Brynne's First Day of First Grade

Monday was Brynne's first day of First Grade at Journey to Excellence. We are schooling her as a first grader instead of as a kindergartener.

Because our decision to bring her home was a quick one, I had to scramble to put together a set of lessons for her and a work station. But, we did pretty good with the amount of time we had.

Because we did some bedroom furniture changes this weekend (you can read about that in an upcoming post on Taulman Times), we had a desk available for her. Here it is right with Dawson and my desks. Our little one room schoolhouse.

This came from Eli's room and it works perfectly for her. The height isn't exactly right when she is doing handwriting, so I have her sit at our antique school desk for that.

She had a great first day learning about "A", reading and doing math. We also made a trip to the library to get us prepared for the upcoming week.

I'll be posting about her schedule and curriculum in another post.

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ABCya

Eli's reading resource teacher shared a website with me yesterday that I would like to pass along. It's called ABCya . There are separate educational sections with fantastic games for ages kindergarten through 5th grade. I browsed the 2nd grade level, and it includes age-appropriate games about Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Geometry, Patterns, Mouse Manipulation, Art and Holiday games. There are lots and lots of fun and creative games for children to play. They are fun, but oh, so educational. Eli's favorite, in his short time playing it, was Create a Car . A lot of the games also have Apps available for purchase (99 cents for most of them) for the iPad and iPhone. I have been looking for another free website for games similar to Starfall , for some time. I think I have found it. I can feel confident having Eli and Brynne play these games.

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