Reports from the First Day of School

To get Hannah's perspective on her first day of grade 8, visit her blog (abagofcarrots.blogspot.com).

Rachel had a good first day, catching up with her classmates from last year. They didn't really do any work. It was basically a meet your teachers, discuss class rules, and stuff like that, type of day. They started a cover page in their "Projects" book, which Rachel has finished at home tonight. She brought home a stack of books which we have covered this afternoon.

Keziah and Rebekah enjoyed their first day. Here are the diary entries that they wrote during class (I will copy their writing exactly, complete with spelling errors):

Dear Diary,
This is my first day at school. Before today I was home schooled. I am in Ms. Watson's class. She's a great techer. I've found out that Chloe and Ella are in my class. At recess I found Kiarni. Before recess we made name tages to put on our desks, after that we made rules for our class. School's great I wish I had come earlyer. We had lunch then we went outside to play. Bye for now. (Keziah)

Dear Diary, Today is my first day of school. I'm really exited. At school, our teacher is Msz Watson. My friends are Chloe, Ella and some others I can't remember their names. We said good morning to Msz. Watson, then we played silent ball, it was fun, then we talked about rules and made some rules for the class, then we had morning tea and I talked with my friends. then talk about going to the toilet and about a school diary, then we had a quick esemberly, then we had lunch, and had a run around, then we played mine shafts. (Rebekah)

My day was very quiet. I cleaned the bathrooms, vacuumed the floors, put some clutter away, and then collected the girls from school.

Signing off for now.

The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives

It's back to school for our scruffy bunch of State School Kids today.

Everyone was up early, lunches packed, pancakes for breakfast, cat fed - all before 8am. We were then left with time to spare so we sat around the table for a time of prayer, took some photos and twiddled our thumbs until it was time to leave for school.

Hannah, ready for the first day of grade 8 at Clarence High School. She knows that her two best friends are in her class, but other than that we have to wait and see.

Rachel, ready for the first day of Grade 6 at Howrah Primary School. She is back with basically the same group of kids she had in her grade 5 class, plus some extras.

She has the same class teachers Hannah had in Grade 6.

Keziah and Rebekah, ready for their first day ever at school! They are starting grade 4 at Howrah Primary this year.

We walked to school together this morning, found their classroom, put their bags away and then Keziah and Rebekah chose where they wanted to sit. They are starting off sitting together. A couple of other girls came and sat with them- Ally Gregg (Jordy's sister) and Rain (one of Maddy Doust's cousins and I am not sure if that is how it is spelt, but that was what it sounded like)

My goal today is to clean the house and have a special afternoon tea ready for the girls afterschool!

Regatta Day

We went to the Regatta this afternoon. Nothing was happening on the river, so we spent time on the sideshows.

We finished with Fairyfloss.

(can you guess what colour it was?)

Lizard Lingo

Dear fellow bloggers (especially those who call me Mum or Auntie),
I can attempt to use current technology and can even lower myself to use abbreviated spelling on occasions, yet I cannot endorse current teenage lingo. When posting to this site, please use what I am terming "Lizard Lingo". If you wouldn't say it to my face, don't post it on my blog site! Better still, if you wouldn't say it to your Pastor, don't post it! You know the words I am talking about!

Getting Started

My daughter (a bag of carrots) is making me learn about blogging!! I am typing this under sufferance and supervision. Apparently my spelling is not to her liking! She wuld hav me mis al da duble leters nd half da vowels!