Mayflower Academy began its first day with one student, my son Alex. We began the day with the Pledge and a prayer. Then, we had Table Time in the dining room. Today Alex played with PlayDoh, and he used a template to decorate a birthday cake. He did a nice job creating dots and snakes to make the decorations and candles. He was ready to stop after about 10 minutes, so I had him put the PlayDoh back into the right containers. (Table Time gave me a chance to get Emily dressed and fed.)

Next we all went downstairs. I put Emily down to play in the toy area while Alex got settled at his desk. While I got ready, Alex practiced writing his name as small as possible. It still filled the entire dry erase board, but each attempt was better. Alex enjoyed using the squeegie to clean the board. Next, we reviewed Alex's name, address, phone number, and our memory verse for the week (Gen 1:1). For our craft and OT time, we illustrated the memory verse. Alex cut strips of blue construction paper, and then tore the strips into large square. He then glued these squares on the top half of a white sheet. Then he cut 3 strips of green paper and glued then on the bottom half of the white sheet. (By this time, he was getting very tired and resisting directions.) We finished his project by lableing the blue half "sky" and the green "half" grass. As we learn more about Creation, we will continue with the other days. Alex cleaned up his desk, and then we all headed outside for recess and PE.