A good start

I'm happy to report that Bella's Kindergarten year is off to a good start!  We began school on Aug 3, and completed 21 school days for the month.  She is doing excellent with all her subjects thus far...my biggest difficulty has been getting her to make her bed without grumbling and complaining!

Since pretty much all of the material we've covered so far has been a review, she is zipping through her curriculum.  I've been doing 2 lessons a day in math and phonics on most days. Which gives us some wiggle room if we need to slow down once we get into harder material.  We are already about 14 days ahead, and when you take into account that our curriculum has only 170 days in it, while the state requires 180....well we've got lots of time for field trips and supplemental activities!

Our kindergarten year has definately been more of an adjustment for me than for Bella... The workbooks and materials we used last year required virtually no preparation.  This year I spend part of almost every day pulling the appropriate flashcards, gathering worksheets, cutting out game pieces, getting out art supplies, preparing the dry erase board, etc.  It takes a lot of time....but I really enjoy it!

Here are some pictures from our first month of Kindergarten!

The dry erase board, ready for the next mornings' phonics / handwriting
lessons!

Abby participates in art time, making egg carton caterpillars!

Sand art!

The girls inspect our "Closer Look" board, an idea I got from pinterest:
Petri dishes attached to a wooden board- fill with small objects
and give the kids magnifiying glasses!

My sweet Kindergartener!

Making Butt Caterpillars during art time!