Highlights from Day 2

We did a super fast day of school today.  Seriously, all of our work and all of our subjects were covered by 9:30!!  These kids are raring to go, so I'm taking advantage of it!  Rachel and Ford were able to do math and handwriting at the same time as each other which sped things up.  I love being able to stand between them while they have their space at the table and give directions, then watch and help.  Ruby had the best time playing by herself with the kitchen stuff on the living room floor, so there were no interruptions.  It was awesome!  Rachel combined Social Studies and Language Arts by drawing the Wolf's Map and highlighting the parts of "The Three Little Pigs".  It was pretty cute.  Ford wanted to draw a map, too, but ended up drawing a wolf and some boxes.  Oh, and a brick house at the end.  For Science, we went back to the Four Seasons and drew and named different types of weather that occur mostly during certain seasons (i.e. snow in winter, rain in spring, etc.).  This is all still a lot of review, but we're having a good time.  We were done early enough to go to Story Time and meet the new librarian. He was pretty cool.  Ford and Ruby had a great time, but Rachel decided she's just a little too old for story time, so next week we're going to take some things for her to do if she's not feeling it.  During her violin lesson she had to go to the bathroom and in the bathroom started crying that she just really didn't feel like doing violin today.  I think the poor girl is exhausted from two days of Kindergarten and she didn't even leave the house!  I can't imagine how tired the kids are that go to school for the first time for seven straight hours!!!  All three kids were asleep by 7:00 since we skipped nap time for violin.  I'll be glad to switch to a later time next week, but it has been nice to actually get some work done in the evening before I completely crash!
Oh, and Dr. Ed's new office is opening up next week, so we swung by there today to fill out some forms and see the place.  It's so nice and fresh and new!!  I think it's going to be a much more inviting atmosphere for children and a clean, healthy place.  We are really looking forward to it!  (Well, don't mention the shots to Ford that he has to get next week and he's looking forward to it!)