Rosemary’s First Day of Kindergarten

The kids woke up pretty excited about the first day of school. Rosemary was eager to get ready and wear her special first day of school outfit. Both Ben and Rosemary were completely ready by 7:30 this morning. That’s pretty quick considering they aren’t allowed to come out of their rooms until 7.

Our big kindergartner

(Check out last year’s first day of school here and see how much she’s grown)

Finding their desks

Ben was excited about the Handy Manny stuff and he had his own box of supplies and mat for songs and stories

Ready for the day (at least Rosemary and I were, Charlotte was ready for her breakfast!)

A quick photo with daddy before he headed off to work

I had bought this outfit over a year ago. I know that most days we’ll be lucky if Rosemary even matches, but it was nice to have a special outfit for the first day. And she did everything herself, even the buttons on the shirt. I helped a little with the hair.

After pictures, we started off our day by ringing the school bell then saying the pledge to the American flag and the Bible. Then it was music time followed by some reading. This is part of the day where Ben can be just as involved as Rosemary. And I think it’s good for Ben to have to sit still. Hopefully it will help prepare him for his preschool class that he starts in September.

Dancing away

Next Rosemary and I worked through her first math lesson then moved on to handwriting. Ben mostly played and Charlotte was napping. After handwriting, it was snack time.

We made fruit smoothies in the baby bullet with yogurt, milk, and frozen fruit. They were really good. The kids got a little bit of a play break too so that Charlotte could eat. Then we started back up with Rosemary’s reading lesson.

The last subject of the day was Five in a Row and Ben can be involved in part of this too. This week we’re rowing A Pair of New Clogs. We read the book, colored the story disk and put it on our world map over Japan, and colored the Japanese flag. Rosemary also made a cover for her Five in a Row notebook. Later this afternoon we played the weather-telling game from the book and made a chart of our predictions. Based on that, it’s supposed to snow on Saturday. Ya’ll better get your parkas handy.

Once Rosemary finished coloring, it was time for lunch and school was done for the day. Yay! We made it!! It wasn’t perfect and I can see how I need to be flexible with Ben and Charlotte and still need to figure out some paperwork stuff, but overall it went well and Rosemary is excited about school tomorrow.

Getting ready for their Lunchables and juice boxes.

After lunch Rosemary was desperate to have recess. I’m not sure where she learned about recess, but she knows that it’s an integral part of the kindergartner’s day somehow. Unfortunately, it was quite rainy today. And the time we tried to go out between lunch and naps it was too thunder-y to even play in the rain.

Disappointed in the rain

Ben still braved the elements

To occupy herself, Rosemary tried Ariel’s wig on Charlotte. Charlotte was not a fan.

She also put her Build-a-Bear glass slippers on Charlotte’s tiny little feet.

Rosemary got to choose what we had for dinner and she picked spaghetti without sauce. So basically she just asked me to boil water for her. The rest of us had meat sauce and salad. About half way through and Rosemary was ready for some sauce too. We had brownies and ice cream for dessert and Rosemary got to use the You Are Special plate.