Gator Day and First day of School

Gator Day is a big event at our church. Since we live in Gainesville the college starting back school changes our whole town. Roads get busy. Mall is always packed. Restaurants are full. And sports will be played. :) Gator Day began as a welcome back to our college students from summer break. It has grown to become the launch of our church new year. On Gator Day we started 24 new Sunday school classes, changed all of our worship times, and added a second location. Mike is the worship leader for the new location.

The dress for morning services on Gator Day is more relaxed. Usually Mike would wear a suit and tie. I would wear a skirt or slacks. Kids in the same kind of attire. Although yesterday we all got to wear khaki's and polo's. All gator colored of course. Renee was in a dress but it was blue and had little cheer girls on the front. How could I pass that up. It was so cute. Of course Sunday mornings are crazy and I forgot to take a picture. :(

For the evening service it is always low key. We have a comedian in last night. The boys really wanted to wear there gator jerseys but I didn't want them to wear it in the morning so they wore them last night. Then Renee wore a little cheer top with some jeans. I did get a picture of that.

Justin is a friend of ours and he was in the bathroom Renee was waiting on. She told me she wanted to tell him she could hear him in the bathroom. So I got a video. I think we caught him a little of guard, what do you think?

Today is Renee's official first day of school. When we started homeschool with the boys in January, I went ahead and started her on the curriculum. We moved fast through it since they were older and were able to grasp it much easier. She would still try to draw the letters and like to cut and paste certain pages together but it was a little to fast pace for her to "get" it.

We teach the boys 2-3 days worth of work in one day. (We are trying to catch them up to the grade they are suppose to be in). Like I said, we started in January and they are almost done with Kindergarten. So we have done a whole years worth of work in about 7 months. They will start on 1st grade work soon. They are really excited about that.

Renee will not need to catch up so we will be able to spend a little more time on her work. This week we are learning the letter "S". Here is a video taken of her today during the craft portion of school.

Here is a video of last week during homeschool. The boys are on the letter "R". The curriculum we use has a lot of activities and different ways to learn the letters. One of the ways is with shaving cream. Well I can't stand a mess. So I taped foil to the table and let them play on that so it was an easy clean up. Remove tape, ball up, and throw away. How much easier could that be. Love it!!!

Hope you have a great Media Monday!