday!).  We had a great time playing and Vanessa and her crew came up to play and then we ate some lunch and got everybody down for a nap.  I think we'll play outside some more after nap time before we go to music class.  Maybe we can find 100 flowers or 100 blades of grass while we're outside?