First Day of First Grade

Alison's 1st day of 1st grade was a huge success! We had such a fun day. I gave her the backpack full of school stuff. She worked in her new workbooks and decided out of all the weather things I found that she wanted to do rainbows first. Surprise, surprise! We read the page in the weather book about rainbows and read the library book about rainbows.

We are making a project called a lapbook. It's basically a manilla folder that is refolded and things are taped inside to make a record of what she is learning. Today we started it with a little thing about rainbows. As we learn more, we'll add more and when we are done it will be a record of the high points of our weather study.

We also went outside and played on the new swingset. Ian can climb up the slide! He also likes to go down it too. He's so brave. He also tried the rockwall and aside from just randomly letting go (I was holding him the whole time), he was a natural at it. I'm scared to see what he's going to be like next summer.

After we played awhile,we took a walk and found a Milkweed Tussock caterpillar. We're going to keep it for a few days and see how it does.

So that was our first day and we have lots more planned. I'll keep you all posted on our adventures.