First day of school!

I didn't have a chance to write about this on September 1, so I'll do it now.  September 1 was Jaan's first day of school!  That's a big holiday--Day of Knowledge--in this part of the world, so we did our own family celebration of starting homeschooling.  Will asked if I was going to make Jaan wear a big white bow on his head. No, I skipped that part (no black suit either), but we had a great day anyway.  While Raia and Asya napped, Jaan and I walked back from the dacha in the rain.  It was fun to have our first day of fall-ish weather at such an appropriate time!  And then we made a pumpkin pie together.  I called it a cooking lesson, but it was also an important object lesson that I hope we'll look back on throughout the year.  We walked into the kitchen, I said, "Make a pie!" and then supposedly sat down to watch him do it.  He stood there for a minute then said that he didn't know how.  Ah, yes.   I asked if he would listen carefully to me telling him how to do it.  He agreed, and I must say that he did a beautiful job!  As he worked, we talked about how this lesson applied to all of the schooling ahead of us.  Then he washed the dishes, decorated the table, and we had a very special tea.










(I took the graphic at the top from a Wikipedia article.)