Graham Girls School has opened

Yes our first week of schooling is complete and it's only lunchtime on Friday. Nice how we can do that:) We started same time as many schools although on Monday I had my doubts as we had no electricity until early Tuesday morning but we decided it was a good day to begin. These are the girls excursion uniforms. I thought it was a good idea to be able to see them in a crowd:)

So Tuesday morning after photos we started our day with our Bible Unit. This was Princess' unit but it is easy enough to adapt for all and it keeps even our littlest occupied. Next comes Language Arts for Princess while Sweetness just works from one book the whole time as Princess moves on to Maths, or Math as our curriculum is from the US.

The girls then had the afternoon with their grammy, most times they are going to do some crafts with Grammy so that is great as it will be one less thing for me to do, not to mention less mess to clean up afterwards. Speaking of mess since the girls now have more time on their hands we are slowly adding more jobs for them to do. Simple things such as each girl does a mealtime table wipe. They are also going to be responsible for their own clothes. They have a day where they need to put their clothes into the washing machine, checking for toys etc (except little one), by afternoon I should have them washed and dried and then the girls fold and put away. Time consuming but good to teach them to look after their things now rather than later. After Grammy took the girls I ran off to Ikea to get some things for the girls work spaces and it was lucky I did as the car park at Ikea was flooded by that evening. The last floods in 2011 didn't affect us at all but this time I actually got to witness the water rising through Logan, like Golf Courses underwater near the Logan River. So this was a bit closer to home. The rest of our week has been good. Princess sometimes gets a bit of an attitude and doesn't enjoy certain work but I think it's to do with the fact she's a bit of a perfectionist and that until she realises exactly how it's done she won't even attempt it. Pity she doesn't have the same perfectionism though with her handwriting lol. We have meet with a few other families this week who also homeschool so it was nice for the girls to see life outside their special school. It's fun to see how much they still enjoy playing with eachother even though they have been together non stop since early December. Lord Willing this will really cement the relationship for all of them for life. I just love seeing them love on and care for eachother.