Our First Day!

We are O'FISH'ALLY ready to begin our journey!  Our five-year-old, Brynn, is o'fish'ally a Kindergartner with great aspirations to be a princess when she grows up!  She is a girly-girl through and through and believes all things in life should be as fancy as possible!

Brynn has definitely been a princess-in-training for quite some time through magical play and a vivid imagination, so it is only natural that she would aspire to be a princess.  Just watch "The Story of Three Princesses" to truly discover this calling!

Our three-year-old, Clare, is o'fish'ally a Preschooler and is, apparently, an aspiring doctor.  Yes, she has a medical kit all her own that she utilizes on a daily basis, and she recently inquired why her medical kit wasn't fully stocked daily with Toy Story Band-Aids.  According to Clare, you can surely solve all of the world's problems with a Toy Story Band-Aid.  If only it was that easy, right!?

Our little Elle, well, she is o'fish'ally cute, and inquisitive, and fearless, and a master-of-all-mess- making, but, in all reality, CUTE!

And, we would be remiss to leave out the one who is o'fish'ally on board, the one who is surely learning each and every day from the "womb with no view."

So, as you can gather, we have a theme!  Leave it to a former elementary teacher to come up with a theme.  After all, one cannot facilitate a first day of school without a theme.  One MUST have a theme (well, maybe it's not completely a necessity, but it sure does make things more fun), so the theme is FISH!  And to correlate with the theme, we started the day with a video clip of Nemo's first day of school: http://pinterest.com/pin/21673641927418199/

 Learning the Pledge of Allegiance and facts about the American flag:

Our first day of Math Calendar:

 More Math Calendar activities for Brynn:

Goldfish crackers in fish cups for snack:

O'fish'ally learning the importance of serving others as we deliver homemade zucchini cake to our neighbors:

Reading The Story of Ping by Marjorie Flack and Kurt Wiese, discussing the illustrations, and practicing water color skills:

 The final masterpiece for Brynn:

The final masterpiece for Clare:

What a powerful illustration of how two kiddos can take the same exact assignment connected to the same piece of literature and allow their creativity to produce two very different final products!

Lunch served on fish plates!

 Read aloud!

More read aloud to connect with our fish theme:

Modifying a Math lesson to correlate with our fish theme and the story of Rainbow Fish.  Rather than compare measurements of various strips of paper, we compared sizes of fish and organized them from tiny fish to BIG fish:

Making their very own Rainbow Fish:

Culminating the school day's learning with a game of ABC "GO FISH!"