First Day of School and School Room

I promised a few months ago that I would do a post on our school room; however, it took me quite a long time to get it organized!  Here it it…(finally)…

This is our dining room table/school table:

Our workbox station—Each child has 8 tubs.  On top is my tabletop pocket chart, Isaac’s science tub (for his weekly experiments), and other supplies.  Also pictured is our book rack and an extra bookcase.

My Parts of Speech bulletin board set and our British Isles and Europe maps:

Our spelling board for All About Spelling, our math door, and a shelf unit for Gabriela’s quiet play activities:

Bulletin board, calendar, pocket chart, USA map, and Periodic Table of Elements.  It’s taken me awhile to get used to the idea of our dining room doubling as our school room, but I’m just going with it this year and putting up more educational things!

     

Despite weeks of planning and a week delay in starting our school year (due to shipped books not arriving on time), I was not prepared for what happened the morning of school day #1.  Gabriela, who is beginning preschool this year (and very excited about it), woke up puking.  Not fun!  Poor baby, she spent the day watching movies and taking a nap.  She didn’t even get to eat the waffles Dad made for their Back-to-School breakfast.  Here are the kids on School Day #1:

 

One thing I did this year is prepare Back-to-School surprises for my kids.  They had no idea, and they were so excited when they saw what I had for them.  It really helped get us off to a good start (despite the fact that my baby girl was poorly).  Isaac and Moriah got Thinking Putty, and Gabriela got homemade scented play dough.  Also, I got some Smencils (scented pencils) for all 3 of the kids to use.  They absolutely loved their surprises!

Gabriela was still a bit puny this morning (day 2), but she’s doing so much better now that I’m confident she can do school with us tomorrow!