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Mary Chris
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We have always just started. This year my youngest is starting kindergarten and I want to make it fun.
Out theme for the year is world geography and folk tales so I am going to present them with this passport.
I also am thinking about taking a picture of each of them. Maybe I can ask dh to stay home for breakfast and make their favorites.
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marychris wrote:
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A theme! I hadn't thought of that!
Great idea!
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I'll definitely take pictures of the kiddos with their sugar bags~Schultuete.
We usually have a very slow start. My dc asked for chairbacks this year becuase their friends had some. I picked them up at Wal-Mart and bought paint pens. They'll decorate them in the morning and get to look through their sugar bags at all their new supplies and scan through their new books. THis has all been in hiding. My dc are not the type who get excited about UPS like their momma does.  So i don't have to worry about them seeing the goods ahead of time. 
We usually go out for ice cream afterwards.
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We started on Monday -- Feast of the Assumption -- with morning Mass and then a trip to the donut shop! Boy were the older ones (my 16 yo's school is late starting due to "construction constraints" and my 14 yo opted out of Mass to do her Seton schoolwork!) mad that they didn't get a donut (should have gotten up for Mass, no?)
We had a very relaxed, feastday schedule that the littles really enjoyed and now we're adding a course or two each day. By next Monday, they should be at full schedule (hopefully  ) painlessly!
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The passport is a great idea. I'm glad you shared it because we're starting on the 29th and I can get the passports ready by then. Is this the first time you have a theme for the year? I'm interested in "hearing" some of your past theme ideas, if you've done them before, or others' themes for the year.
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Mary Chris,
How funny, the passport, is linked to a FIAR site in my hometown of Plano!  I'm not interested in joining the group, but it is nice to know they exist!  And, I am using FIAR with my 3 and 5 year olds this year and love the idea of the passport, so thanks!
As far as making the first day special, we usually "ease" into school like Mary...we begin slowly and take a few weeks to get to full capacity...that way we don't have any melt downs the first week...and we usually go out for a milk shake on the first day! We aren't starting until 6th...I'm still organizing all my school materials and writing my lesson plans!
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jdostalik wrote:
We aren't starting until 6th...I'm still organizing all my school materials and writing my lesson plans!
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lesson plans ...  you DO lesson plans.....
Just kidding!
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Cay,
What are chairbacks?
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Ha ha Mary!
I do them (lesson plans) for a while, until life kicks in, and then I usually wing it...but I'm finding that increasingly hard, esp. with a 5th grader this year!! HELP!!!!!!!!
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Natalia wrote:
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We call them chairbacks because they fit on the back of the chair. But I couldn't find a picture of them on the Internet until I came across this site calling the 'chair bags'.
I think I pd. $6.00/$6.99 a piece at Wal-Mart. They're made out of starched demin but can be made out of any material.
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For many of the past years, we have started the school year with a trip during the same week that the public schools begin in our county. It helps to underline for the girls why homeschooling is so great!
This year will be extra special. We are going to Disney World for the first time that week. Dh was given a time share in Orlando for the end of August, so we are rather unexpectedly doing the whole Disney thing for a week. We are all very excited about the trip, but I am nervous about it being hurricane season. Please pray that we have good weather for our trip.
This year, I can guarantee that we will have some neighborhood friends wishing that they were homeschooled too when we head off for FL right as they are heading back to school! 
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[QUOTE=Cay Gibson] [
We call them chairbacks because they fit on the back of the chair. But I couldn't find a picture of them on the Internet until I came across this site calling the 'chair bags'.
Thanks, Cay. I have to check my local Wal Mart !
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The night before Dh and I set the breakfast table with pretty paper plates and matching napkins. We hang streamers in the room. We also wrap up the new school supplies in ribbon, place them on the plates along with a congratulatory card. After breakfast, we go outside for our first day of school pictures.
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We started on the 8th as the kids were SOOO ready to get going!! We are taking a swing at Shakespeare and Plutarch this year along with American History ala Sonlight and lots of poetry, folk and fairy tales as well as many read alouds from Children's Classics and the Junior Illustrated Classics, like Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Crusoe, King Arthur, Aesop's, etc. WE have eased into our schedule as well and will be adding in some afternoon activities outside the home once the PS and private schools commence. We've had such excellent weather as well here in Idaho so have been raking in many nature study hours as well! Happy starts to you all and love the ideas here about ya'lls first days.
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