Today was the first day of school for Cimeron. She is in a 7th/8th grade class. The first day went fine... but took up a lot of my time. I took her to school and got her registered at 8 am, then at 3 went back for a long conference with the teachers, nurse and principal. I hope we can settle down and have a nice quiet school year now... well... maybe for me but not for the teachers... they looked so tired at the end of the first day.

Anyhow, because I spent so much time on Cimeron's school adventure, I didn't get to do as much with Aaron as I had hoped. The good news is that what we did together went much better than I expected. He was enthusiastic about the unit studies I've planned and wanted to get right into studying the Klamath Forest map. We will be going over that carefully. Last night I experimented with scanning part of it into digital format and doing that, I could see more and read it more clearly. There's so much to explore! Mines, botany, roads, creeks... there's just so much out there.

Also we played Rummikub together and he was much better at it than last time we tried, which was probably about a year or more ago. He enjoyed the game and it was good for simple math, making sets, and all that good stuff. I consider it a warm-up activity for what comes next. I have lots of math materials here to choose from.

Aside from that, we didn't get much done. I'm disappointed, but maybe am expecting too much from the first day of homeschool. It is kind of neat that he and I will get so much one-on-one time and I'm glad he still wants to homeschool even though his big sister chose to do something different this year.

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