First Day of School!

We had an awesome first day of school at Seven Pillars Academy! Here are Emily Anne and Will with their schultutes for their first day. You can read more about the schultutes here.

 Just so you know, Seven Pillars Academy doesn't have a uniform requirement! They just wanted something special for the first day of school, and right now, these outfits seemed cool to them!

Here they are digging into the goodies inside. It was so nice to actually be able to surprise them with something. 

 Once the excitement of the schultutes was over, we moved on to school. We practiced memorizing James 3:17, and Will had first pick of school subjects since it was his first day. He chose History, and the kids colored a picture of Charles V while I read to them about the Holy Roman Empire. We moved through subjects steadily, with no complaints--oh, that every day was like this one!

The workboxes worked very well, and Will surprised me by how well he stayed on task with his subjects! Here he is working on handwriting. He doesn't look too happy there, but it was just a weird photo.

 Here he is in the reading corner listening to a book on CD while I was helping Emily Anne with Language Arts. The book was Little Bear Finds a Friend, and he loved it! When he was finished, he asked if he could listen to it again tomorrow.

 Here is Emily Anne working on her narration for Writing.

All in all, it was a great day, and we were eager for the next day of school. We were blessed with a great start to the new homeschool year!