Wednesday, September 7, 2011

First Day of School: STATS

4 Backpacks
4 Lunch Bags
4 Water Bottles
1 Stroller
1 Sling
90 Degree temperatures
0 Trees for shade
1 Beautiful ocean view
1 Favorite trail to hike at Bolsa Chica
1 Scared little bunny spotted by James



2 Red Tailed Hawk sightings: 1 adolescent right overhead and 1 next to the trail eating his lunch
1 Great Blue Heron flying right over us--we heard his call for the first time
1 Little boy drawing that heron in his nature journal




1 Poem to be learned
3 little girls being taught the poem by 1 big girl while sitting in 1 lean-to built by the boys




1 big baby boy who just wanted to nap




24 friends, from 3 months to 7 years, to learn with, explore with, laugh with and grow with



1 day of (sweaty) fun
and many more to come!

Hope your first day of school was perfectly wonderful.
Love from,
Greta

2 comments:

lauren said...

um... my first day of school was rough. i ran across this quote by i forget who, " God often uses homeschooling to be the undoing of the self sufficient woman." amen and amen. i have a feeling though that in my undoing i will find what was worth doing in the first place. it WILL get better. yours looked lovely. :)

Anonymous said...

Looks like an amazing day! Are those 24 kids all part of a homeschooling group? How awesome!

Love that big baby!!