Day Two of Our New Homeschooling Adventure!

I am exhausted.  I am exhausted, and oh so glad that I decided to start this week instead of after Labor Day weekend.  Today Gager's had a rough day.  The phone kept ringing, he was over-tired and he was not in "the zone" this morning.  He and I sat down at the table and began our morning.  He struggled from the get-go to stay on task and I basically spent the next two hours re-directing him constantly.  At the middle point, I asked him to color a printed picture of a cow in a pasture.  I told him not to bother Melissa, as she was doing worksheets with Bo and Cote, and to please color the picture nicely.  As soon as I left the room, I could here him dropping stuff, fiddling, tormenting Melissa and basically everything but color.  15 minutes later I reentered the room to find a little chicken scratch coloring on the cow and that is it.  Basically about a 2 year old level.  After all was said and done I asked Melissa what she thought, and her opinion was basically the same as mine.  If he went to public school, he would need a Para all of his own.  Gage cannot stay on task and basically needs someone sitting directly beside him to guide him from task to task and make sure he can overcome and sort of distractions that arise.

Bo and Cote worked on worksheets with Mel while all of this was going on.  Cute worksheets.  I totally saved them :)

Nice part about homeschooling... if you need a little "cuddle break", you take one!

A certain someone is not impressed with me messing up her break :)

It's exhausting to have to behave for extended periods of time.

Ready to be released :)

Enjoying a little outside time.

These two are just so full of naughty!

My outdoorsy kid!

Gage's curriculum is all set up for the rest of the week and I filed what he did the first two days as well as journaled how everything went (in case in the future these records are ever needed).  I am heading to bed now, but please enjoy the pictures of our first couple of days of homeschooling!