First Day of School

First day of school at the new charter school - Early Light Academy. There is no grass, no cafeteria, and the school looks like a prison; but James has now learned the 7 principals of becoming a leader, Anna has discovered a new found love for Ancient Greece (resulting in a trip to the library for several books on the subject), and Emily has discovered the horrors of slavery in early American History. My kids are so excited to go to school and love the math, history, science, music teachers and classes. Anna has even discovered why there aren't any unicorns about - Shel Silverstein wrote about it and Mr. Goff (the music teacher with a banjo-which incidentally was first formed from animal byproducts and some parts of a tree, as learned by Anna) sings about it. Apparently it was Noah's fault - still working on separating fact from fiction. I believe enrolling in this school was a good thing. It is defiantly worth the drive, it's only 10 minutes away, but when you add up the drive plus the wait - day after day - it is a lot of time spent in the car.