First Day of School!

So back to school started for most people today. It feels a little strange still that I am not taking any classes. But it is really good that I get to focus on Alan and work on the next chapter in my life. Alan is still struggling developmentally in some areas, so we're still doing home school for now: working out of a workbook as well as doing some activities I get online. Today, we got off to a good start working with a magnetic calender he got for his birthday and talking about September and days, months, and years. He got to mark off Labor Day as a holiday for yesterday's date and for today, we marked "first day of school". We also already talked about Michael's birthday that's coming up and marked that off so we'll do a countdown as he is very interested in who's birthday is when nowadays. We also went through the alphabet several times because he struggles with alphabet order and recognizing some letters and he doesn't quite grasp the phonics angle yet with how letters sound. We went over some numbers next and he seems to understand a bit better the differences between 0 and 10 and all the numbers in between! We also did some greater than or less than and he did REALLY well with that! We have a budding math wiz in the family here it seems! We also talked briefly about nutrition and food groups as he is very interested right now with what's in his food and how and why it's good for him and helps his body, like yesterday he asked how cheese was good for him. So that's all for the first day!