Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Welcome to Our Classroom!

Well, it has only taken me two months to get to this, but here it is; my post on our first week of homeschool! 

One of my reasons for doing this blog is for friends, family members and others who are just plain curious about what really goes on in a homeschooling household.  I have learned A LOT during these first two months and have so much I want to share; including our reasons for choosing to homeschool and how I am keeping my sanity through this whole thing!  That will be in some upcoming posts; for now, I just wanted to share some of the exciting things that went on during our first week.  I have already shared the bad and the ugly moments (see "It was the best of times... " post) so now it’s time for some good!

For our first week, we had a Chicka Chicka Boom Boom theme.  Rapunzel had a great time reviewing letters of the alphabet and number recognition.  Monkey-Do jumped right in and got busy working on letters and numbers too! (for an explanation of their names see the "A rose by any other name" post)

Here is a look at our very busy first week!

Rapunzel on the first day of Kindergarten!

Monkey-Do all ready for preschool!

The bonus room above the garage is now half playroom and half school room.
We still needed the playroom space for Nomo and Guy-Guy!

Alphabet Coconut Tree hats!

Coconut Counting Book

Hand print coconut trees

Patching letters back up with band-aids.  This was Monkey-Dos
favorite activity of the week!

Alphabet letter sorting

Nomo and Guy-Guy busy with blocks
(and not wreaking havoc on the rest of the school room for once!)  

To wrap up our Chicka Chicka Boom Boom week, daddy helped us out with a coconut taste test.  

I was surprised at the final results of the taste test.  The girls liked the coconut more than the grown ups!

So there you have it; our very first week in this adventure of homeschooling!  I truly feel the meaning of "You've got your hands full" while trying to keep the kids learning and busy, the housework from taking over and my husband from feeling too neglected!

These last several weeks have been a roller coaster of highs and lows for me as a mother and a teacher and as I said at the beginning of this post, I have learned A LOT!  I am looking forward to sharing more with you soon!