First Day of {Home} School

Once upon a time there were three little boys so excited for their first day of school that they got up early, had breakfast, got dressed, and did their morning chores all before 8 o’clock in the morning!

Each year I have tried to take those interesting (but mostly blackmail worthy) “First Day of School” photos but mostly failed. So this year I said gone is the posing; let’s just take photos when a moment arises.

Here are our moments from this morning…

Our First Day of Homeschool

First Day of Homeschool at Dinker & Giggles

We started our day with a prayer and did our first unit in our New Testament Bible study. Then we talked about the name we picked for our school – Kinzua Academy. Hunter loves that our mascot is the Snowy Owl – of course.

Here are some photos of the boys working on a photo to represent our school. The only directions were it needed to include:

Water
Owl
The words ‘Kinzua Academy’

Deep Creative Thought

Working Hard

After they were all done the boys took turns and explained about their creation. Each full of their own artistic representation of the required elements. I just loved listening to them explain their art work!

Show and Tell

See that chart behind Hunter’s head? That is part of the We Choose Virtues Faith-Based Character Building that we are working on. So far we have had lots of “I am a Helper”. Our caterpillars are turning into beautiful helping butterflies today!

Now it’s lunch time followed by what I’m assuming is going to be some messy but super-duper fun cupcake baking and decorating time!

We are linking up with iHomeschool Network’s ‘Not Back-to-School Blog Hop for the School Photo Week.

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Alaina Frederick

Alaina Frederick, publisher of Dinker & Giggles, loves helping to create a healthy environment for her four boys and husband. Her favorite time of year is winter - trees blanketed with fresh snow, hot cocoa in hand, and a great book completing the package.