First Day of School 2012!

This year I don't think I have any pictures from the first day of school.

 Catching the first day of school is difficult because over the years we have stopped having that "official" first day of school, and we sort of ease into our school routine.

This year we began with math and spelling the first week of August.

Week 2 we added writing and week 3 we added  grammar.

Week 4 we added all the rest.

Starting our year out gradually makes it less stressful for all of us. By the time all of our fall activities start up again, we have several weeks of school under our belt. We used to start school and activities all at once, after Labor Day. That was just too overwhelming for our family!

So here's some of our first days of school for the 2012-2013 school year.

Our class has a 6th grader, a 4th grader and a pre-schooler.

Obviously we had riding lessons on this day! :)

Doing some work.

Reading to her brother.

Working on grammar.

I love their facial expressions in this one!

Perhaps reading with goggles helps with comprehension?

Lunch break.

Recess!

As you can see from Aiden's double barrel shotgun,

we haven't adopted a zero tolerance policy for guns in our school :)